Events
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" .
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 of the FU Berlin respectively will be held between October 26th and 30th. The introductory part necessary to succesfully start your studies at the JFK-I will be held online. The finalized schedule will be published here but new students will also be sent a personal invitation to the event. Afterwards, the presented material will also be available online for a few weeks. As of now, there are plans for a local event at the JFK-I, too. However, the event will not be mandatory and all the necessary information will already have been presented in the previous online event. Für die deutsche Version dieser Seite klicken Sie hier .
Lecture “Shocking Racial Attitudes: Black G.I.s in Europe” by David Schindler (Tilburg University)
Location: Room 202 (Kaminzimmer) Boltzmannstraße 20 14195 Berlin
–Cancelled and postponed due to COVID-19– Lecture “Shocking Racial Attitudes: Black G.I.s in Europe” by David Schindler (Tilburg University)
Location: Room 202 (Kaminzimmer) Boltzmannstraße 20 14195 Berlin
African Atlantic Research Group
Location: Graduate School for North American Studies Lansstr. 5, 14195 Berlin Seminarraum 2
Lecture by Prof. Vittorio Valli on his new book "The American Economy from Roosevelt to Trump"
Location: Room 319, John-F.-Kennedy-Institut, Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin
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
Institute Board Meeting (alternative date) *cancelled*
Location: Room 203
Prof. Steinhardt presents at the WZB on "The Impact of Xenophobic Violence on the Integration of Immigrants"
Location: WZB, Reichpietschufer 50, 10785 Berlin, Raum B002/003
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
FU Review Winter Reading 'Current Works'
Location: JFK Institute, Room 201
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
History Research Colloquium: Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon (University of Iceland) will give a talk on "The Cultural Existance of Few Barefoot Historians in the Icelandic Peasant Society in the 19th Century: Biography, Egodocuments and Microhistory"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Thinking Through Sex - On Screen & on the Page
Madita Oeming in Conversation with US Author Saskia Vogel
Location: JFKI Caféte (basement) Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin
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
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. 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
Institute Board Meeting
Location: Room 203
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Public Lecture on "Slavery's Old and New Materialisms" by Seth Rockman
Location: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin IGK Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History Georgenstraße 23, 6th Floor, 10117 Berlin
Ringvorlesung: Prof. Dr. Birte Wege (FU Berlin, JFKI) - Anna Deavere Smith's Verbatim Theatre
Location: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin
Prof. Andy Ferrara, University of Pittsburgh gives a talk on "WWI Anti-German Sentiment and Economic Growth in U.S. Counties"
Location: Room 319 John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Freie Universität Berlin Lansstraße 7-9 14195 Berlin
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
Lecture Series: Prof. Dr. Christoph Raetzsch (Aarhus University) will talk about "Smart City Visions in the United States and Europe: From Vertical to Horizontal Spaces
Location: Freie Universität Berlin Habelschwerdter Allee 45 Hs 1b Hörsaal
Institute Board Meeting (Curriculum Planning)
Location: Room 203
Evelyn Kreutzer (Northwestern University) - De-Throning Beethoven: Re-Mediations of European Classical Music Traditions in American TV of the Cold-War Era
Location: GSNAS Seminar Room
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
Dear Canada, Welcome to the world of European fragmented politics
A guest lecture by the Ambassador to Germany (Canada) and Special Envoy to the European Union, Stéphane Dion, PhD.
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 340
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
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
Lecture - Winfried Siemerling (University of Waterloo): "Climate Emergencies: Anthropocene, Race, Literature"
Location: Raum 340 Lansstraße 7-9 14195 Berlin
Graduation Ceremony 2019
Location: Seminaris Campus Hotel
Ringvorlesung: Dr. Thomas Greven (Privatdozent, FU Berlin, JFKI) - Beyond Superheroes: Comics and American Politics
Location: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin
Institute Board Meeting
Location: Room 203
Comparing the Divided America of the Turbulent 1960s to the Divided America Today
A Guest Lecture by Jim Willis , Professor Emeritus of Journalism at Azusa Pacific University
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Rebekah Ahrendt (Utrecht University) will give a talk on "Ambassadress Orfea, or, Why Condoleeza Rice's Piano Matters"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Ringvorlesung: Madita Oeming, M.A. (Universität Paderborn) - The Politics of Pathologizing Porn
Location: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin
A Reading and Conversation with Joy Castro
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Raum 201
History Research Colloquium: Ed Bryan (University of Cambridge) will give a talk on “Let them come to Berlin”: Critically Examining President John F. Kennedy’s Visit to West Berlin on 26 June 1963 as a Geopolitical Event
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
History Research Colloquium: Professor Selma Leydesdorff (University of Amsterdam) will give a talk on “Development of oral history from ‘factfinding’ to questions about representation and memory”
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Hearings for the Junior Professorship in Economics with a focus on economic policy and/or economic history of North America
Location: Room 319 John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstraße 7-9 14195 Berlin
Ringvorlesung: Prof. Dr. Christina Meyer (FU Berlin, JFKI) - Comic Figures, Comics Aesthetics, and American Popular Culture
Location: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin
Panel: Don't Blame the Working Class: Understanding Class Politics and Racism in the Trump Era
A panel with Thomas Greven (JFKI), Sherry Linkon und John Russo (both Georgetown University)
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Marius Kleinknecht (Freie Universität Berlin) will give a talk on "Our Lives, Our Fortunes and Sacred Honor: American Foreign Policy with the Barbary States"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
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: 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
Prof. Siep Stuurman from Utrecht University NL, will give a talk on "The Soul of Neo-Liberalism: Towards a Historical Genealogy of the 'Economic'", followed by a short comment by Prof Jessica Gienow-Hecht
Location: Fabeckstraße 23-25 ('Holzlaube'), room 2.2051.
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
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
Thomas Schwartz (Vanderbilt) - From John McCloy to George Bush: America's Foreign Policy Establishment, European Unity, and German Reunification, 1945-1990
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
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
Institute Board Meeting
Location: Room 203
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
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
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
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
"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 €
Research Colloquium Culture & Literature: Tim Lanzendörfer (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
Location: Room 201
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
"The Great Broadening“ - Guest lecture by Prof. Sean Theriault (University of Texas, Austin)
Guest lecture by Prof. Sean Theriault (University of Texas, Austin)
Location: Freie Universität Berlin John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien Abteilung Politik Lansstraße 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 319
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
BrownBag Lunch: Is Canada Exceptional? by Prof. Andrew Stark (University of Toronto)
The Political Science Department of the John F. Kennedy Institute cordially invites everyone to a brown bag lunch with Professor Andrew Stark from the University of Toronto titled "Is Canada Exceptional? - Canada in an Age of Right-Wing Populism" .
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien Political Science Department Lansstraße 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 340
Booklaunch Event: Contours Of The Illiberal State
Prof. Dr. Chrsitian Lammert and Prof. Boris Vormann will be presenting their newest anthology in the Odradek Bookstore on the 8. May, with an adjacent dicussion and reception afterwards.
Location: Buchhandlung Odradek Gustav-Müller-Straße 1 10829 Berlin