Events
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
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 .
Christoph Trebesch at the Research Seminar in Economics
Location: Kaminzimmer Boltzmannstr. 16-20 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Research Colloqium S05 - Michael Herron (Dartmouth): Evaluating claims of Election Malfeasance in 2020 and beyond
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 .
Location: Room 319 John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien Abteilung Politik Lansstraße 7-9 14195 Berlin
FMI Midterm Lecture: Ekaterina Pravilova (Princeton University) will give a talk on "The Ruble: A Political History"
Location: Hörsaal B Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut Koserstr. 20 14195 Berlin
Research Colloqium S04 - James Wood (University of Cambridge): Does American Politics Research Have A Political Economy Problem? A Quantitative Text Analysis on How Political Science Is Economical on Economics, 1950-2018:
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 .
"Imagining Native American/Indigenous Futures" - Guest Lecture by David Treuer (University of Southern Carolina)
David Treuer , professor of English at the University of Southern Carolina, is giving a guest lecture at the Henry-Ford-Bau of the FU Berlin. This talk has been organized in cooperation with The American Academy in Berlin . The event can be attended without previous notice or reservation.
Location: Freie Universität Berlin, Henry Ford Bau, Lecture Hall D (1st floor) Garystraße 35 14195 Berlin
Silke Übelmesser at the Research Seminar in Economics
Location: Kaminzimmer Boltzmannstr. 16-20 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Research Colloqium S03 - Mike Cowburn (GSNAS): Partisan Polarization in Congressional Nominations: How Ideological & Factional Primaries Influence Candidate Positions
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 .
Max Steinhardt presents his work at the "Political Economy of Migration Regimes: Origin and Destination Country Perspectives" Workshop
Location: Boltzmannstrasse 1, 14195 Berlin
Manuel Santos de Silva at the Research Seminar in Economics
Location: Kaminzimmer Boltzmannstr. 16-20 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Research Colloqium S02 - Erik Haustein (Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg): Do Natural Disasters Affect Household Saving? Evidence From the August 2002 Flood in Germany
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 .
Erik Haustein at the "Social Science Research Colloquium"
Location: Freie Universität Berlin John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Room 319 Lansstraße 7-9 14195 Berlin
Christian Lammert is joining the online panel: Lame Duck Presidency? Die USA nach den Zwischenwahlen
Location: Online via ClickMeeting Please sign up here: https://atlantischeakademie.clickmeeting.com/usa-nach-der-wahl/register
Research Colloqium S01 - Danielle Kerrigan (McGill University): The benevolent landlord: Understanding Housing Policy towards landlords in Phoenix
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 .
Panel Discussion on "Populism, Political Movements and Challenges for Democracy in Canada"
Location: The event is held in lecture hall -1.2009 in the "Holzlaube" on Fabeckstraße 23-25. Live stream at https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin/j.php?MTID=m2f7474c65b4be71826daddc3bb2c572c
Mike Cowburn (GSNAS) speaks at the Atlantik Forum: "Whose Party is it Anyway? Intra-Party Politics in a Partisan Era"
Location: Online via ClickMeeting, you can sign up here: https://atlantischeakademie.clickmeeting.com/atlantic-forum-whose-party-is-it-anyway-intra-party-politics-in-a-partisan-era/register
Penny Von Eschen (University of Virginia): Paradoxes of Nostalgia: Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder since 1989
Location: JFKI, room 201
Orientation Week Bachelor & Master in North American Studies 2022/23
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 10th & 11th, 2022 Master: Wednesday and Thursday, October 12th & 13th, 2022 Newly enrolled students can just attend the orientation days without prior registration or notification.
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Room 340 Lansstraße 7-9 14195 Berlin
Workshop: Media, Discourses, and Practices in the African Atlantic
Location: Room 340
Research Colloquium S05: Curd Knüpfer (JFKI): Right-Wing Counterpublics
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 .
