Events
Lecture Series -S07: David Grundy (FU Berlin) "The Advanced Workers with the Anti-Imperialist Singers: You Was Marching Need to be Marchin So You Can Dance Some More Later on (1976) - Music and Revolution in the Age of Disco"
Location: ONLINE via Webex
Race, Multilateral Institutions and International Relations - S05: Siba N. Grovogui (Cornell University): No Partial Public Sympathies: Ethics of Justice and Citizenship in the African Diaspora
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 340
Graduation Ceremony of the Economics Department at Freie Universität Berlin
Location: Max-Kade-Auditorium Henry Ford Building Freie Universität Berlin Garystraße 35, 14195 Berlin
Social Science Research Colloquium: Marcin Serafin (Polish Academy of Sciences); Studying Inflation Experiences through Diaries
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R319
Race, Multilateral Institutions and International Relations - S06: Ayse Zarakol (University of Cambridge): Is the Disorder of Our Times Unprecedented?
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 340
Lecture Series -S09: Kylie Crane (University of Rostock) "Beyoncé: 'Formation‘ (2016) - #BLM and Environmental Justice“
Location: HS Anorganik, Fabeckstr. 34-36, 14195 Berlin
Lecture Series -S11: Simon Voss (FU Berlin) "Bruce Springsteen: 'The Ghost of Tom Joad' (1995) California amidst Homelessness and the Fentanyl Epidemic"
Location: HS Anorganik, Fabeckstr. 34-36, 14195 Berlin
Social Science Research Colloquium: Sascha Münnich (European University of Viadrina): Criticising Financial Capitalism: Insights from Comparable Research
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R319
Race, Multilateral Institutions and International Relations - S07: Tarak Barkawi (London School of Economics): Race and battle in the Production of the Military History: The US in Korea, 1950-51
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 340
Lecture Series -S12: Christian Lammert (FU Berlin): Oliver Anthony: Rich Men North of Richmond (2023) -- Inequality, Trust and Populist Mobilization in the United States
Location: HS Anorganik, Fabeckstr. 34-36, 14195 Berlin
Social Science Research Colloquium: Thomas Rixen (FU Berlin): Explaining Institutional Change in Global Finance
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R319
Race, Multilateral Institutions and International Relations - S08: Robert Knox (University of Liverpool): On Racial Capitalism
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 340
Lecture Series -S1:Dennis Mischke (FU Berlin/ Ada Lovelace Center für Digital Humanities) "The Decemberists – 'The Mariner's Revenge Song' (2005) - Herman Melville and Computational Literary Studies"
Location: HS Anorganik, Fabeckstr. 34-36, 14195 Berlin
Race, Multilateral Institutions and International Relations - S09: Mariam Salehi (FU Berlin): The 'Justice Industry' and Struggles For Racial Justice
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 340
Lecture Series -S12: Kira Alvarez (FU Berlin) "Leonard Bernstein: 'Kaddish' (1963) – The Making of American Classical Music Relations with Israel"
Location: HS Anorganik, Fabeckstr. 34-36, 14195 Berlin
Social Science Research Colloquium: Derek John Hattemer (University of Basel): Underwriting Autarky. Commercial Life insurance for the Masses in Interwar Germany and Italy, 1923-1939
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R319
Narratives of American Culture in Dialogue
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute, Lansstr. 7-9, 14195 Berlin Room 340
Annual Meeting of the Historians in the DGfA: Health in American History
See here for the full program.
Location: Erfurt, Augustinerkloster
Race, Multilateral Institutions and International Relations - S04: Lukas Hakelberg (FU Berlin): The Whitenes of Wealth Management: Colonial Economic Structure, Racism. and the Emergence of Tax Havens in the British Caribbean
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 340
CANCELED! Lecture Series -S06: Barbara Elias (Bowdoin College) "Alice in Chains 'Rooster' (1992): Local Allies and US Strategic Failure in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan"
Location: ONLINE via Webex
Social Science Research Colloquium: Brett Christophers (Uppsala University):Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World - GUEST: PROF. MARGIT MAYER
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R319
Lecture Series -S05: David Eisler (De Gruyter): “ Creedence Clearwater Revival: 'Fortunate Son' (1969) - Conscription and American War Fiction since Vietnam”
Location: HS Anorganik, Fabeckstr. 34-36, 14195 Berlin
Kimberly Wehle (School of Law at the University of Baltimore): Trumpism and the Fate of the Rule Law under the U.S. Constitution
Location: Online via Webex:: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin/j.php?MTID=m725f1e5bf5abda96c7588a0fd6e5853b Password: 7X3qJeqtDu3 Or hybrid: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Race, Multilateral Institutions and International Relations - S03: Ntina Tzouvala (Australian University): Racism and International Law: A Materialist Approach
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 340
Social Science Research Colloquium: Ria Wilken (FU Berlin): The (old) Housing Question? Mapping Crowding, Tenure, Rents, and Inequality in the Neighborhoods of European Cities in the Long Run
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R319
Social Science Research Colloquium: Jonas von Ciriacy-Wantrup (FU Berlin): Looking Behind the Politics of Regional Growth Models
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R319
Lecture Series -S04: Sebastian Kohl (FU Berlin) "Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: 'Our House' (1970) - A Historical Sociology of American Housing"
Location: HS Anorganik, Fabeckstr. 34-36, 14195 Berlin
Race, Multilateral Institutions and International Relations - S02: Robbie Shilliam (Johns Hopkins University): Black Studies and Security Studies: Retrieving an Intimate Relationship
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 340
Guest Lecture by Annette Gordon-Reed (Harvard): "The Enlightenment: Science, Education, Race, and the American Experiment"
Location: JFKI, room 340
Lecture Series -S03: Martin Lüthe (FU Berlin) "Boyz II Men: 'End of the Road' (1992) - Boyband Affectivity and North American Intersectionalities"
Location: HS Anorganik, Fabeckstr. 34-36, 14195 Berlin
Race, Multilateral Institutions and International Relations - S01: Zoltán Búzás (University of Notre Dame): Race and Hegemonic Delegitimation: The Sino-American Case
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 340
Social Science Research Colloquium: Tod van Gunten (University of Edinburgh): Ideology and Consensus in the American Economics Profession
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R319
Lecture Series -S02: Katharina Motyl (University of Mannheim): “‘The Maid of Monterey’ (1848) – U.S. Imperial Feminism from the Mexican-American War to the ‘War on Terror’”
Location: HS Anorganik, Fabeckstr. 34-36, 14195 Berlin
Lecture Series -S01: Welcome, Introductiom and Discussion about “Songs that Shaped our Notions of ‘North America’”
Location: Online lecture: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=mf49ec77c523d0fa33db416b7670f6301
Orientation Week Bachelor & Master in North American Studies 2023/24
This year's orientation week at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies will take place on the following dates: Bachelor: Monday & Tuesday- Oct 9 & 10 from 10 AM to 3 PM Master: Wednesday and Thursday- Oct 11 & 12 from 10 AM to 3 PM Newly enrolled students can just attend the orientation days without prior registration or notification.
A.J. Bauer (University of Alabama) giving guest lecture titled "Notes on Conservative Camp: The Perverse Pleasures of Consuming Right-Wing Media"
A.J. Bauer is an assistant professor in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media at the University of Alabama. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from New York University. He is co-editor of News on the Right: Studying Conservative News Cultures (Oxford, 2019).
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Room 340 Lansstraße 7-9 14195 Berlin
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture:Jesse Schwartz (City University of New York) will give a talk on "The Bolshevik Revolution, Racial Socialism, and US Print Culture, 1886-1924"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Gabriele Schwab (University of California, Irvine) will give a talk on "Transspecies Imaginaries"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Katrin Horn (Universität Bayreuth) will give a talk on "Bad Manners, Good Business: Society Columns in the Late Nineteenth Century"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Research Colloquium So9 -Georg Rilinger (MIT): "The social order of digital markets"
This open lecture is part of the combined research colloquium of the Political Science & Sociology Departments of the JFK-I. Please find the complete program here .
Location: JFK-I Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room: 319
Research Colloquium So9 -Georg Rilinger (MIT): "The social order of digital markets"
This open lecture is part of the combined research colloquium of the Political Science & Sociology Departments of the JFK-I. Please find the complete program here .
Location: JFK-I Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room: 319
Terra Symposium 2023: Home / Habitat
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute, Lansstr. 7-9, 14195 Berlin Room 319
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Julia Rosenbaum (Bard College/ Terra Foundation Visiting Professor 2023) will give a talk on "What Means This Carnage?”: Civil War Soldiers’ Bodies and the Army Medical Museum
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Research Colloquium So8 - Kathy Thelen (MIT): Attention Shoppers: American Retail Capitalism and the Rise of the Amazon Economy
This open lecture is part of the combined research colloquium of the Political Science & Sociology Departments of the JFK-I. Please find the complete program here .
Location: JFK-I Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room: 319
Tiffany Florvil (University of New Mexico) will hold a lecture at the FMI about "Rethinking Black Internationalisms in the late 20th Century
Location: Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut (FU Berlin) Koserstraße 20 Room A.336
Research Colloquium So8 - Kathy Thelen (MIT): Attention Shoppers: American Retail Capitalism and the Rise of the Amazon Economy
This open lecture is part of the combined research colloquium of the Political Science & Sociology Departments of the JFK-I. Please find the complete program here .
Location: JFK-I Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room: 319
GSNAS-Workshop "Communicating Research"
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Graduate School for North American Studies Seminarraum 2/3 (1st floor) Lansstraße 5 14195 Berlin
Research Colloquium So7 - Laura Flierl: "Anti-eviction struggles in Oakland and Barcelona"
This open lecture is part of the combined research colloquium of the Political Science & Sociology Departments of the JFK-I. Please find the complete program here .
Location: JFK-I Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room: 319
Research Colloquium So7 - Laura Flierl: "Anti-eviction struggles in Oakland and Barcelona"
This open lecture is part of the combined research colloquium of the Political Science & Sociology Departments of the JFK-I. Please find the complete program here .
Location: JFK-I Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room: 319
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Lara Langer Cohen (Swarthmore College) will give a talk on "The Underground Railroad’s Undergrounds"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R319
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Nattie Golubov (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) will give a talk on "The Pleasures of Reading Popular Romance Fiction"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Joel Pfister (Wesleyan University) will give a talk on "Partners in Crime: American Movies, Systemic Complicity, and the Big Picture"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Research Colloquium So5 - Dieter Plehwe (WZB): "Global Neoliberal Think Tanks and Climate Policy: The Atlas Network"
This open lecture is part of the combined research colloquium of the Political Science & Sociology Departments of the JFK-I. Please find the complete program here .
Location: JFK-I Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room: 319
Research Colloquium So5 - Dieter Plehwe (WZB): "Global Neoliberal Think Tanks and Climate Policy: The Atlas Network"
This open lecture is part of the combined research colloquium of the Political Science & Sociology Departments of the JFK-I. Please find the complete program here .
Location: JFK-I Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room: 319
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Susan Bernofsky (August-Wilhelm-von-Schlegel-Gastprofessorin für Poetik, FU Berlin) will give a talk on "Mine or Yours? Literary Translation as Creative Writing in the U.S.-American Context"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R319
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Alexandra Ganser (Universität Wien) will give a talk on "Thinking Astrofuturism with Jacques Lacan and Hannah Arendt"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Research Colloquium So4 - Michael Doyle (Columbia University): "Cold Peace: Avoiding the New Cold War"
Michael Doyle is university professor at the University of Columbia (NYC), specializing in international relations theory, international security, and international organizations. Doyle previously served as assistant secretary-general and special adviser to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan from 2001 to 2003. Doyle has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations since 1992 and is the former chair of the Academic Council of the United Nations System. He has also been a vice president, senior fellow and a member (and chair) of the Board of Directors of the International Peace Institute between 1992 and 2018. He served as chair of the board of the UN Democracy Fund (UNDEF) from 2006–2013. In 2015, Doyle helped develop the Model International Mobility Convention which represents a shared framework among over 40 academics. This open lecture is part of the combined research colloquium of the Political Science & Sociology Departments of the JFK-I.
Location: JFK-I Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room: 340
Research Colloquium So4 - Michael Doyle (Columbia University): "Cold Peace: Avoiding the New Cold War"
Michael Doyle is university professor at the University of Columbia (NYC), specializing in international relations theory, international security, and international organizations. Doyle previously served as assistant secretary-general and special adviser to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan from 2001 to 2003. Doyle has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations since 1992 and is the former chair of the Academic Council of the United Nations System. He has also been a vice president, senior fellow and a member (and chair) of the Board of Directors of the International Peace Institute between 1992 and 2018. He served as chair of the board of the UN Democracy Fund (UNDEF) from 2006–2013. In 2015, Doyle helped develop the Model International Mobility Convention which represents a shared framework among over 40 academics. This open lecture is part of the combined research colloquium of the Political Science & Sociology Departments of the JFK-I.
Location: JFK-I Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room: 340
The Political Science Section of GAAS: Sources of Legitimacy - Rethinking US-American Democracy
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Richard Peña (Columbia University) will give a talk on "Brave New World: Yiddish Cinema in America"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Research Colloquium So3 - Andrea Binder (FU Berlin): "Offshore Finance: Scoping the Eurodollar System 1977-2022"
This open lecture is part of the combined research colloquium of the Political Science & Sociology Departments of the JFK-I. Please find the complete program here .
