Events
Student Council / FSI Meeting #18
Join the Student Council (Fachschafts Initiative) of the JFK-I and inform yourself about the political happenings in and around your university and our institute, help identify and tackle problems within that system and also meet a merry bunch of perpetually angry (but fun !) student colleagues, that want to make these institutions better than they are today!
Location: Online-Meeting via video conferencing tool WebEx.
Orientation Week Bachelor & Master in North American Studies 2021/22
This year's orientation week at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies will take place on the following dates: Bachelor: Monday and Tuesday, October 11th & 12th, 2021 Master: Wednesday and Thursday, October 13th & 14th, 2021
Student Council / FSI Meeting #19
Join the Student Council (Fachschafts Initiative) of the JFK-I and inform yourself about the political happenings in and around your university and our institute, help identify and tackle problems within that system and also meet a merry bunch of perpetually angry (but fun !) student colleagues, that want to make these institutions better than they are today!
Location: Online-Meeting via video conferencing tool WebEx.
"Working at the Intersections" - Two Dialogs
Location: tba
Student Council / FSI Meeting #17
Join the Student Council (Fachschafts Initiative) of the JFK-I and inform yourself about the political happenings in and around your university and our institute, help identify and tackle problems within that system and also meet a merry bunch of perpetually angry (but fun !) student colleagues, that want to make these institutions better than they are today!
Location: Online-Meeting via video conferencing tool WebEx.
Student Council / FSI Meeting #16
Join the Student Council (Fachschafts Initiative) of the JFK-I and inform yourself about the political happenings in and around your university and our institute, help identify and tackle problems within that system and also meet a merry bunch of perpetually angry (but fun !) student colleagues, that want to make these institutions better than they are today!
Location: Online-Meeting via video conferencing tool WebEx.
CANCELLED: Research Colloquium Literature / Culture: MaryAnn Snyder-Körber (Universität Würzburg) will give a talk on “Everybody’s Protest Poem: Articulating Translation in Perspectives / Perspektiven USA”
Location: This lecture will be rescheduled for a date in the winter term.
JFKInterviews - Session #4 - Daniela Iacona
Do you wonder about the future occasionally (or all the time), pondering what to do once you have your degree in NAS? Then fret not, my angst-ridden millennial friends, for the students have decided to take matters into their own hands! Please take note of the fifth installment of our student-run events series called JFKInterviews ! These interactive interviews will give you the opportunity to have a chat with people who have similar academic backgrounds as us and have found amazing jobs since their graduation! The format is deliberately interactive, so you don’t just join in on another boring and meandering WebEx session where nobody read the assigned texts, ahem.
International Graduate Conference 2021
Location: Online
Research Colloquium Literature / Culture: Myka Tucker-Abramson (University of Warwick | Humboldt Fellow) will give a talk on “The Road Novel’s Spatial Fix: Towards a Materialist Theory of the Road Novel”
Location: Online via Webex Meetings https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m51053f2826b8cff75d762105a062fdfb
JFKInterviews - Session #4 - T. Vicky Germain
Do you wonder about the future occasionally (or all the time), pondering what to do once you have your degree in NAS? Then fret not, my angst-ridden millennial friends, for the students have decided to take matters into their own hands! Please take note of the fourth installment of our student-run events series called JFKInterviews ! These interactive interviews will give you the opportunity to have a chat with people who have similar academic backgrounds as us and have found amazing jobs since their graduation! The format is deliberately interactive, so you don’t just join in on another boring and meandering WebEx session where nobody read the assigned texts, ahem.
Holler If You Hear Me: Hip-Hop Testimony as Subjugated Knowledge
Location: Online Event
"The USA before, with and after Trump" - a discussion with Margit Mayer (FU Berlin) and Christoph Scherrer (Uni Kassel) [in German]
Location: via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95789231500?pwd=L1V4SWFVRGlhZUpsVlU4U3VVMTR3QT09 Kenncode: 059049
Cornel West, Afrofuturism, and the Black Panther Phenomenon - Guest Lecture by Robert Pirro
The Political Sciende Department of the JFK-I is very happy to welcome Prof. Robert Pirro (Georgia Southern University) for a guest lecture moderated by Dr. Thomas Greven !