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Room 319 Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin
History Research Colloquium: Dorothee Schwieters (University of Cologne) will give a talk on "In Harm's Way: Five Decades of Environmental Justice Struggle in Houston, TX"
Location: Seminar Room 201 John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin
Canceled: Research Colloquium Culture & Literature: Gabriele Schwab (University of California, Irvine)
Location: Room 340
Research Colloquium S08: Christian Lammert / Sebeastian-Kohl: Collaboration Project Brainstorming
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 .
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Room 319 Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin
History Research Colloquium: Tiffany Florvil (University of New Mexico) will hold a talk on "Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement"
Location: Seminar Room 201 John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin
Research Seminar in Economics: Tobias Heidland (Kiel University & ifw)
Location: 202 Sitzungsraum / Kaminzimmer Boltzmannstr. 16-20 14195 Berlin
Research Colloqium S07: Ernesto Domínguez López (University of Havanna) hält einen Vortrag zu " Right-Wing Populism in the US: Cultures and Trends"
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 .
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Room 319 Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin
William Glass - Protest and Change in a Democracy: The Civil Rights Movement
Prof. William Glass from the University of Warsaws American Studies Center is giving a lecture in conjuncture with Dr. Thomas Grevens seminar American Politics and Film . The lecture titled " Protest and Change in a Democracy: The Civil Rights Movement " is open to the public and will be held in room 340 at the John F. Kennedy Institute.
Location: Room 340 John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstraße 7-9 14195 Berlin
History Research Colloquium: Philip Wendler (University of Hamburg) will give a talk on "The German Migration Research Network: An International, Digital Teaching-Learning Approach"
Location: Seminar Room 201 John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin
Rodrigo Nunes (PUC-Rio): "Why a Theory of Political Organization?"
Location: Room 340 John F. Kennedy Institute, Lansstr. 7-9, 14195 Berlin
Research Seminar in Economics: Alessandra Casarico (Bocconi University)
Location: 202 Sitzungsraum / Kaminzimmer Boltzmannstr. 16-20 14195 Berlin
Research Colloquium Culture & Literature: Karen Ruoff (Kramer) (Stanford University)
Location: Room 340
Resilient Colors - Photo Exhibition
Location: Foyer in front of the library John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9, 14199 Berlin
Research Colloquium S06: Hannah Pool (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies): Financial Passages - The Role of Money and Borders in Undocumented Migration
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 .
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Room 319 Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin
History Research Colloquium: David Thomson (Sacred Heart University) will give a talk on "Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union"
Location: Seminar Room 201 John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin
Towards Anti-Racist and Anti-Sexist Teaching at the JFKI - Workshop 3
Location: Online via webex.
American Grids: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Housing, Energy, and Infrastructure
Location: Room 340 J.F.Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin
International Graduate Workshop 2022 hosted by the GSNAS
Location: Lansstr. 7-9, 14195 Berlin
Research Colloquium Culture & Literature: Evangelia Kindinger (Humboldt Universität Berlin)
Location: Room 340
Research Colloquium S04: Inaugural lectures: Sebastian Kohl, Céline Teney
This open lecture is part of the combined research colloquium of the Political Science & Sociology Departments of the JFK-I. Information about the inaugural lecture can be found here . You may find all lectures that are part of this series here , as well as an overview here .
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Room 319 Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin
Research Colloquium Culture & Literature: MaryAnn Snyder-Körber (Universität Würzburg)
Location: Room 340
Poetry Reading and Film Screening "Audre Lorde: the Berlin Years 1984-1992"
Location: JFKI, room 340
Research Colloquium Culture & Literature: JoAnne Mancini (Maynooth University / TERRA Visiting Professor)
Location: Room 340
Research Colloquium S03: Hans Noel (Georgetown University) will give a talk on "The Dynamics of Ideology: How Donald Trump could change what it means to be “conservative” in the United States"
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 .
