Events
Lecture Series. Cameron Seglias (FU Berlin) will talk about "Slavery, Colonial Crisis, and the Biopolitics of Containment in Eighteenth-Century America"
Location: Online (via the Cisco based Software WebEx events). Event address: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/onstage/g.php?MTID=e2ba9f3bd82c9d19bf0f4c9274c5d50d4
Lecture Series: Bert Hoffmann (FU Berlin/GIGA Berlin) will talk about "How yellow fever and malaria made America great - and why we know so little about it"
Location: Online (via the Cisco based Software WebEx events) Event address: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/onstage/g.php?MTID=e0be36cd139517be564326ff8103ba85f
Presentation by Jan Hansen (HU Berlin) on "Urban Infrastructure and Everyday Life in Los Angeles, 1860–1940”
Location: WebEx Online Event
Lecture Series: Eva Horn (Universität Wien) will talk about "Pandemic as Political Phantasy"
Location: Online (via the Cisco based Software WebEx events) Event address: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/onstage/g.php?MTID=e5f17bf3a56bce525036a9afac64a3565
Lecture Series: Ana-Constantina Frost (FU Berlin) will talk about "Disaster, Diseases and Displacement: Migration Control in the 21st Century"
Location: Online (via the Cisco based Software WebEx events) Event address: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/onstage/g.php?MTID=e35f8032505562f51da26e3476987bb5c
Salvador Santino Regilme (Leiden University) will talk about "From the 9/11 Terror Attacks to the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States and Beyond: The Politics of Dehumanization and Human Rights "
Location: Online via the Cisca based Software Webex events. Event address: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/onstage/g.php?MTID=ea61e948cf6077da7d39acbdd71f663b8
Lecture Series: David Getsy (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) will talk about "Viral Sites: Scott Burton’s Sculpture, Undetectability, and Public Art in the First Decade of the AIDS Crisis"
Location: Online (via the Cisco based Software WebEx events) Event address: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/onstage/g.php?MTID=ee23aba73ffafe15f6ac0402602b633ae
Lecture Series: Betsy Leimbigler (FU Berlin) will talk about "Power, Inclusion, and the politics of COVID-19: Policy responses”
Location: Online (via the Cisco based Software WebEx events) Event address: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/onstage/g.php?MTID=e2062da461df5b2bea86478f90bd57324
Lecture Series: Birte Wege (FU Berlin) will talk about "Drawing Fire: War Journalism meets Graphic Narrative in Emmanuel Guibert's The Photographer"
Location: Online (via the Cisco based Software WebEx events) Event address: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/onstage/g.php?MTID=e7d5e2c9af27304e3a25d4200a19d7c3e
Lecture Series: Harald Wenzel (FU Berlin) will talk about "Communicating the Dust Bowl Crisis. Disaster Management, Compassion and the Media"
Location: Online (via the Cisca based Software Webex events). Event address: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/onstage/g.php?MTID=ecfe4832ee1ee9f1b6cb75384edf2711b
RSE Lecture: “Impulse Purchases, Gun Ownership and Homicides” by David Schindler (Tilburg University)
Location: Room 202 (Kaminzimmer) Boltzmannstraße 20 14195 Berlin
Presentation by Elisabeth Piller on "Rewriting the History of the Great War: Humanitarianism as a History of Failure: Herbert Hoover and The Commission for Relief in Poland”
Location: WebEx Online Event
Berlin Talks by FUBis and FU-BEST withLora Anne Viola and Christian Lammert
Location: Online via erbex events. Event address: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/onstage/g.php?MTID=e75f70bce239e73ae08c52282576eff74 Event password: BjUeYrZS976
Lecture Series: Daniel Dieckelmann (FU Berlin) will talk about "Recurring Catastrophes: Causes and Consequences of Financial Crises in North America"
Location: Online (via the Cisco based Software WebEx events). Event address: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/onstage/g.php?MTID=e75bd09e6296efdfa4f47c90d6e948379
Susanne Strätling (FU Berlin): Kulturtechniken der (Corona-)Krise: Distanzierung, Isolierung, Annullierung“
Location: The talk was recorded and is available under the following link: https://www.oei.fu-berlin.de/institut/mediothek/Grundlagenvorlesung/index.html
Lecture Series: Gareth Davies (Oxford University) will talk about "Understanding the Trump Administration’s Response to COVID - Can History Help?"