Location: Online via webex: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=mc0fb4833bd00acaeb1a2a617b1a39d66 Meeting number:121 900 6351 Password:iMth7AB53np
Research Colloquium Literature / Culture: Michael Thomas (Susquehanna University | Humboldt Fellow) will give a talk on “W.E.B. Du Bois and the Aesthetic Problem(s) of Race”
Location: Online via Webex Meetings https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m51053f2826b8cff75d762105a062fdfb
Research Colloquium Literature / Culture: Angela Miller (Washington University in St. Louis) will give a talk on “Unbounded: The Expanded Worlds of the 1940s”
Location: Online via Webex Meetings https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m51053f2826b8cff75d762105a062fdfb
JFKInterviews - Session #3 - Aryanne Besner Quintal
Do you wonder about the future occasionally (or all the time), pondering what to do once you have your degree in NAS? Then fret not, my angst-ridden millennial friends, for the students have decided to take matters into their own hands! Please take note of the third installment of our student-run events series called JFKInterviews ! These interactive interviews will give you the opportunity to have a chat with people who have similar academic backgrounds as us and have found amazing jobs since their graduation! The format is deliberately interactive, so you don’t just join in on another boring and meandering WebEx session where nobody read the assigned texts, ahem.
Research Colloquium Literature / Culture: Sanders Isaac Bernstein (University of Southern California | Visiting Researcher) will give a talk on “American (Proto) Fascism, 1914-1933”
Location: Online via Webex Meetings
American Evangelicals and Africa: Why Some African Christians Were Praying for a Trump Victory - Guest Lecture by Prof. William Glass
The Political Science Department of the JFK-I is very happy to welcome Prof. William Glass (University of Warsaw) for a guest lecture moderated by Dr. Thomas Greven !
Location: Online via webex: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=mc0fb4833bd00acaeb1a2a617b1a39d66 Meeting number:121 900 6351 Password:iMth7AB53np
Research Colloquium Literature / Culture: Klaus Benesch (Universität München) will give a talk on “The Responsibility of Intellectuals”
Location: Online via Webex Meetings https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m51053f2826b8cff75d762105a062fdfb
Research Colloquium Literature / Culture: David Getsy (School of the Arts Institute Chicago | Terra Visiting Professor) will give a talk on “Enduring out: Geoffrey Hendricks’s Ring Piece and the Ambivalence of Queer Visibility in 1971”
Location: Online via Webex Meetings: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m4831f1dc2ab5397a4d9dd1c892b418f3
Research Colloquium Literature / Culture: Merve Emre (University of Oxford | Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin) will give a talk on “Once More, the Return to Philology”
Location: Online via Webex Meetings https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m51053f2826b8cff75d762105a062fdfb
Research Colloquium Literature / Culture: Sabine Sielke (Universität Bonn) will give a talk on “Feminism Reloaded? The Serial Debate on Sexual Harassment and Violence, or: What’s New about #MeToo?”
Location: Online via Webex Meetings https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m51053f2826b8cff75d762105a062fdfb
JFKInterviews - Session #2 - Hans Jürgen Hoyer
Do you wonder about the future occasionally (or all the time), pondering what to do once you have your degree in NAS? Then fret not, my angst-ridden millennial friends, for the students have decided to take matters into their own hands! Please take note of the second installment of our student-run events series called JFKInterviews ! These interactive interviews will give you the opportunity to have a chat with people who have similar academic backgrounds as us and have found amazing jobs since their graduation! The format is deliberately interactive, so you don’t just join in on another boring and meandering WebEx session where nobody read the assigned texts, ahem.
Margit Mayer will be joining a panel discussion on "Protest and Policing in the time of the pandemic"
Freedom of expression and assembly are core features of democracy. However, restrictions to rights to liberty have been justified to prevent the spread of serios infectious disease. Regulations during the COVID-19 pandemic have therefore sought to restrict public assemblies. At the same time in 2020 the #BlackLivesMatter movement responded dynamically to police violence. Further significant protests in the UK in 2020 included protest events of Extinction Rebellion and protests over government response to the pandemic. The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill 2021 responds to these protest events and has immediately resulted in further protests. At the same time, Northern Ireland is experiencing a return to violent protest. This panel brings together a group of experts who are reflecting on protest and policing in the times of the pandemic. Speakers will discuss continuities and discontinuities, as well as the future of protest, how it is policed and how protest responds to policing. Please register for the event here Meeting ID: 893 6583 8098, password: 685025
Location: via Zoom: Meeting ID: 893 6583 8098, password: 685025
Research Colloquium Literature / Culture: Robert Reid-Pharr (Harvard University) will give a talk on “Archives and Icons: James Baldwin and the Practice of Celebrity”
Location: Online via Webex Meetings https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m51053f2826b8cff75d762105a062fdfb
Research Colloquium Literature / Culture: Moritz Ingwersen (TU Dresden) will give a talk on “Indigenous Petrofiction: Settler-Colonial Extractivism and the Resurgence of Fossils”
Location: Online via Webex Meetings https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m51053f2826b8cff75d762105a062fdfb
JFKInterviews - Session #1 - Neetal Parekh
Do you wonder about the future occasionally (or all the time), pondering what to do once you have your degree in NAS? Eespecially since the FU Berufspraxiswoche left much to be desired? Then fret not, my angst-ridden millennial friends, for the students have decided to take matters into our own hands! Please take note of our new, student-run events series called JFKInterviews !
