Events
Orientation days for Bachelor and Master in North American Studies
This year's orientation week at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies will take place on the following dates: BA Program: Wednesday, October 8 th , from 10 am to 4 pm MA Program: Thursday, October 9 th , from 10 am 4 pm Topics related to the BA and MA programs: Friday - October 10 th , from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm Newly enrolled students can just attend the orientation days without prior registration or notification.
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room340
Max Steinhardt at the Economics and Politics of Irregular Migration Workshop of the HWWI
Location: HWWI, Mönkedamm 9, 20457 Hamburg
Conference "Dilemmas of Interdependence
Location: JFKI for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 340
Research Colloquium Social Science: – Hans Joas (HU Berlin/University of Chicago) Book presentation of “Universalismus”
Location: Room 201 John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture S13 - Katharina Gerund (University of Zurich):"The Waiting Wives of the Forever Wars: Military Spouses in Post-9/11 US Culture"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Research Colloquium Social Science – Alexandra Scacco (WZB): “Anatomy of a Riot” (book presentation)
Location: Room 201 John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture S12 - Julia Faisst (TU Dortmund): "Disappearing Children: Border Narratives of Underage Migration"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Lecture by Carl-Ludwig Holtrerich: Edward A. Tenenbaum and the Deutschmark
Location: Room 340 John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien Lansstraße 7-9 14195 Berlin
Guest Lecture Series "US Foreign Policy in Turbulent Times" - Andreas Heinemann-Grüder (Univerity of Bonn):"What Determines a War's End? Insights from the War in Ukraine"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340
Book Discussion – Robert Gooding-Williams (Yale University): Democracy and Beauty: The Political Aesthetics of W. E. B. Du Bois
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Lansstr. 7–9, 14195 Berlin, Room 203
Our next graduation ceremony
July 4, 2025
Location: Ceremony: Arnimallee 22, room B.001 following little reception: Lansstr. 7-9, room 319
Research Colloquium Social Science – Kathia Serrano-Velarde (Heidelberg): “I just don’t give a shit anymore” – Future Oriented Career Agency and Precarity at the Postdoc Stage
Location: Room 201 John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture S11 - Christa Buschendorf (University of Frankfurt): "Artists and Intellectuals in Times of Repression: A Symposium on 'Art and Morals' at Smith College in 1953"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Cyborg Writing Workshop for Students
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Seminar Room: 340
Research Colloquium Social Science - Erdem Yörük (Koç University, University of Oxford): The Politics of the Welfare State in Turkey | University of Michigan Press
Location: Room 201 John F. Kennedy Institut Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture S10 - Russ Castronovo (University of Wisconsin-Madison): “Frozen Subjectivity: Vulnerability and Aesthetics at the End of the World.”
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Guest Lecture Series "US Foreign Policy in Turbulent Times" - Rohan Mukherjee (London School of Economics): "Rising Powers and International Order in the Age of Trump"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340
Terra Symposium 2025: Queer Latinx Art
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Seminarraum 340
Research Colloquium Social Science – Lino Wehrheim (Universität Regensburg): TBA
Location: Room 201 John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture S09 - Katja Sarkowsky (University of Augsburg): "Writing Rivers: Water, Relationality, and Political Critique"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Guest Lecture Series "US Foreign Policy in Turbulent Times" - Rachel Tausendfreund (DGAP): "The New Right Foreign Policies"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340
Research Colloquium Social Science - Christopher Olk (FU Berlin): The political economy of national oil and gas companies in the global ‘energy transition’
Location: Room 201 John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture S08 - Alexis Salas (Terra Professor): “Plant Papi Politics: Queer Latinx Artists Re-grounding Nature"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Guest Lecture Series "US Foreign Policy in Turbulent Times" - Peter Trubowitz (London School of Economics): "Trump 2.0: Strategy or Chaos?"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340
Research Colloquium Social Science – Bernhard Reinsberg (University of Glasgow): Revisiting the political effectiveness of scapegoating: evidence from the International Monetary Fund
Location: Room 201 John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture S07 - Werner Sollors (Harvard University): "Approaches to American Literature in Cosmopolitan and Ethnic Contexts"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Guest Lecture Series "US Foreign Policy in Turbulent Times" -Hilde Eliassen Restad (Oslo Nye University College): "The Foreign Policy of the Right-Wing Counterrevolution"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340
Workshop "Historical Comparative Perspectives on Insurance", May 29-30, 2025
Location: Room 319 John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture S06 - Andrew Hartman (Illinois State University): "Karl Marx in America"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Guest Lecture Series "US Foreign Policy in Turbulent Times" - Catherine Lu (McGill University):"Can the U.S. and Canada Ever Be Friends? Inequality, Solidarity, and Political Friendship""
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340
PhD student workshop “Publishing in Journals” with Klaus F. Zimmermann
Location: Graduate School of North American Studies Lansstraße 5, 14195 Berlin
Research Colloquium Social Science - Ma Ming, Genia Kostka (FU Berlin): Credible Information, Strategic Signal, or Both? Authoritarian-Aligned Narratives and Public Opinion
