Dates
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
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
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.
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
“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
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
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
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
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)
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
Prof. Dr. Erika Milam (Princeton University) will talk about "The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America"
Location: Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut Koserstr. 20 14195 Berlin Raum A.336
Dr. Turcotte (Université Laval Québec) will explore "The Great Commonwealth Family, a Distorted Harmony: Britain-Dominions´Coordiantaion and the Issue of German Prisoners of War, 1940-1945"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute, Lansstr. 7-9, 14195 Berlin, room 203
Talk: Walter Frisch (Columbia University) will explore "Race and American Musicals in the 1940s-1950s"
Location: John F- Kennedy Institute, Lansstr. 7-9, 14195 Berlin, room 203
Prof. Makdisi will explore "Coexistence as Harmony"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute, Lansstr. 7-9, 14195 Berlin, room 203
Talk at the FMI: Prof. Maier (Harvard University) will explore "The Spirit of the Laws since World Wars: Presentist Reflections on the History of the Last Century, 1918-2018"
Location: Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Room A 336, Koserstr. 20, 14195 Berlin
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
Marvin Menniken, Ph. D. Candidate, Center for Global History Freie Universität Berlin and IMPRS Moral Economies, “Born in the USA: Championing Americanism in the Classroom”
Location: Graduate School of North American Studies Seminar Room Lansstraße 5 14195 Berlin
Michael Goebel / Christoph Kalter / Uwe Puschner (Freie Universität Berlin) Book Presentation and Discussion (in German)
Location: Koserstr. 20 Room: A 320 14195 Berlin
David K. Thomson (Sacred Heart University), Civil War Finance: The Primacy of the German States
Location: Room 319 The John F. Kennedy Institute Lanstraße 5 14195 Berlin
Francis Shor (Wayne State University): "Black Lives Matter"
Location: Room 319 The John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstraße 7 14195 Berlin
Lara Putnam (Pittsburgh): "„The Pracctice of History in a Digital Age: Borderless Search and Place-based Knowledge“
Location: Koserstr. 20 Room A 320 14195 Berlin
Workshop: "Global Historical Perspectives on Masculinity in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century"
Location: Freie Universität Berlin Neubau („Holzlaube“), 0.2051 Fabeckstraße 23–25 14195 Berlin
Join the John F. Kennedy Institute for Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften
Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien Lansstraße 7 14195 Berlin
Thomas Franck Lecture
Location: Law Faculty of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Room E34 (Bebelplatz 1, "Kommode")
Eric A. Posner, "Liberal Internationalism and the Populist Backlash"
Location: Henry Ford Bau, Hörsaal B Freie Universität Berlin
Laura Wollenweber (Freie Universität Berlin) "Zwischen republikanischen Traditionen und Menschenrechtsdiskursen: Kambodschanische Geflüchtete in Frankreich, 1975–1985"
Location: Koserstr. 20 Room A 320 14195 Berlin
Johannes Zechner (Berlin): "Nations Behind Glass. Exhibiting Identity in German and American History Museums"
Location: Room 319 The John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstraße 7 14195 Berlin
Björn Blaß, Ph. D. Candidate, Center for Global History Freie Universität Berlin and IMPRS Moral Economies, "Environments of Disposal. Moralities, Practices and Localities of Waste (1880‐1930)"
Location: Graduate School of North American Studies Seminar Room Lansstraße 5 14195 Berlin
Albert Wu (American University in Paris) "Quackery and Superstition in Europe and China: Scenes from a Global History, c. 1880–1960"
Location: Koserstr. 20 Room A 320 14195 Berlin
Sabrina Kirschner (München): "São Paulo, Stockholm & Washington, D.C.: The World Bank and the Discovery of Urban Environmental Problems as a Field of Development Policy"
Location: Room 319 The John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstraße 7 14195 Berlin
Workshop: "Making a Case for Internationalism"
Location: Freie Universität Berlin „Rostlaube“ Seminarzentrum, Raum L 115 Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin
Axel Körner (University College London) "America in Italy: The United States in the Political Thought and Imagination of the Risorgimento"
Location: Koserstr. 20 Room A 320 14195 Berlin
Julana Bredtmann, Ph. D. Candidate, Fachbereich Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften, Freie Universität Berlin, "Entnazifizierungspolitik in Berlin"
Location: Graduate School of North American Studies Seminar Room Lansstraße 5 14195 Berlin
John Woitkowitz, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Calgary, "The Joint Arctic Weather Stations Program and U.S.-Canadian Defense Cooperation, 1945-50"
Location: Graduate School of North American Studies Seminar Room Lansstraße 5 14195 Berlin
GSNAS Doctoral Lab: Karin Louise Hermes (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), "Kuleana - A Moral Responsibility to Re-examine Hawaiian Histories"
Location: Graduate School of North American Studies Seminar Room Lansstraße 5 14195 Berlin
JFK History Research Colloquium: Nina Mackert, "The Career of the Calorie. On a History of Eating and Measuring in the USA, 1860-1940"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Room 201 Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin
*CANCELLED due to illness* JFK History Research Colloquium: Silvan Niedermeier, "Colonial Snapshots. Photography and the Construction of Imperial Subject Positions in the Philippine American War (1899-1902)
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Room 201 Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin
JFK History Research Colloquium: Ilaria Scaglia, "Internationalism in the Alps"
Location: Note different time and place: Friedrich-Meineke-Institut Room A320 Koserstraße 20 14195 Berlin
Antrittsvorlesung: Sebastian Jobs & Alexander Schunka "Das Scheitern der Experten"
Location: Hörsaal B Koserstraße 20 14195 Berlin
JFK History Research Colloquium: Tony Hopkins, "The U.S. Empire"
Location: Note different time and place: Friedrich-Meineke-Institut Room A320 Koserstraße 20 14195 Berlin
GSNAS Doctoral Lab: roundtable discussion on doing North American history from abroad
Location: Graduate School of North American Studies Seminar Room Lansstraße 5 14195 Berlin
JFK History Research Colloquium: Sönke Kunkel, "Performing the President: Nixon's 1972 Visit to China and the Legacy of Presidential Travel in American Political Culture"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Room 201 Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin
Talk: Ilaria Scaglia will explore "Images of Internationalist Emotions, 1919-1945"
Location: The Max Planck Institute for Human Development Lentzeallee 94 14195 Berlin
GSNAS Doctoral Lab: Sarah Epping, “Altruist and/or Imperialist? John van Ess - An American Missionary in Iraq During World War One”
Location: Graduate School of North American Studies Seminar Room Lansstraße 5 14195 Berlin
Workshop: "Queering America and the World," with Laura Belmonte (Oklahoma State University)
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Room 319 Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin
JFK History Research Colloquium: David Woolner, "Progressivism and the 2016 Election - Looking Back at the Results"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Room 201 Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin
JFK History Research Colloquium: Olaf Stieglitz, "Modernity in Motion - Visualizing Athletic Bodies, 1890s-1930s"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Room 201 Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin
JFK History Colloquium: Helga Haftendorn, "Is the United States Still the Indispensable Nation?"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Room 340 (note different room) Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin