Events
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture S05 - Sianne Ngai (University of Chicago): "Inhabiting Error: From “Last Christmas” to “Senior’s Last Hour”"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture S06 - Andrew Hartman (Illinois State University): "Karl Marx in America"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture S07 - Werner Sollors (Harvard University): "Approaches to American Literature in Cosmopolitan and Ethnic Contexts"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture S08 - Alexis Salas (Terra Professor): “Plant Papi Politics: Queer Latinx Artists Re-grounding Nature"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture S09 - Katja Sarkowsky (University of Augsburg): "Writing Rivers: Water, Relationality, and Political Critique"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture S10 - Russ Castronovo (University of Wisconsin-Madison): “Frozen Subjectivity: Vulnerability and Aesthetics at the End of the World.”
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture S11 - Christa Buschendorf (University of Frankfurt): "Artists and Intellectuals in Times of Repression: A Symposium on 'Art and Morals' at Smith College in 1953"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture S12 - Julia Faisst (TU Dortmund): "Disappearing Children: Border Narratives of Underage Migration"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture S13 - Katharina Gerund (University of Zurich):"The Waiting Wives of the Forever Wars: Military Spouses in Post-9/11 US Culture"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture S04 - Heike Paul (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg): "From Lost Colony to Lost Cause: American Beginnings Revisited"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture S03 - Birte Christ (University of Tübingen): "Why Helmut Read Hemingway : American Authors and the Post-War (Re-)Construction of a Broad German Reading Public"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture S02 - Dustin Breitenwischer (University of Hamburg): "You just take a look at him once in a while": Ralph Ellison’s Frederick Douglass
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture S01 - Marco Caracciolo (Ghent University): "Algorithms, Gamification, and the Ambiguities of Play in Richard Powers’s Playground"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Guest Lecture by Peter S. Onuf (University of Virginia): "Declarations of War, Aspirations for Peace"
Location: JFKI R319
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Cécile Coquet-Mokoko (Université Versailles-St Quentin) will give a talk on “Race traitors? Perceptions and Coping Strategies of Black/White interracial couples in the American South and France, 2010-2020”
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Cinzia Scarpino (Università degli Studi di Milano) will give a talk on “Introducing American Authors to Italian Readers: Transnational Trajectories and Idiosyncratic Translation Policies (1930- 1974)”
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Karin Höpker (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) will give a talk on “Confidence and the ‘Contortions of Money’— Market Fiction & Herman Diaz’s Trust“
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Winfried Siemerling (University of Waterloo) & Karina Vernon (University of Toronto) will give a talk on “Call and Response-ability: Black Canadian Art and Audience“
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Guest Lecture: Michaela Keck (Universität Oldenburg) will give a talk on "Louisa May Alcott's 'Little Patients': Representations of Health, Illness, and Repair"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R319
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Rizvana Bradley (Terra Visiting Professor/ University of California, Berkeley) will give a talk on “The Corporeal Division of the World: On Anteaesthetics“
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Kathleen Loock (Leibniz Universität Hannover) will give a talk on “Hollywood Remaking: Memory, Nostalgia, and Generational Identities from Stella Dallas to Ghostbusters“
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Laura Bieger (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) will give a talk on “The Underground Railroad and the Promise of Infrastructure“
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Andrew Gross (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) will give a talk on “Eclogue at the End of History: The Best American Poetry of 1990“
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Martina J. Kohl (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) reading from her novel Family Matters: Of Life in Two Worlds (PalmArtPress Berlin, 2023)
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Barbara von Bechtolsheim (Yale University) will give a talk on “Passion for Life: Hannah Arendt and Heinrich Blücher”
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Narratives of American Culture in Dialogue
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute, Lansstr. 7-9, 14195 Berlin Room 340
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: David Grundy (Humboldt Fellow/ Freie Universität Berlin) will give a talk on “Survival Music: Free Jazz Then and Now”
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Guest Lecture by Annette Gordon-Reed (Harvard): "The Enlightenment: Science, Education, Race, and the American Experiment"
Location: JFKI, room 340
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
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 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 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 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 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
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 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
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
Workshop: Media, Discourses, and Practices in the African Atlantic
Location: Room 340
Canceled: Research Colloquium Culture & Literature: Gabriele Schwab (University of California, Irvine)
Location: Room 340
Research Colloquium Culture & Literature: Karen Ruoff (Kramer) (Stanford University)
Location: Room 340
Research Colloquium Culture & Literature: Evangelia Kindinger (Humboldt Universität Berlin)
Location: Room 340
Research Colloquium Culture & Literature: MaryAnn Snyder-Körber (Universität Würzburg)
Location: Room 340
Research Colloquium Culture & Literature: JoAnne Mancini (Maynooth University / TERRA Visiting Professor)
Location: Room 340
EXTRA SESSION Research Colloquium Culture & Literature: Brett Mills (University of East Anglia)
Location: Raum 319
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 Culture & Literature: Fabián Orán Llarena (Universidad de La Laguna)
Location: Room 340
Research Colloquium Culture & Literature: Leigh Claire La Berge (City University of New York | Humboldt Fellow)
Location: Room 340
Research Colloquium Culture & Literature: Matthew D. Morrison (New York University | DHC Fellow)
Location: Room 340
Canceled: Research Colloquium Culture & Literature: Scott Zukowski (Universität Graz)
Location: Room 340
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.
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
Holler If You Hear Me: Hip-Hop Testimony as Subjugated Knowledge
Location: Online Event
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
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
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
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
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
Online Lecture | David Alworth (Harvard): "Book Talk: The Look of the Book"
Location: The lecture will be held online on the platform Webex.
African Atlantic Research Group
Location: Graduate School for North American Studies Lansstr. 5, 14195 Berlin Seminarraum 2
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. 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
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
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
Ringvorlesung: Prof. Dr. Birte Wege (FU Berlin, JFKI) - Anna Deavere Smith's Verbatim Theatre
Location: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 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
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
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. Thomas Greven (Privatdozent, FU Berlin, JFKI) - Beyond Superheroes: Comics and American Politics
Location: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin
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
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