Location: Online (via the Cisco based Software WebEx) Event address: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/onstage/g.php?MTID=ef7182af08e84f1c9c8f8d9869a178c16
Ringvorlesung Guest Speaker: Gareth Davies (University College of London)
Location: Webex Online Event
Democracy and Its Limits - Open Online Conference
"Democracy and Its Limits: The United States in Perspective" is the 2020 entry of the annual conference of The Political Science Section of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS) also knowns as the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA) .
Location: Online Conference; please register beforehand.
Lecture Series: Disaster and Disease in North America
Location: Online. Event address: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/onstage/g.php?MTID=e7aaced9fc6339608e0fe39587678686e
Orientierungswoche BA / MA Nordamerika Studien WS20/21
This semester's Orientation Week / Studies Introduction for the BA and MA in North American Studies at the John F. Kennedy Institute will be held on October 26th.
Prof. Viola als Redner bei Konferenz »Europa. USA. Geteilte Zukunft?«
Lora Viola will be a speaker at this years Bad Homburg Conference , giving her insights into the current US foreign policy at the panel "Transatlantic Security and Foreign Policy under Stress" .
African Atlantic Research Group
Location: Graduate School for North American Studies Lansstr. 5, 14195 Berlin Seminarraum 2
Lecture by Prof. Vittorio Valli on his new book "The American Economy from Roosevelt to Trump"
Location: Room 319, John-F.-Kennedy-Institut, Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin
Ringvorlesung: Prof. Dr. Florian Sedlmeier (Universität Hamburg) - W. D. Howells and the Genres of Political Critique
Location: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin
Institute Board Meeting (alternative date) *cancelled*
Location: Room 203
Prof. Steinhardt presents at the WZB on "The Impact of Xenophobic Violence on the Integration of Immigrants"
Location: WZB, Reichpietschufer 50, 10785 Berlin, Raum B002/003
Ringvorlesung: Prof. Dr. Evangelia Kindinger (HU Berlin) - The Local Color is Mountain Pink: Appalachian Femininity and Popular Culture
Location: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin
FU Review Winter Reading 'Current Works'
Location: JFK Institute, Room 201
Ringvorlesung: Prof. Dr. Joshua Shannon (University of Maryland, Terra Guest Professor) - The Future is a Rectangle: Modernist University Architecture and the Human Being
Location: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin
History Research Colloquium: Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon (University of Iceland) will give a talk on "The Cultural Existance of Few Barefoot Historians in the Icelandic Peasant Society in the 19th Century: Biography, Egodocuments and Microhistory"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Thinking Through Sex - On Screen & on the Page
Madita Oeming in Conversation with US Author Saskia Vogel
Location: JFKI Caféte (basement) Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin
Ringvorlesung: Prof. Dr. Elahe Haschemi Yekani (HU Berlin) - Representing Trans on TV: Between Hypervisibility and Backlash
Location: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin
History Research Colloquium: Martin Lutz (Humboldt University of Berlin) will give a talk on "Anabaptist Faith and Capitalist Ventures. Mennonites, Amish and Hutterites in the Modern American Economy, 1865-1970"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Ringvorlesung: Prof. Dr. Sönke Kunkel (FU Berlin, JFKI) - The Picture State and Its Innovators: How U.S. Presidents have Shaped, Remade, and Transformed the Culture of American Democracy since 1945
Location: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin
Institute Board Meeting
Location: Room 203
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Public Lecture on "Slavery's Old and New Materialisms" by Seth Rockman
Location: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin IGK Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History Georgenstraße 23, 6th Floor, 10117 Berlin
Ringvorlesung: Prof. Dr. Birte Wege (FU Berlin, JFKI) - Anna Deavere Smith's Verbatim Theatre
Location: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin
Prof. Andy Ferrara, University of Pittsburgh gives a talk on "WWI Anti-German Sentiment and Economic Growth in U.S. Counties"
Location: Room 319 John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Freie Universität Berlin Lansstraße 7-9 14195 Berlin
Ringvorlesung: Prof. Dr. Christoph Raetzsch (Aarhus University) - Smart City Visions in the United States and Europe: From Vertical to Horizontal Spaces
