Termine
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur S12 - Julia Faisst (TU Dortmund): "Disappearing Children: Border Narratives of Underage Migration"
Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Seminarraum 201
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur S13 - Katharina Gerund (University of Zurich):"The Waiting Wives of the Forever Wars: Military Spouses in Post-9/11 US Culture"
Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Seminarraum 201
Book Discussion – Robert Gooding-Williams (Yale University): Democracy and Beauty: The Political Aesthetics of W. E. B. Du Bois
Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Lansstr. 7–9, 14195 Berlin, Room 203
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur S11 - Christa Buschendorf (University of Frankfurt): "Artists and Intellectuals in Times of Repression: A Symposium on 'Art and Morals' at Smith College in 1953"
Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Seminarraum 201
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur S10 - Russ Castronovo (University of Wisconsin-Madison): “Frozen Subjectivity: Vulnerability and Aesthetics at the End of the World.”
Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Seminarraum 201
Terra Symposium 2025: Queer Latinx Art
Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Seminarraum 340
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur S09 - Katja Sarkowsky (University of Augsburg): "Writing Rivers: Water, Relationality, and Political Critique"
Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Seminarraum 201
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur S08 - Alexis Salas (Terra Professor): “Plant Papi Politics: Queer Latinx Artists Re-grounding Nature"
Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Seminarraum 201
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur S07 - Werner Sollors (Harvard University): "Approaches to American Literature in Cosmopolitan and Ethnic Contexts"
Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Seminarraum 201
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur S06 - Andrew Hartman (Illinois State University): "Karl Marx in America"
Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Seminarraum 201
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur S05 - Sianne Ngai (University of Chicago): "Inhabiting Error: From “Last Christmas” to “Senior’s Last Hour”"
Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Seminarraum 201
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture S04 - Heike Paul (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg): "From Lost Colony to Lost Cause: American Beginnings Revisited"
Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur S03 - Birte Christ (University of Tübingen): "Why Helmut Read Hemingway : American Authors and the Post-War (Re-)Construction of a Broad German Reading Public"
Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Seminarraum 201
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur S02 - Dustin Breitenwischer (University of Hamburg): "You just take a look at him once in a while": Ralph Ellison’s Frederick Douglass
Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Seminarraum 201
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur S01 - Marco Caracciolo (Ghent University): "Algorithms, Gamification, and the Ambiguities of Play in Richard Powers’s Playground"
Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Seminarraum 201
Guest Lecture by Peter S. Onuf (University of Virginia): "Declarations of War, Aspirations for Peace"
Ort: JKFI R319
ABGESAGT: Cécile Coquet-Mokoko (Université Versailles-St Quentin) spricht über “Race traitors? Perceptions and Coping Strategies of Black/White interracial couples in the American South and France, 2010-2020”
Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Cinzia Scarpino (Università degli Studi di Milano) spricht über “Introducing American Authors to Italian Readers: Transnational Trajectories and Idiosyncratic Translation Policies (1930- 1974)”
Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Karin Höpker (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) spricht über “Confidence and the ‘Contortions of Money’— Market Fiction & Herman Diaz’s Trust“
Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Winfried Siemerling (University of Waterloo) & Karina Vernon (University of Toronto) spricht über “Call and Response-ability: Black Canadian Art and Audience“
Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Gastvortrag: Michaela Keck (Universität Oldenburg) spricht über "Louisa May Alcott's 'Little Patients': Representations of Health, Illness, and Repair"
Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R319
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Rizvana Bradley (Terra Visiting Professor/ University of California, Berkeley) spricht über “The Corporeal Division of the World: On Anteaesthetics“
Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Kathleen Loock (Leibniz Universität Hannover) spricht über “Hollywood Remaking: Memory, Nostalgia, and Generational Identities from Stella Dallas to Ghostbusters“
Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Laura Bieger (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) spricht über “The Underground Railroad and the Promise of Infrastructure“
Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Andrew Gross (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) spricht über “Eclogue at the End of History: The Best American Poetry of 1990“
Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Martina J. Kohl (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) liest aus ihrem Roman Family Matters: Of Life in Two Worlds (PalmArtPress Berlin, 2023)
Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Barbara von Bechtolsheim (Yale University) spricht über “Passion for Life: Hannah Arendt and Heinrich Blücher”
Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Narratives of American Culture in Dialogue
Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut, Lansstr. 7-9, 14195 Berlin Raum 340
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: David Grundy (Humboldt Fellow/ Freie Universität Berlin) spricht über “Survival Music: Free Jazz Then and Now”
Ort: 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"
Ort: JFKI, room 340
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Jesse Schwartz (City University of New York) spricht über "The Bolshevik Revolution, Racial Socialism, and US Print Culture, 1886-1924"
Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Gabriele Schwab (University of California, Irvine) spricht über "Transspecies Imaginaries"
Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Katrin Horn (Universität Bayreuth) spricht über "Bad Manners, Good Business: Society Columns in the Late Nineteenth Century"
Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Terra Symposium 2023: Home / Habitat
Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut, Lansstr. 7-9, 14195 Berlin Raum 319
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Julia Rosenbaum (Bard College/ Terra Foundation Visiting Professor 2023) spricht über "What Means This Carnage?”: Civil War Soldiers’ Bodies and the Army Medical Museum
Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Lara Langer Cohen (Swarthmore College) spricht über "The Underground Railroad’s Undergrounds"
Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R319
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Nattie Golubov (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) spricht über "The Pleasures of Reading Popular Romance Fiction"
Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Joel Pfister (Wesleyan University) spricht über "Partners in Crime: American Movies, Systemic Complicity, and the Big Picture"
Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Susan Bernofsky (August-Wilhelm-von-Schlegel-Gastprofessorin für Poetik, FU Berlin) spricht über "Mine or Yours? Literary Translation as Creative Writing in the U.S.-American Context"
Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R319
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Alexandra Ganser (Universität Wien) spricht über "Thinking Astrofuturism with Jacques Lacan and Hannah Arendt"
Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Richard Peña (Columbia University) spricht über "Brave New World: Yiddish Cinema in America"
Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Winfried Fluck (Freie Universität Berlin) spricht über "Critical Theories, Populist Utopias, and Unforeseen Developments: Changing Narratives about the Mass Media in American Studies"
Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Ruth Mayer (Leibniz Universität Hannover) spricht über "The Original Flapper is a Copy: Modernist Periodicals, Serial Circulation and the Modern Girl Multiplied"
Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Iryna Yakovenko (Borys-Grinchenko-Universität Kyiv) spricht über "Chornobyl and the Exclusion Zone as a Lived Experience and a Trope in American Literature: From Nonfiction to Thrillers"
Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Mahshid Mayar (Universität zu Köln) spricht über "The World in Pieces: Home, Empire, and Childhood in the 1890s"
Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Scott Zukowski (Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz) spricht über "Freedom’s Journal and the Intermedial Power of Early Black Periodicals"
Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
CANCELED: Gabriele Schwab (University of California, Irvine) im Forschungskolloquium Kultur & Literatur
CANCELED
Ort: Raum 340
Evangelia Kindinger (Humboldt Universität Berlin) im Forschungskolloquium Kultur & Literatur
Ort: Raum 340
MaryAnn Snyder-Körber (Universität Würzburg) im Forschungskolloquium Kultur & Literatur
Ort: Raum 340
JoAnne Mancini (Maynooth University / TERRA Visiting Professor) im Forschungskolloquium Kultur & Literatur
Ort: Raum 340
EXTRA-SITZUNG: Brett Mills (University of East Anglia) im Forschungskolloquium Kultur & Literatur
Ort: Raum 319
Marie-Jeanne Rossignol (Université Paris Diderot) im Forschungskolloquium Kultur & Literatur
Ort: Raum 340
Fabián Orán Llarena (Universidad de La Laguna) im Forschungskolloquium Kultur & Literatur
Ort: Raum 340
Leigh Claire La Berge (City University of New York | Humboldt Fellow) im Forschungskolloquium Kultur & Literatur
Ort: Raum 340
Matthew D. Morrison (New York University | DHC Fellow) im Forschungskolloquium Kultur & Literatur
Ort: Raum 340
ABGESAGT: Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: MaryAnn Snyder-Körber (Universität Würzburg) spricht über “Everybody’s Protest Poem: Articulating Translation in Perspectives / Perspektiven USA”
Ort: Der Vortrag wird zu einem anderen Termin im Wintersemester 20/21 nachgeholt.
