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“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, "The American Legion Crusade Against Subversion in San Diego Higher Education"
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
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
Laura Wollenweber (Freie Universität Berlin) "Zwischen republikanischen Traditionen und Menschenrechtsdiskursen: Kambodschanische Geflüchtete in Frankreich, 1975–1985"
Location: Koserstr. 20 Room A 320 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
GSNAS Doctoral Lab: Nadja Klopprogge, “From Ruins to Stages of Protest: Sex, Love, and Race in Postwar Germany"
Location: Graduate School of North American Studies Seminar Room Lansstraße 5 14195 Berlin
History Research Colloquium: Paul Edwards, “Fear of a Black Planet: Nazi Anxiety of Black America”
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Room 201 Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin
Talk by the JFK's Patrick Milton: 'The Treaties of Westphalia: A Model Peace for the Current Age'
Location: Room 0.1063 Fabeckstraße 23-25 14195 Berlin
Research Colloquium: "Detroit, Düsseldorf, Chicago, Berlin: Electronic Music and Emotion, 1970-2000."
Location: JFKI, Rm. 201
Research Colloquium: "Inside the Box: Barack Obama and American Foreign Policy Traditions?"
Location: JFKI, Rm. 201
Research Colloquium: "Building an Empire of Recreation: The Rest & Recuperation Program and US Servicemen in Taiwan during the Vietnam War (1965-1972)"
Location: JFKI, Rm. 201
Research Colloquium: "Gender and Academic Culture: Women in the Historical Profession in Germany and the United States since 1945“
Location: FMI, Koserstraße 20, Rm. A 336
Reseach Colloquium: “Boundary Histories: New Approaches to the History of the United States in the World“
Location: FMI, Koserstraße 20, A320
Research Colloquium: "The Movement for Shorter Hours: Trans-Atlantic Perspectives on Social History in Nineteenth-Century Germany and the U.S."
Location: JFKI, Rm. 201
International Conference: "Alliances: Un/Common Causes and the Politics of Participation"
Location: John-F.-Kennedy Institute
Research Colloquium: "Cleaning up the Mess. Women Journalists as Mediators for Germany's Post-war Rehabilitation"
Location: JFKI, Rm. 201
Research Colloquium: "Charming America: Deng Xiaoping and the Normalization of U.S. - PRC Relations"
Location: JFKI, Rm. 201
Research Colloquium, "Statecraft and Secession: American Nationhood in an Era of 19th Century Global Crisis"
Location: JFKI, Rm. 201
Research Colloquium, "Joseph L. Rauh, Jr. and the Legacy of the New Deal Liberalism"
Location: JFKI, Rm. 201
Research Colloquium: "History, Race, and the Question of National Identity in the American South after the Civil War"
Location: JFKI, Rm. 201
Trust and Time, Antrittsvorlesung Prof. Gienow-Hecht
Location: Koserstr. 20, Hörsaal B
Liz Cohen, "Making Space for Place in North American Studies"
Location: JFKI, Rm. 340