Location: Room 201 John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture S05 - Sianne Ngai (University of Chicago): "Inhabiting Error: From “Last Christmas” to “Senior’s Last Hour”"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Guest Lecture Series "US Foreign Policy in Turbulent Times" - Nathalie Tocci (Istituto Affari Internazionali): "Navigating Contradiction: Europe in an Open-Closed World"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340
Tips for Navigating the Economic Job Market
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstraße 7-9 14195 Berlin ROOM 201
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture S04 - Heike Paul (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg): "From Lost Colony to Lost Cause: American Beginnings Revisited"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Guest Lecture Series "US Foreign Policy in Turbulent Times" - Desh Girod (Georgetown University): "Frozen Assets: Greenland, Canada, and Trump's Foreign Policy"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture S03 - Birte Christ (University of Tübingen): "Why Helmut Read Hemingway : American Authors and the Post-War (Re-)Construction of a Broad German Reading Public"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Guest Lecture Series "US Foreign Policy in Turbulent Times" - Gideon Rose (American Academy/ Council on Foreign Relations):"What's Next for European Strategy?"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture S02 - Dustin Breitenwischer (University of Hamburg): "You just take a look at him once in a while": Ralph Ellison’s Frederick Douglass
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Guest Lecture Series "US Foreign Policy in Turbulent Times" - Jonathan D. Caverley (Masachusetts Institute of Technology /U.S. Naval War College): "Europe Can Manage, but not Avoid, Defense Industrial Dependence""
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture S01 - Marco Caracciolo (Ghent University): "Algorithms, Gamification, and the Ambiguities of Play in Richard Powers’s Playground"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Project Workshop "The Economics of Overcrowding"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstraße 7-9 14195 Berlin
Research Colloquium Social Science: Jayme Gomes (FU Berlin): The Rise and Fall of Theory in Sociology? A Sociology of Theoretical Knowledge
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Brown Bag Lecture "Canada and the Trump Challenge"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Room 203 Lansstraße 7-9 14195 Berlin
Research Colloquium Social Science: Dorothee Bohle (Vienna University): Gendering Growth Models
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Lecture Series: Small Worlds: Literature, Performativity, and Economic Modeling
Location: FU Berlin, Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Research Colloquium Social Science: Charlotte Bartels (DIW, Universität Leipzig): Inequality and Voting: Evidence from Germany
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Ringvorlesung: The future of German-American relations: opportunities and challenges under the new US administration
Location: FU Berlin, Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Research Colloquium Social Science: Katharina Sass (University of Bergen): Admission Impossible - School Choice in European Cities
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Lora Anne Viola at the Short Talk "USA-Between Hyteria and Reason" with Georg Diez
Location: Humboldt Lab in the Humboldt Forum Schloßplatz 1, 10178 Berlin, Entrance Passage 1st floor, exhibition „After Nature“ in German language.
Inauguration Watch Party and Discussion
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Lecture Series: Geoeconomics and US trade policy
Location: FU Berlin, Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Lecture Series: The Political Economy of Protests and Social Movements
Location: FU Berlin, Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Research Colloquium Social Science: Tim White (AvH Fellow, FU Berlin): When Venture Capitalists Become Landlords: The Rise and Fall of the Co-living Start-up
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Lecture Series: The Impact of Social Media on US Politics
Location: FU Berlin, Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Lecture Series: Monstrous Monopolies: Corporations in US Legal and Literary Fictions
Location: FU Berlin, Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Guest lecture - Michael Kimmage (Catholic University of America): "What Is It with Russia and the United States? Explaining a Recurring Conflict"
Location: JFK-I Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 340
Research Colloquium Social Science: Alexander Kentikelenis (Bocconi University): Book presentation: The Making of the Washington Consensus: The US, Global Governance, and the Down of Neoliberal Globalization
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Lecture Series: Reproductive Justice and (Racial) Capitalism: Grand Midwives as Political Economic Theorists
Location: FU Berlin, Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Mike Cowburn (Viadrina University/ Frankfurt Oder): Party Transformation in Congressional Primaries: Faction and Ideology in the Twenty-first Century
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 340
Research Colloquium Social Science: Barbara Fritz (FU Berlin): Global financial Safety Net
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
94th Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association
Location: Washington D.C.
Jordan Tama (American University): "Prospects for Foreign Policy Bipartisanship after the U.S. Election”
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Lecture Series: Unintended deportation outcomes: Lessons from US deportations to Latin America
Location: FU Berlin, Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Research Colloquium Social Science: Bence Kováts (European University Institute, Florence): 'Each Child is a New Outpost': Pronatalism in European Housing Policies in a Long View
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201