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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
Institute Board Meeting
Location: Room 203
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
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
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
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
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: Prof. Dr. Andreas Sudmann (FU Berlin, JFKI) - The Democratization of AI Media Politics in the Age of Learning Algorithms
Location: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin
Reading by Joy Castro
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Raum 201
Ringvorlesung: Madita Oeming, M.A. (Universität Paderborn) - The Politics of Pathologizing Porn
Location: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin
Institute Board Meeting
Location: Room 203
Ringvorlesung: Dr. Thomas Greven (Friedrich Ebert Stiftung) - Beyond Superheroes: Comics and American Politics
Location: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin
Graduation Ceremony 2019
Location: Henry-Ford-Bau Hörsaal A Garystr. 35 14195 Berlin
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
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
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
Institute Board Meeting (Curriculum Planning)
Location: Room 203
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
Ringvorlesung: Prof. Dr. Birte Wege (FU Berlin, JFKI) - Anna Deavere Smith's Verbatim Theatre
Location: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin
Institute Board Meeting
Location: Room 203
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
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. Elahe Haschemi Yekani (HU Berlin) - Representing Trans on TV: Between Hypervisibility and Backlash
Location: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin
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
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
Institute Board Meeting (alternative date)
Location: Room 203
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
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
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
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 €
Brenden Rensink (Brigham Young University) will give a talk about "“Transnational Indigenous Histories in the North American Borderlands.”
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Seminar Room: 203
Research Colloquium Culture & Literature: Yogita Goyal (University of California, Los Angeles)
Location: Room 201
History Research Colloquium: Dagmar Herzog (Visiting Professor GSNAS) will talk about "Deeroticization and Displacement:The # metoo-Movement and its Queer Critics"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin
"Aesthetics and Democracy", Symposium in Honor of Winfried Fluck's 75th birthday
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute, Room 340
Research Colloquium Culture & Literature: Christoph Ribbat (Universität Paderborn)
Location: Room 201
Research Colloquium Culture & Literature: Laura Katzman (James Madison University)
Location: Room 201
Institute Board Meeting
Location: Room 203
Research in Progress Colloquium GSNAS 2019
Location: GSNAS Seminar room Lansstraße 5 14195 Berlin
Robin James (UNC Charlotte) "Poptimism and Popular Music"
Location: Room 201
Antoon de Baets (University of Groningen) "The Persecution of Historians as a Crime against History"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute, Lansstr. 7-9, 14195 Berlin Room: 203 (Seminarraum)
Yaa Gaysi Reading
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 340
History Research Colloqium: John Leary (Wayne State University) will talk about "Border Monsters:fantasies of Insurgency along the U.S. -Mexico Frontier from Pancho Villa to the Present
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute, Lansstr. 7-9, 14195 Berlin Room 203 (Seminarraum)
History Research Colloquium: Norbert Finzsch (Universität zu Köln) will talk about “We know the lesbian habits of kleitoriazein […] which justify the resection of the clitoris”: Cliteridectomy in the West, 1600 to 1960”
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute, Lansstr. 7-9, 14195 Berlin Room 203 (Seminarraum)
Institute Board Meeting - Cancelled
Location: Raum 203
Shane Denson (Stanford University) & Kathleen Loock (FU Berlin), “Videographic Criticism as Digital Research Practice: The Video Essay in Conversation”
Location: Room 340
JFKI History Research Colloquium: Julius Wilm (University of Copenhagen) "Limits of Settler Colonialism: Free LandPolicy in Antebellum America
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 203
Christmas Party am JFK-I
Like every year the student body of the JFK-I cordially invites everyone accosiated with the institute to join us for the event of the season: The John F. Kennedy Institute Christmas Party !
Location: Caféte des JFK-I
Institute Board Meeting
Location: Raum 203
How Healthy are JFKI Students?
Location: Foyer JFKI
Alt–Right Roundtable #1
Location: Room 203
Adam Hjorthén (University of Stockholm) will talk about "Friendship, Power, and Innocence: Cross-Border Commemoration of Swedish Settlement in America
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Romm 203
Graduation 2018
Location: Henry-Ford-Bau Hörsaal A Garystr. 35 14195 Berlin
Richard Peña (Columbia University / Director Emeritus, New York Film Festival) "Faded Glory: African-American Cinema, 1915-1952"
Location: Room 340
History Research Colloqium: Daniel Manulak (University of Western Ontario) will talk about "A Mission with a Mission: Canada, The Third World, and South African Apartheid, 1984 -1994"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 203
Prof. Gienow-Hecht will talk about "A Feeling I Cannot Put Into Words: Gender, Humanity and the War of 1898 in Cuba”
Location: Wengler Library Humboldt Universität Berlin Law Faculty Building "Altes Palais" Unter den Linden 9 Room E 23
Diane Negra (University College Dublin / GSNAS Visiting Professor) "Celebrity Death: The Posthumous Persona of Amy Winehouse"
Location: Room 340
Institute Board Meeting (Curriculum Planning)
Note: this meeting will exceptionally take place at 1:00 P.M.