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Room 319 Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin
EXTRA SESSION Research Colloquium Culture & Literature: Brett Mills (University of East Anglia)
Location: Raum 319
History Research Colloquium: Thomas Schira (University of Trier) will give a talk on "Imagining Alterity: The Historicity and Transformation of Knowledge in John Jewitt's Captivity Narrative (1807-2015)"
Location: Seminar Room 201 John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin
Richard Peña (Columbia University / Director Emeritus, New York Film Festival) "Altered Visions: The Rise of the American Avant-Garde"
Location: Room 340
Research Colloquium Culture & Literature: Marie-Jeanne Rossignol (Université Paris Diderot)
Location: Room 340
Research Colloquium S02: Kenton Card (UCLA): Housing Politics from the Streets to the Statehouse: Comparing Policies and Movements in Los Angeles and Berlin 2008-2020
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 .
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Room 319 Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin
History Research Colloquium: Andrew Johnston (Visiting Professor from Carleton University) will give a talk on "The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, the First World War, and the Origins of 'Human Security'"
Location: Seminar Room 201 John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin
Jane Elliott (Kings College London) will give a talk on "Live Models and the Agony of Allocative Choice”
Location: The lecture will be held on Zoom. For more on the event and how to register, please visit the homepage of the research network: https://model-aesthetics.com/events/
Mary Morgan (LSE) will give a talk on "Narrative Practices with Models”
Location: The lecture will be held on Zoom. For more on the event and how to register, please visit the homepage of the research network: https://model-aesthetics.com/events/
Research Colloquium Culture & Literature: Fabián Orán Llarena (Universidad de La Laguna)
Location: Room 340
Research Colloquium S01: Christian Güse - Guarantueeing the Flow
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 .
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Room 319 Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin
History Research Colloquium: Jacob Birken (University of Cologne) will give a talk on "Timeless Designs: The Material Culture of 19th Century US Utopianism"
Location: Seminar Room 201 John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin
Research Colloquium Culture & Literature: Leigh Claire La Berge (City University of New York | Humboldt Fellow)
Location: Room 340
Book Presentation: "Le président est-il devenu fou?" by Patrick Weil moderated by Prof. Gienow-Hecht
Research Colloquium Culture & Literature: Matthew D. Morrison (New York University | DHC Fellow)
Location: Room 340
Towards Anti-Racist and Anti-Sexist Teaching at the JFKI - Workshop 2
Location: Online via webex.
Canceled: Research Colloquium Culture & Literature: Scott Zukowski (Universität Graz)
Location: Room 340
1st Berlin Workshop on Empirical Public Economics: Preferences and Public Policy
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin
Student Council / FSI Meeting #04 (2022)
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!
Towards Anti-Racist and Anti-Sexist Teaching at the JFKI - Workshop 1
Location: Online via webex.
Rebecca Brückmann (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) – Where's Your Manhood? - White Women and White Supremacy in 20th Century U.S. History
Rinvorlesung WS21/22 - Lecture #15
Peihua Deng (FU Berlin) - Income inequality and SWB in China
Rinvorlesung WS21/22 - Lecture #14
Student Council / FSI Meeting #03 (2022)
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!
Tommy Curry (University of Edinburgh) – Misandric Aggression as a Managerial Strategy: How the Death and Dying of Black Men in the United States is Necessary to Racist Hierarchy
Rinvorlesung WS21/22 - Lecture #13
Luca Stella (FU Berlin) - Unhealthy Sleep Assimilation
Rinvorlesung WS21/22 - Lecture #12
1st Berlin Workshop on Empirical Public Economics: Preferences and Public Policy
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Raum 319, 340 2. OG Lansstraße 7-9 14195 Berlin
Workshop “The Socioeconomics of Housing and Finance – Evidence from the US and Europe"
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut room 319, 340 2. OG Lansstraße 7-9 14195 Berlin