Dates
Lecture Series -S07: David Grundy (FU Berlin) "The Advanced Workers with the Anti-Imperialist Singers: You Was Marching Need to be Marchin So You Can Dance Some More Later on (1976) - Music and Revolution in the Age of Disco"
Location: ONLINE via Webex
Lecture Series -S09: Kylie Crane (University of Rostock) "Beyoncé: 'Formation‘ (2016) - #BLM and Environmental Justice“
Location: HS Anorganik, Fabeckstr. 34-36, 14195 Berlin
Lecture Series -S11: Simon Voss (FU Berlin) "Bruce Springsteen: 'The Ghost of Tom Joad' (1995) California amidst Homelessness and the Fentanyl Epidemic"
Location: HS Anorganik, Fabeckstr. 34-36, 14195 Berlin
Lecture Series -S12: Christian Lammert (FU Berlin): Oliver Anthony: Rich Men North of Richmond (2023) -- Inequality, Trust and Populist Mobilization in the United States
Location: HS Anorganik, Fabeckstr. 34-36, 14195 Berlin
Lecture Series -S1:Dennis Mischke (FU Berlin/ Ada Lovelace Center für Digital Humanities) "The Decemberists – 'The Mariner's Revenge Song' (2005) - Herman Melville and Computational Literary Studies"
Location: HS Anorganik, Fabeckstr. 34-36, 14195 Berlin
Lecture Series -S12: Kira Alvarez (FU Berlin) "Leonard Bernstein: 'Kaddish' (1963) – The Making of American Classical Music Relations with Israel"
Location: HS Anorganik, Fabeckstr. 34-36, 14195 Berlin
Annual Meeting of the Historians in the DGfA: Health in American History
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Location: Erfurt, Augustinerkloster
CANCELED! Lecture Series -S06: Barbara Elias (Bowdoin College) "Alice in Chains 'Rooster' (1992): Local Allies and US Strategic Failure in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan"
Location: ONLINE via Webex
Lecture Series -S05: David Eisler (De Gruyter): “ Creedence Clearwater Revival: 'Fortunate Son' (1969) - Conscription and American War Fiction since Vietnam”
Location: HS Anorganik, Fabeckstr. 34-36, 14195 Berlin
Lecture Series -S04: Sebastian Kohl (FU Berlin) "Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: 'Our House' (1970) - A Historical Sociology of American Housing"
Location: HS Anorganik, Fabeckstr. 34-36, 14195 Berlin
Lecture Series -S03: Martin Lüthe (FU Berlin) "Boyz II Men: 'End of the Road' (1992) - Boyband Affectivity and North American Intersectionalities"
Location: HS Anorganik, Fabeckstr. 34-36, 14195 Berlin
Lecture Series -S02: Katharina Motyl (University of Mannheim): “‘The Maid of Monterey’ (1848) – U.S. Imperial Feminism from the Mexican-American War to the ‘War on Terror’”
Location: HS Anorganik, Fabeckstr. 34-36, 14195 Berlin
Lecture Series -S01: Welcome, Introductiom and Discussion about “Songs that Shaped our Notions of ‘North America’”
Location: Online lecture: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=mf49ec77c523d0fa33db416b7670f6301
Tiffany Florvil (University of New Mexico) will hold a lecture at the FMI about "Rethinking Black Internationalisms in the late 20th Century
Location: Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut (FU Berlin) Koserstraße 20 Room A.336
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
Penny Von Eschen (University of Virginia): Paradoxes of Nostalgia: Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder since 1989
Location: JFKI, room 201
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Book Presentation: "Le président est-il devenu fou?" by Patrick Weil moderated by Prof. Gienow-Hecht
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
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
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
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
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
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
Ringvorlesung Guest Speaker: Gareth Davies (University College of London)
Location: Webex Online Event
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.