Location: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin
Lecture Series: Prof. Dr. Christoph Raetzsch (Aarhus University) will talk about "Smart City Visions in the United States and Europe: From Vertical to Horizontal Spaces
Location: Freie Universität Berlin Habelschwerdter Allee 45 Hs 1b Hörsaal
Institute Board Meeting (Curriculum Planning)
Location: Room 203
Evelyn Kreutzer (Northwestern University) - De-Throning Beethoven: Re-Mediations of European Classical Music Traditions in American TV of the Cold-War Era
Location: GSNAS Seminar Room
Ringvorlesung: Dr. Maria Sulimma (Universität Duisburg-Essen) - Killing Eve… and the Planet – One Flight at a Time: Popular Culture and Aviation
Location: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin
Dear Canada, Welcome to the world of European fragmented politics
A guest lecture by the Ambassador to Germany (Canada) and Special Envoy to the European Union, Stéphane Dion, PhD.
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 340
History Research Colloquium: Olivier Burtin (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) will give a talk on "A Nation of Veterans: War, Citizenship, and the Welfare State in the Modern United States"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Ringvorlesung: Maxi Albrecht, M.A. (FU Berlin, GSNAS) - Speculative Survival in the 21st Century - Zombies, Hunger Games, and Neoliberal Intelligence Politics
Location: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin
Lecture - Winfried Siemerling (University of Waterloo): "Climate Emergencies: Anthropocene, Race, Literature"
Location: Raum 340 Lansstraße 7-9 14195 Berlin
Graduation Ceremony 2019
Location: Seminaris Campus Hotel
Ringvorlesung: Dr. Thomas Greven (Privatdozent, FU Berlin, JFKI) - Beyond Superheroes: Comics and American Politics
Location: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin
Institute Board Meeting
Location: Room 203
Comparing the Divided America of the Turbulent 1960s to the Divided America Today
A Guest Lecture by Jim Willis , Professor Emeritus of Journalism at Azusa Pacific University
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Rebekah Ahrendt (Utrecht University) will give a talk on "Ambassadress Orfea, or, Why Condoleeza Rice's Piano Matters"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Ringvorlesung: Madita Oeming, M.A. (Universität Paderborn) - The Politics of Pathologizing Porn
Location: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin
A Reading and Conversation with Joy Castro
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Raum 201
History Research Colloquium: Ed Bryan (University of Cambridge) will give a talk on “Let them come to Berlin”: Critically Examining President John F. Kennedy’s Visit to West Berlin on 26 June 1963 as a Geopolitical Event
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
History Research Colloquium: Professor Selma Leydesdorff (University of Amsterdam) will give a talk on “Development of oral history from ‘factfinding’ to questions about representation and memory”
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Hearings for the Junior Professorship in Economics with a focus on economic policy and/or economic history of North America
Location: Room 319 John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstraße 7-9 14195 Berlin
Ringvorlesung: Prof. Dr. Christina Meyer (FU Berlin, JFKI) - Comic Figures, Comics Aesthetics, and American Popular Culture
Location: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin
Panel: Don't Blame the Working Class: Understanding Class Politics and Racism in the Trump Era
A panel with Thomas Greven (JFKI), Sherry Linkon und John Russo (both Georgetown University)
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Marius Kleinknecht (Freie Universität Berlin) will give a talk on "Our Lives, Our Fortunes and Sacred Honor: American Foreign Policy with the Barbary States"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
History Research Colloquium: Ian Giocondo (Utrecht University) will give a talk on "Millennials, Money, and Music on the Radio"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Ringvorlesung: Annelot Prins, M.A. (FU Berlin, GSNAS) - "I Learn From Beyoncé": Whiteness, "Wokeness" and the Cultural Work of Black Superstardom
Location: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin
Prof. Siep Stuurman from Utrecht University NL, will give a talk on "The Soul of Neo-Liberalism: Towards a Historical Genealogy of the 'Economic'", followed by a short comment by Prof Jessica Gienow-Hecht
Location: Fabeckstraße 23-25 ('Holzlaube'), room 2.2051.