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Myka Tucker-Abramson (University of Warwick | Humboldt Fellow) spricht über “The Road Novel’s Spatial Fix: Towards a Materialist Theory of the Road Novel”
Ort: 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
Ort: Online Event
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Michael Thomas (Susquehanna University | Humboldt Fellow) spricht über “W.E.B. Du Bois and the Aesthetic Problem(s) of Race”
Ort: Online via Webex Meetings https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m51053f2826b8cff75d762105a062fdfb
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Angela Miller (Washington University in St. Louis) spricht über “Unbounded: The Expanded Worlds of the 1940s”
Ort: Online via Webex Meetings https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m51053f2826b8cff75d762105a062fdfb
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Sanders Isaac Bernstein (University of Southern California | Visiting Researcher) spricht über “American (Proto) Fascism, 1914-1933”
Ort: Online via Webex Meetings: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m8cd74d269d7a7440ee91ed62f5b262c9
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Klaus Benesch (Universität München) spricht über “The Responsibility of Intellectuals”
Ort: Online via Webex Meetings https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m51053f2826b8cff75d762105a062fdfb
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: David Getsy (School of the Arts Institute Chicago | Terra Visiting Professor) spricht über “Enduring out: Geoffrey Hendricks’s Ring Piece and the Ambivalence of Queer Visibility in 1971”
Ort: Online via Webex Meetings: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m4831f1dc2ab5397a4d9dd1c892b418f3
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Merve Emre (University of Oxford | Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin) spricht über “Once More, the Return to Philology”
Ort: Online via Webex Meetings https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m51053f2826b8cff75d762105a062fdfb
Forschungskolloqium Literatur/Kultur: Sabine Sielke (Universität Bonn) spricht über “Feminism Reloaded? The Serial Debate on Sexual Harassment and Violence, or: What’s New about #MeToo?”
Ort: Online via Webex Meetings https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m51053f2826b8cff75d762105a062fdfb
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Robert Reid-Pharr (Harvard University) spricht über “Archives and Icons: James Baldwin and the Practice of Celebrity”
Ort: Online via Webex Meetings https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m51053f2826b8cff75d762105a062fdfb
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Moritz Ingwersen (TU Dresden) spricht über “Indigenous Petrofiction: Settler-Colonial Extractivism and the Resurgence of Fossils”
Ort: Online via Webex Meetings https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m51053f2826b8cff75d762105a062fdfb
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Allison Blakely (Boston University) spricht über “Europe as African and African-American Refuge from Racism: Germany’s Record”
Ort: Online via Webex Meetings https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m51053f2826b8cff75d762105a062fdfb
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Elahe Haschemi Yekani (HU Berlin) spricht über “Enslavement in British Memorial Culture: Between Nostalgia and Toppled Monuments”
Ort: 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"
Ort: Online via Webex Meetings https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m51053f2826b8cff75d762105a062fdfb
Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Simon Strick (ZeM Brandenburg) spricht über “American Studies Uncanceled"
Ort: 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"
Ort: The lecture will be held online on the platform Webex.
African Atlantic Research Group
Ort: 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
Ort: 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
Ort: Hs 1b Hörsaal Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin
FU Review Winter Reading 'Current Works'
Ort: 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
Ort: 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
Ort: JFKI Caféte (basement) Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin