International Graduate Workshop 2022
Graduate School of North American Studies, John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin
American Grids: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Housing, Energy, and Infrastructure
In-person workshop, Lansstr. 7-9, 14195 Berlin, Friday, 17 June, 10:00-20:00For online attendance, click this link:
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Open to all! If you would like to attend, please send a message with your name and affiliation (if appropriate) to workshop2022@gsnas.fu-berlin.de, until Friday 10 June, 2022. Thank you for observing the university's hygiene plan, and for staying home if you feel unwell.
Schedule
the program is also available as a PDF
Opening Remarks
Max McKenna, Simon Voss
JFKI (Lansstraße 7-9), Room 319
- 10:00 - 10:15
First Panel: Grids of Environment(s)
Chair: Max McKenna
JFKI, Room 319
- 10:15 - 11:05
- Maite Aperribay, University of the Basque Country
“Social and Environmental Justice: Housing in Chicana Literature”
- Maite Aperribay, University of the Basque Country
- 11:05 - 11:55
- Anastassia Biederstaedt, Heidelberg Center for American Studies
“Constructing ‘Milk’: Tying a Network of Nature and Culture”
- Anastassia Biederstaedt, Heidelberg Center for American Studies
- 11:55 - 12:45
- Sandra Becker, University of Groningen
“Nuclear Family, Toxic Masculinity, Ecofeminism: Television Technology and Gendered Discourses”
- Sandra Becker, University of Groningen
Lunch Break
Restaurant “Esskultur”,
Museum Europäischer Kulturen (MEK), Arnimallee 25
- 12:45 - 14:15
Second Panel: Grids of Social Security
Chair: Simon Voss
JFKI, Room 319
- 14:15 - 15:05
- Mathilde Lind Gustavussen, FU Berlin
“When Affordable Housing Policy Displaces: Expropriating Housing in Chinatown, Los Angeles”
- Mathilde Lind Gustavussen, FU Berlin
- 15:05 - 15:55
- Hannah Löffler, TU Munich
“What happens to renters? Housing prices, risks and political trust“
- Hannah Löffler, TU Munich
- 15:55 - 16:45
- Laura Kettel, GSNAS
“Governing Homelessness in the American City: Federal Innovation & Local Policy Adoption”
- Laura Kettel, GSNAS
- 16:45 - 17:35
- Christian Güse, GSNAS
"Riding the Grid – A Critical Analysis of the Restructuring of Power Relations in the Trucking Sector"
- Christian Güse, GSNAS
Keynote Speech
Dr. Gretchen Bakke
Senior Fellow, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam
“Refrigerator As Lynchpin: A Short History of the Fossil-Fueled Electricity System”
JFKI, Room 340
- 18:00 - 19:30
Reception + Conference Dinner
Restaurant Piaggio
Königin-Luise-Straße 44
- 19:30