Location: Raum 203
Alumni Lunch with Dr. Yulia Kozyrakis
Project Manager, Joachim Herz Stiftung, Hamburg / Alumna GSNAS
Location: JFK-I, room 340
"Remake Studies: New Methods and Approaches" (Workshop)
Location: Room 340
Institute Board Meeting
Location: Raum 203
Prof. Gareth Davies (University of Oxford) will give a talk on "A Government of War with itself: Disaster Politics and the American State"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 203
Guest Lecture by Professor Donald Pease (Dartmouth College): "Surveillance, Spectacle, and (In) Securitization after Trump"
Location: Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Guest Lecture by Professor Diane Negra (University College Dublin): "Ivanka Trump and the New Plutocratic (Post)Feminism"
Location: Room 340
JFKI Sommerfest 2018
We would like to welcome all students, lecturers and alumni to our annual summer party ! There will be plenty of cold beer, warm food (vegetarian, too) and music to go around. We will also accept participants for our famous Beer Pong tournament on the spot. Be sure to sign up at the music station before 8:30pm!
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Matt Hills (University of Huddersfield)
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstraße 7-9 room 201
Talk: Professor Gienow-Hecht will explore "Gender, Humanity, and the War of 1898 in Cuba"
Location: Humboldt Universität Berlin, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaft, Friedrichstr. 191-193, 10117 Berlin Room: 5028
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Sabine Broeck (Universität Bremen)
Location: John F. Kennedy Institut Lansstraße 7-9 room 201
Dr. Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins (Yale University) will talk about "The Neoconservative Moment in France: Raymond Aron and the United States of America"
Location: Friedrich Meinecke Institute, Koserstr. 20, 14195 Berlin, Room A127
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Chloé Thomas (Université Paris VIII)
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstraße 7-9 room 201
Farewell Lecture Prof. Collier - "Reflections on Academic Community, Clubs, and Clans"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute, Lansstraße 7-9. Room 340
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Jose Saldívar (Stanford University)
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstraße 7-9 room 201
Laura Bieger (University of Groningen): “The Public and Its Problems Revisited: Reading Dewey through Habermas”
Location: Course room 2, Villa Graduate School of North American Studies Lansst.r. 5, 14195 Berlin
Khary Polk (Amherst College): “We Don’t Need Another Hero: The Paradox of Black Military Imperialism”
Location: Room 340, John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9, 14195 Berlin
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Andrea Carosso (Università degli Studi di Torino)
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstraße 7-9 room 201
Extra Session Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Richard Dyer (King’s College London/St. Andrews University)
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstraße 7-9 room 340
Lan Samantha Chang (Author & Director, Iowa Writers' Workshop): Reading & Discussion of the Iowa Writers' Workshop Program
Location: Raum 319
Lecture/Performance "The Americans", Monday June 18, 2pm
The John F. Kennedy Institute cordially invites you to join us for a two-hour lecture and live-music performance of the L.A.-based band „The Americans“. The band will be performing a special lecture on the history of 1920's American Folk Music at the Henry-Ford-Bau (Hörsaal B) at 2pm on Monday, June 18. You can also still get tickets for their show at the Badehaus Berlin on Monday evening. Their 2017 debut album “I’ll be yours” was released by Rough Trade/Loose Music and received great praise. You can find a selection of press clippings at http://loosemusic.com/press/theamericans Feel free to listen to some of their tunes on the band’s You tube channel at https://www.youtube.com/theamericansmusic
Location: Henry-Ford-Bau: Hörsaal B Garystraße 35 14195 Berlin
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Marc Jancovich (University of East Anglia)
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institute Lansstraße 7-9 room 201
Institute Board Meeting
Location: Room 203
Fraenkel Lecture: Hortense Spillers, "To the Bone: Some Speculations on Touch"
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstr. 7-9 Raum 340
Terra Symposium, "Empathy, Intimacy, and Ethics in American Art"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute, room 340
Extra Session Research Colloquium Literature/Culture Samuel Zipp (Brown University)
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institute Lansstraße 7-9 room 340
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Liam Kennedy (UCD Clinton Institute)
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institute Lansstr. 7-9 room 201
Rosalind Gill (City, University of London): “Postfeminism, Body Love and Selling Confidence to Women”
Location: Room 340
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Kathleen Loock (FU Berlin / DRS Fellow)
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institute Lansstr. 7-9 room 201
Institute Board Meeting (Curriculum Planning)
Location: Room 203
Freie Universität Berlin – Indiana University Joint Speaker Series: The Role of Media in the Digital Age
Location: Otto-Suhr-Institut der Freien Universität Berlin Ihnestraße 21 14195 Berlin Room A (ground floor)
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Martyn Bone (University of Copenhagen)
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institute Lansstraße 7-9 room 201
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Lauren Kroiz (UC Berkeley/Terra Visiting Professor)
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institute Lansstraße 7-9 room 201
Institute Board Meeting
Location: Room 203
"Exemplary Singularity - Fault Lines of the Anecdotal"
Location: Raum 340
History Research Colloquium: Christoph Laugs, Universität Trier will explore "Resistance through clothing? Articulations of Métisness in Canada after 1885"
Location: JFKI, Lansstr. 7-9, Seminarraum 340, 14195 Berlin
ERASMUS Information Day at the JFKI
Location: JFKI, room 203