Ringvorlesung: Dr. Michael Oswald (Universität Passau) - "You are Fake News!" - Labeling the Media from the Bully Pulpit
Location: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin
Peter Wortsman A Reading from/ *Stimme und Atem. Out of Breath, Out of Mind*/
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Raum 201
Thomas Schwartz (Vanderbilt) - From John McCloy to George Bush: America's Foreign Policy Establishment, European Unity, and German Reunification, 1945-1990
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Ringvorlesung: Prof. Dr. Curd Knüpfer (FU Berlin, JFKI) - Hadda be Playin' on YouTube: Fragmentation & Consolidation in the American Media System
Location: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin
Institute Board Meeting
Location: Room 203
History Research Colloquium: Luc Brunet (The Open University (UK)) will give a talk on "Canada’s Second Cold War: Peace Activism, Constructive Internationalism, and Transatlantic Relations, 1978-1987"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Herman Bennett (CUNY Graduate Center): Unsteady Foundations: The Problem of 1619 in Histories of the Black Atlantic
Eröffnungsvortrag für die neuen Doktorand*innen der Graduiertenschule für Nordamerikastudien 2019
Location: Raum 340 Lansstraße 7-9 14195 Berlin
Ringvorlesung: Prof. Dr. Christina Meyer (FU Berlin, JFKI) - The Role of Women in the Newspaper & Magazine Publishing Field
Location: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin
Orientation Day 2019 - MA
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin / 9 A.M. in the Caféte; 10 A.M. onwards, in room 340
Orientation Day 2019 - BA
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin / 9 A.M. in the Caféte; 10 A.M. onwards in room 340
Conference in Jena – Weltoffen miteinander arbeiten: Interkulturelle Öffnung neu denken
Location: Uni Jena, Carl-Zeiss-Str. 3, HS 6
Summer Party at the JFK-I!
Come and join us for an evening of celebration and fun at this years JFK-I Summer Party on Friday, 12. July , starting at roughly 4pm on the parking lot of the institute!
Re: The State of the Art. On Contemporary Poetry
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 340
Research Colloquium Culture & Literature: Heike Schäfer (Pädagogische Hochschule Karlsruhe)
Location: Room 201
Madeleine Thien Reading
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Distinguished Lecture by Johannes von Moltke on July 4, 2019
Location: Room 340
“Audiovisual Performances of the Liberal Script,” Jessica Gienow-Hecht, Steffen Just, Cooperation with Excellence Cluster SCRIPTS
Steffen Just and Jessica Gienow-Hecht present some ideas on the topic "Audiovisual Performances of the Liberal Script".
Location: Freie Universität Berlin, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin Room 203
FU Review Reading
Location: JFKI Literature Department Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 340
Conference “1898 Imag(in)ing the Caribbean in the Ae of the Spanish-American War”
Location: John-F.-Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Room 340, Lansstraße 7-9, Berlin-Dahlem
History Research Colloquium: David Armitage (Harvard University)will talk about "Treaty Consciousness"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 203
Symposium: "Videographic Criticism: Aesthetics and Methods of the Video Essay"
Location: ACUD-Kino Veteranenstraße 21 Berlin
Research Colloquium Culture & Literature: Tim Lanzendörfer (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
Location: Room 201
"Poetry Talk" on Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, June 19th
Location: Location: Akademie der Künste Clubraum Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin Entrance fee: 6/4 €