Events
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture | Anna Marta Marini (JFKI Humboldt Fellow): "Ethnoracial Borderscapes, Latinx Assimilationism and Anti-Immigrant Sentiments in US Cinema"
Location: John F Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Conversation with the author Doug Woodham
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340
Taylan Alpkaya at the Social Sciences Research Colloquium
Taylan Alpkaya (Uni Mannheim)
Location: Raum 201 John F. Kennedy Institute, Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin
Lecture Series "gender, sexuality, power" | Joanna Arnow (Filmmaker + DAAD Berlin Fellow) - Conversation with Madita Oeming
Location: Großer Hörsaal (R B.001) Arnimallee 22 14195 Berlin
Inaugural Ernst Fraenkel Lecture | Brook Thomas (UC Irvine): "Birthright Citizenship, Ltd.: The Controversy over Trump’s Executive Order 14610”
Location: Großer Hörsaal (Raum B.001) Arnimallee 22
Rüdiger Bachmann at the Research Seminar Economics
Location: Freie Universität Berlin Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft Boltzmannstraße 20, 14195 Berlin Kaminzimmer, room 202
Lecture Series "gender, sexuality, power" | Birte Wege (FU Berlin): Staging Identity in American Theater: Two Case Studies
Location: Großer Hörsaal (R B.001) Arnimallee 22 14195 Berlin
Research Colloquium Literature/ Culture | Renae Watchman (McMaster University / Mercator Fellow, Universität Potsdam): “Re-storying Indigenous Identity Claims in Literary and Creative Arts.”
Location: John F Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Sven Hartmann at the Social Sciences Research Colloquium
Sven Hartmann (Uni Trier)
Location: Raum 201 John F. Kennedy Institute, Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin
Lecture Series "gender, sexuality, power" | Maaza Mengiste (Wesleyan University, Author + American Academy Berlin Fellow): Author Reading and Discussion
Location: Großer Hörsaal (R B.001) Arnimallee 22 14195 Berlin
Research Colloquium Literature/ Culture | Günter Leypoldt (Universität Heidelberg):“Literature and Networks: A Socio-Institutional Perspective on Literary History”
Location: John F Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Lecture Series "gender, sexuality, power" | Elahe Haschemi Yekani + Anne Potjans (HU Berlin: “What rises up within, between us?”: Race and Intersectionality in Literary Studies
Location: Großer Hörsaal (R B.001) Arnimallee 22 14195 Berlin
Research Colloquium Literature/ Culture | Simon Strick (Independent Scholar):“On Fascistization, or American Culture as Bad Object”
Location: John F Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Lecture Series "gender.sexuality, power" | Annelot Prins (Independent Researcher):"Billionaire Aesthetics: Taylor Swift, Labor Extremism, and the Cultural Politics of Work and Power"
Location: Großer Hörsaal (R B.001) Arnimallee 22 14195 Berlin
Research Colloquium Literature/ Culture | Mark Rifkin (University at Buffalo):“Indigenous Erotics, Leaky Bodies, and Grounded Relations: Queer Native Placemaking in Joshua Whitehead’s Jonny Appleseed”
Location: John F Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Lecture Series "gender, sexuality, power" | Anna Marta Marini (Humboldt Fellow, FU Berlin): "Disposable Lives, Ethnoracialized Bodies and Genderscapes on the U.S.-Mexican Border"
Location: Großer Hörsaal (R B.001) Arnimallee 22 14195 Berlin
Research Colloquium Literature/ Culture | Christa Dierksheide (University of Virginia) & Nicholas Guyatt (Cambridge University): “Jefferson’s Wolf: A Founding Father’s Troubling Answer to the Problem of Slavery”
Location: John F Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Conference "Dilemmas of Interdependence"
Location: JFKI for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 340
Research Colloquium Literature/ Culture | Jennifer Fleissner (University of Chicago): “The Recalcitrant Self: From Collectivity to Interdependence”
Location: John F Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 340
Lecture Series "gender, sexuality, power" | Nathalie Rennhack (FU Berlin):“I would descend with celebrity to posterity” - Female Authorship and Authority in the Early Republic
Location: Großer Hörsaal (R B.001) Arnimallee 22 14195 Berlin
Research Colloquium Literature/ Culture | Maria Sulimma (Universität Freiburg): “Trivial Pursuits: Narrative, Leisure, and the Gentrifying City”
Location: John F Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Julia Zimmermann at the Research Colloquium Social Sciences
Julia Zimmermann (Carlos III Madrid)
Location: Raum 201 John F. Kennedy Institute, Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin
Lecture Series “gender, sexuality, power”| Ela Przybyło (Illinois State University + Margareta-von-Brentano Zentrum, FU Berlin): "Queer Little Splinters Everywhere: Asexual Challenges to Sex Scarcity Research and Queer Theory’s Continued Investment i
Location: Großer Hörsaal (R B.001) Arnimallee 22 14195 Berlin
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture | Shane Denson (Stanford University): “Art & Artifice, or: What AI Means for Aesthetics.”