Location: JFK-I Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room: 319
Research Colloquium So3 - Andrea Binder (FU Berlin): "Offshore Finance: Scoping the Eurodollar System 1977-2022"
This open lecture is part of the combined research colloquium of the Political Science & Sociology Departments of the JFK-I. Please find the complete program here .
Location: JFK-I Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room: 319
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Winfried Fluck (Freie Universität Berlin) will give a talk on "Critical Theories, Populist Utopias, and Unforeseen Developments: Changing Narratives about the Mass Media in American Studies"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
[ONLINE] Research Colloquium So2 - David Schultz (Hamline University): “The Role of Swing States and Swing Voters in the Coming 2024 US Presidential Election”
This open lecture is part of the combined research colloquium of the Political Science & Sociology Departments of the JFK-I. Please find the complete program here .
Location: Please note: This talk will be held online via Webex: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin/j.php?MTID=mb19df88615086670393278050407fb68
[ONLINE] Research Colloquium So2 - David Schultz (Hamline University): “The Role of Swing States and Swing Voters in the Coming 2024 US Presidential Election”
This open lecture is part of the combined research colloquium of the Political Science & Sociology Departments of the JFK-I. Please find the complete program here .
Location: Please note: This talk will be held online via Webex: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin/j.php?MTID=mb19df88615086670393278050407fb68
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Ruth Mayer (Leibniz Universität Hannover) will give a talk on "The Original Flapper is a Copy: Modernist Periodicals, Serial Circulation and the Modern Girl Multiplied"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Research Colloquium So1 - Mark Schwartz (University of Virginia): "Triffin reloaded: The matrix of contradictions around global quasi-state money"
This open lecture is part of the combined research colloquium of the Political Science & Sociology Departments of the JFK-I. Please find the complete program here .
Location: JFK-I Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room: 319
Research Colloquium So1 - Mark Schwartz (University of Virginia): "Triffin reloaded: The matrix of contradictions around global quasi-state money"
This open lecture is part of the combined research colloquium of the Political Science & Sociology Departments of the JFK-I. Please find the complete program here .
Location: JFK-I Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room: 319
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Iryna Yakovenko (Borys-Grinchenko-Universität Kyiv) will give a talk on "Chornobyl and the Exclusion Zone as a Lived Experience and a Trope in American Literature: From Nonfiction to Thrillers"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Mahshid Mayar (Universität zu Köln) will give a talk on "The World in Pieces: Home, Empire, and Childhood in the 1890s"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Shirley Thompson (University of Texas at Austin): “Charles Chesnutt, Toni Morrison, and Black Political Economy”
Location: The lecture will be held online and is hosted by the DFG Research Network "Model Aesthetics: Between Literary and Economic Knowledge." For participation and the Zoom link, please contact Elisabeth Reichel: elisabeth.reichel@uni-osnabrueck.de
Simon Voß at the Society of Government Economists Annual Conference in Washington DC
Location: American University Washington College of Law 4300 Nebraska Ave. NW, Washington, D.C.
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Scott Zukowski (Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz) will give a talk on "Freedom’s Journal and the Intermedial Power of Early Black Periodicals"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Prof. Max Steinhardt at the Econ. Research Seminar hosted by the University of Pittsburgh
Location: Wesley W. Posvar Hall, 4940 230 S Bouquet St, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Simon Voss at the Lüneburg Workshop on Microeconomics
Location: Leuphana Universität Lüneburg Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre Universitätsallee 1 21335 Lüneburg
Research Colloqium S08 - Jared Sonnicksen (RWTH Aachen): The Places People Make. Re-Exploring Federal-Democratic Dynamics of State- Making in the U.S
This open lecture is part of the combined research colloquium of the Political Science & Sociology Departments of the JFK-I. You may find all lectures that are part of this series here , as well as an overview here .
Research Colloqium S07 - Clara Heinrich (JFK-I): BlackRock’s ‚Stakeholder Capitalism‘ On the Productive Power of the Structurally Privileged
This open lecture is part of the combined research colloquium of the Political Science & Sociology Departments of the JFK-I. You may find all lectures that are part of this series here , as well as an overview here .
Research Colloqium S06 - Margit Mayer (JFK-I, Emeriti): The Left in the US and the Democratic Party
This open lecture is part of the combined research colloquium of the Political Science & Sociology Departments of the JFK-I. You may find all lectures that are part of this series here , as well as an overview here .