Events
Lecture Series S01: Introduction: Research Questions and Projects
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 S03: Discussion of Andreas Reckwitz’s "Verlust"
Location: Gr. Hörsaal (Raum B.001) (Arnimallee 22)
Serial Encounters
A Symposium Celebrating Frank Kelleter’s 60th Birthday
Max Steinhardt at the housing policy conference "Bezahlbar Wohnen!"
Location: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Haus 1, 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)
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 S05: Jacob Hacker (American Academy Fellow): “Inequality, Insecurity, and America’s Democratic Crisis”
Location: Gr. Hörsaal (Raum B.001) (Arnimallee 22)
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 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)
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 S09: Heike Paul (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg): “Lost Cause-Sentimentalism and the Rise of Right-Wing Populism”
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.
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 S12: Stefanie Müller (FU Berlin): “Climate Change Memoirs”
Location: Different venue: Henry Ford Bau Hörsaal A Garystr. 35-37
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 S14: Giacomo Tagiuri (University of Amsterdam): “The Governance of Loss”
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 S16: Wrap-Up and Overview
Location: Gr. Hörsaal (Raum B.001) (Arnimallee 22)
Conference "Dilemmas of Interdependence
Location: JFKI for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 340
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
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
Cyborg Writing Workshop for Students
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Seminar Room: 340
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