Location: John F Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Lecture Series "gender.sexuality, power" | Ester Micalizzi (University of Turin + Margareta-von-Brentano Zentrum, FU Berlin): tba
Location: Großer Hörsaal (R B.001) Arnimallee 22 14195 Berlin
Research Colloquium Literature/ Culture | Stefanie Schäfer (Universität Mannheim):“Fact & Fiction, Fashion & Feminism: Towards a Critical Study of the First Lady”
Location: John F Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Lecture Series "gender, sexuality, power" | Jeannine DeLombard (University of California): "Wife, Daughter, Spinster, Litigant: Early Black Civil Rights Activists"Santa Barbara): "
Location: Großer Hörsaal (R B.001) Arnimallee 22 14195 Berlin
Research Colloquium Literature/ Culture | Hunter Hargraves (California State University, Fullerton): “Democracy Dies in the Edit: American Tribalism and Late-Stage Reality Television”
Location: John F Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Lecture Series "gender, sexuality, power" | Alexis Pauline Gumbs (Poet + Activist):tba
Location: Großer Hörsaal (R B.001) Arnimallee 22 14195 Berlin
Research Colloquium Literature/ Culture | Nicole Waller (Universität Potsdam). “Posthumanism, Indigenous Studies, and Black Studies on Turtle Island: Conversations and Incommensurabilities”
Location: John F Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Lecture Series "gender, sexuality, power" | Film Screening “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed “ (dir. Joanna Arnow)
Location: Großer Hörsaal (R B.001) Arnimallee 22 14195 Berlin
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture | Florian Sedlmeier (Universität Hamburg):“Free Indirect Positions: Sebastian Barry’s Historical Novels”
Location: John F Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Lecture Series "gender, sexuality, power" | Helen Gibson (FU Berlin): "Reproductive Justice as Anti-Fascist Practice"
Location: Großer Hörsaal (R B.001) Arnimallee 22 14195 Berlin
Freya Rubel at the Annual Conference of the Economic History Society
Location: London School of Economics and Political Science
Environmental Shocks and Marriage Formation: Evidence from the Dust Bowl
Location: Universidad Carlos III in GETAFE (Calle Madrid nº 135; Edificio (Building) 18, Carmen Martín Gaite) Room 18.1.A.07
Postponed: End of Term Party 2026
Location: JFK-I, Lansstr. 7-9, 2nd floor
Lecture Series S16: Wrap-Up and Overview
Location: Gr. Hörsaal (Raum B.001) (Arnimallee 22)
Lecture Series S15: Frank Kelleter (FU Berlin): ”Theorizing Loss, Losing Theory: Styles of Coping in the Elegiac Humanities, 2008-2025"
Location: Gr. Hörsaal (Raum B.001) (Arnimallee 22)
Lecture Series S14: Giacomo Tagiuri (University of Amsterdam): “The Governance of Loss”
Location: Gr. Hörsaal (Raum B.001) (Arnimallee 22)
Lecture Series S13: Sherry Lee Linkon (Georgetown University): “Black Struggle and Resilience: LaToya Ruby Frazier’s Portraits of Deindustrialized Communities”
Location: Gr. Hörsaal (Raum B.001) (Arnimallee 22)
Lecture Series S12: Stefanie Müller (FU Berlin): “Climate Change Memoirs”
Location: Different venue: Henry Ford Bau Hörsaal A Garystr. 35-37
Lecture Series S11: Tobias Becker (University of Heidelberg): “The Politics of Nostalgia and the Poverty of Theory”
Location: Gr. Hörsaal (Raum B.001) (Arnimallee 22)
Lecture Series 10: Arlie Russel Hochschildtl (University of California, Berkeley): “Loss, Shame and the Right’s Narrative of Stolen Pride”
Location: ONLINE via Webex Please not different time and place.
CANCELED - Lecture Series S09: Heike Paul (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg): “Lost Cause-Sentimentalism and the Rise of Right-Wing Populism”
Location: Gr. Hörsaal (Raum B.001) (Arnimallee 22)
Guest Lecture: Steven Sarson
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institute Lansstraße 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 319
Lecture Series S08: Martin Lüthe (FU Berlin): “Playing Loss and Losing Play? Digital Games as Affective Agents of Loss”
Location: Gr. Hörsaal (Raum B.001) (Arnimallee 22)
Lecture Series S07: Christian Lammert (FU Berlin): “Reconfiguring Welfare States: A Dynamic Approach to Loss in North America and Western Europe”
Location: Gr. Hörsaal (Raum B.001) (Arnimallee 22)
Workshop: "Disconnect: When Music Excludes and Divides"
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien, Room 319 Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin
Lecture Series S06: Rebecca Elliott (London School of Economics): "W(h)ither the Sympathetic State? The Dismantling of the Disaster Safety Net in the United States"
Location: Gr. Hörsaal (Raum B.001) (Arnimallee 22)
Lecture Series S05: Jacob Hacker (American Academy Fellow): “Inequality, Insecurity, and America’s Democratic Crisis”
Location: Gr. Hörsaal (Raum B.001) (Arnimallee 22)
Reflecting on 50 Years of Feminist Media Studies: Join a Workshop with Leading Scholars
Location: JFKI, Room 203 (Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin)
Lecture Series S04: Lora Anne Viola (FU Berlin): “The Politics of Loss in US Foreign Policy and the Undoing of Multilateralism”
Location: Gr. Hörsaal (Raum B.001) (Arnimallee 22)
Max Steinhardt at the housing policy conference "Bezahlbar Wohnen!"
Location: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Haus 1, Berlin
Max Steinhardt at the housing policy conference "Bezahlbar Wohnen!"
Location: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Haus 1, Berlin
Serial Encounters
A Symposium Celebrating Frank Kelleter’s 60th Birthday
Lecture Series S03: Discussion of Andreas Reckwitz’s "Verlust"
Location: Gr. Hörsaal (Raum B.001) (Arnimallee 22)
Lecture Series S02: Sebastian Kohl (FU Berlin): “Insuring Loss”
Location: Gr. Hörsaal (Raum B.001) (Arnimallee 22)
Lecture Series S01: Introduction: Research Questions and Projects
Location: Gr. Hörsaal (Raum B.001) (Arnimallee 22)
Max Steinhardt at the Economics and Politics of Irregular Migration Workshop of the HWWI
Location: HWWI, Mönkedamm 9, 20457 Hamburg
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
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
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
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