Location: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m238e66d389049cb52ca68aa1502b5227
Research Colloquium Literature / Culture: Allison Blakely (Boston University) will give a talk on“Europe as African and African-American Refuge from Racism: Germany’s Record”
Location: Online via Webex Meetings https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m51053f2826b8cff75d762105a062fdfb
Research Colloquium Literature / Culture: Elahe Haschemi Yekani (HU Berlin) will give a talk on “Enslavement in British Memorial Culture: Between Nostalgia and Toppled Monuments”
Location: Online via Webex Meetings https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m51053f2826b8cff75d762105a062fdfb
Research Colloquium Literature / Culture: Simon Strick (ZeM Brandenburg) will give a talk on “American Studies Uncanceled"
Location: Online via Webex Meetings https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m51053f2826b8cff75d762105a062fdfb
Curd Knüpfer will discuss "Fake news - no more? Disinformation and Fact-Checking in US Media"
The spread of disinformation has increased significantly over the past years, and so have its countermeasures: among them fact-checking. While the phenomenon of disinformation is often linked to specific events or media formats, it is a long-term development, with underlying structural forces that have shaped the US media system for years: resulting in an increasing segmentation of audiences, a fragmentation of the media landscape, and today’s highly polarized US society. While all of this poses a severe challenge to traditional journalism, “fact-checking” has emerged as an effective weapon to counter disinformation. Together with our experts, we will discuss this development from a journalistic and an academic perspective – with a focus on the US, but through a transatlantic lens.
Location: via ZOOM Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_m9uQAoQYSZm1u0
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
Guest Lecture on the Global State of Poverty and Inequality - “Topics in Economic Development”
Location: Meeting-Link: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin/j.php?MTID=mf665f32a2101a3afc6b2bbb23a8d16e8 Meeting-Kennnummer: 121 986 2126 Passwort: wKkeaQa32k3
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
Presentation by Louis Clerc (University of Turku) on "Dilemmas of the globalized nation. Domestication and rejection of the neo-liberal script in Finland’s public diplomacy and nation branding, 1980-2010s"
Location: WebEx Online Event
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
Presentation by Barbara Allen (La Salle University) on "A Worker Oppositionist in Stalin’s Terror: Alexander Shlyapnikov, 1934-37"
Location: WebEx Online Event
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
Presentation by Louis A. Pérez (University of North Carolina) on "1898: Crucible of Empire - and Revolution"
Location: WebEx Online Event
Amerikahaus: "What way forward for America at home and abroad? A Post-Election Analysis" by Lora Anne Viola
Location: Via youtube livestream. No registration required. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAJrnYO-3zI&feature=youtu.be
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
Presentation by Paul A. Kramer (Vanderbilt University; Nashville, TN) on "Movements across Borders: Writing Histories of Transnational Activism between the U. S. and the Wider World"
Location: WebEx Online Event
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
Online Lecture | David Alworth (Harvard): "Book Talk: The Look of the Book"
Location: The lecture will be held online on the platform Webex.
Lora Anne Viola will join a panel discussion on "The Future of Transatlantic Relattions"
Location: Live on youtube: https://youtu.be/cPkNTrFVdWk
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
Presentation by Jan Hansen (HU Berlin) on "Urban Infrastructure and Everyday Life in Los Angeles, 1860–1940”
Location: WebEx Online Event
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
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
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
Ringvorlesung Guest Speaker: Gareth Davies (University College of London)
Location: Webex Online Event
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
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