Lecture: 1920er vs. 2020er in globaler Perspective

Ringvorlesung-S08: Andrew Moravcsik (American Academy Berlin/Princeton) American Academy Lecture: "More Bark than Bite? The Effect of Extreme-Right Parties on Foreign Policy"

Ort: Hörsaal – Anorganik (Fabeckstr. 34-36), 14195 Berlin Coffee & Cake in R340 at John F. Kennedy Institute

Ringvorlesung-S09: Kylie Crane (University of Rostock) "Beyoncé: 'Formation‘ (2016) - #BLM and Environmental Justice“

Ort: HS Anorganik, Fabeckstr. 34-36, 14195 Berlin

Research Colloquium: Talk by Sebastian Jobs "Uncertain Knowledge of Slave Revolts in the U.S. South – a Case of Speculative History"

Ringvorlesung -S10: Reading Week

Lecture Series -S11: Simon Voss (FU Berlin) "Bruce Springsteen: 'The Ghost of Tom Joad' (1995) California amidst Homelessness and the Fentanyl Epidemic"

Ort: HS Anorganik, Fabeckstr. 34-36, 14195 Berlin

Ringvorlesung-S12: Christian Lammert (FU Berlin): Oliver Anthony: Rich Men North of Richmond (2023) -- Inequality, Trust and Populist Mobilization in the United States

Ort: HS Anorganik, Fabeckstr. 34-36, 14195 Berlin

Interdisciplinary Symposium: "Intersecting Inequalities: Race, Gender, and Capitalism in the U.S. Welfare State" at the University of Passau

Ringvorlesung -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"

Ort: HS Anorganik, Fabeckstr. 34-36, 14195 Berlin

Ringvorlesung-S12: Kira Alvarez (FU Berlin) "Leonard Bernstein: 'Kaddish' (1963) – The Making of American Classical Music Relations with Israel"

Ort: HS Anorganik, Fabeckstr. 34-36, 14195 Berlin

2024 EAAS Biannual Conference in Munich: "1924-2024: The American Immigrant Narrative Revisited"

Annual Meeting of the Historians in the DGfA announces 2024 topic: Health in American History

Annual Meeting of the Historians in the DGfA: Health in American History

See here for the full program.

Ort: Erfurt, Augustinerkloster

2024 German Association for American Studies (DGfA) Annual Meeting: "American Soundscapes"

Ringvorlesung -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"

Ort: ONLINE via Webex

ENTFÄLLT! Ringvorlesung -S06: Barbara Elias (Bowdoin College) "Alice in Chains 'Rooster' (1992): Local Allies and US Strategic Failure in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan"

Ort: ONLINE via Webex

Research Colloquium: Talk by Katherine McGrory "On the “Wrong Side of History”: Northern Ireland and the Role of Liberal Social Values in De/constructing the Irish Border"

Research Colloquium: Talk by Seung Hwan Ryu "North Korean Socialist Globalization Project in Tanzania, 1965 - 1989"

Ringvorlesung -S05: David Eisler (De Gruyter): “ Creedence Clearwater Revival: 'Fortunate Son' (1969) - Conscription and American War Fiction since Vietnam”

Ort: HS Anorganik, Fabeckstr. 34-36, 14195 Berlin

Ringvorlesung -S04: Sebastian Kohl (FU Berlin) "Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: 'Our House' (1970) - A Historical Sociology of American Housing"

Ort: HS Anorganik, Fabeckstr. 34-36, 14195 Berlin

Ringvorlesung -S03: Martin Lüthe (FU Berlin) "Boyz II Men: 'End of the Road' (1992) - Boyband Affectivity and North American Intersectionalities"

Ort: HS Anorganik, Fabeckstr. 34-36, 14195 Berlin

Research Colloquium: Talk by David Woolner " FDR in his Last 100 Days: Setting the World on the Path to Peace"

Ringvorlesung-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’”

Ort: HS Anorganik, Fabeckstr. 34-36, 14195 Berlin

Ringvorlesung -S01: Welcome, Introductiom and Discussion about “Songs that Shaped our Notions of ‘North America’”

Ort: Online lecture: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=mf49ec77c523d0fa33db416b7670f6301

54. Deutscher Historikertag in Leipzig | Fragile Sounds, Fragile Humanities: Visions of Musical Humanity in the Transatlantic World Since World War II with Jessica Gienow-Hecht, Esteban Buch, Anaïs Fléchet and Tobias Hof

Moved Online: “The Meaning of the Marshall Plan. The Media and the Message”: Talk by David W. Ellwood in the BA Seminar “Images of the Marshall Plan”

“Goddam Dangerous”: The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited - A Stage Reading of Historical Documents

Keynote Lecture of "Contested Canada": Manuel Menrath (PH Luzern) in discussion with Mike Metatawabin (Fort Albany, former Deputy Chief of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation): "'As Long as the Sun Shines': Treaty-Making and Sovereignty in Indigenous Ontario"

Roundtable: The Global History of the Monroe Doctrine," with Zhang Yongle (Peking University), Jessica Gienow-Hecht, Nadja Klopprogge, Georg Schild (Universität Tübingen) and others

"Contested Canada: Navigating Past, Present and Future Sovereignties": 20th Annual Conference of the Emerging Scholars Forum

Tiffany Florvil (University of New Mexico) will hold a lecture at the FMI about "Rethinking Black Internationalisms in the late 20th Century

Ort: Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut (FU Berlin) Koserstraße 20 Room A.336

History Research Colloquium: Tobias Hof (LMU Munich/University of Toronto) will give a talk on: "Famine, Civil War, and the Politics of Humanitarian Interventionism during the Ethiopian Famine in the 1980s" (online)"

International Week: Citizens of the World, Academic Freedom in a Global Perspective

FMI Midterm Lecture: Jennifer Evans (Carleton University) will speak about "The Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship After Fascism"

Thomas Franck Lecture: Samuel Moyn (Yale University) will speak about "Liberalism between Two Cold Wars"

SCRIPTS Guest Lecture: Ayelet Shachar (University of Toronto) in discussion with Steffen Mau on "Shifting Borders and Shrinking Spaces for Rights"

History Research Colloquium: Ben Goossen (University of Chicago) will give a talk on: "Inventing Planet Earth: A History of the 1957-1958 International Geophysical Year"

“Welcome to the Liberal State”: Tobias Klee, Lesar Yurtsever, Marlene Ritter, and Jessica will be presenting a panel at the New Diplomatic History conference in Turku on 25 May 2023

"Welcome to the Liberal State: Place Branding as a Diplomatic Practice, 1920s-1950s", panel discussion with Marlene Ritter, Tobias Klee, Lesar Yurtsever and Jessica Gienow-Hecht

Call for Papers: "Contested Mobilities in U.S. History" for the Annual Conference of the Historians of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS)

Marlene Ritter will present her on-going research on Western European image politics after World War II in the Alcide de Gasperi Seminar Series

Research Colloquium: "Famine, Civil War, and the Politics of Humanitarian Interventionism during the Ethiopian Famine in the 1980s" - Tobias Hof

Research Colloquium: “Never Been So Ashamed”: 1960s Pro-Civil Rights Youth and Birth of White Fragility" - Susan Eckelmann

Research Colloquium: "Of Pathogens and Humans: A History of the Policies on Epidemics in the British and American Empires (c. 1800-1920)" - Andrea Wiegeshoff

Research Colloquium: "Indigenous Agency: Two Case Studies from Canada" - Anne van der Pas & Lea Kröner

Research Colloquium: "(Battle) Panoramas as Performative Public Histories" - Thorsten Logge

FMI Midterm Lecture: Ekaterina Pravilova (Princeton University) will give a talk on "The Ruble: A Political History"

Ort: Hörsaal B Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut Koserstr. 20 14195 Berlin

Research Colloquium: "History, Disrupted: How Social Media and the World Wide Web Have Changed the Past" - Jason Steinhauer

Penny Von Eschen (University of Virginia): Paradoxes of Nostalgia: Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder since 1989

Ort: 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"

Ort: 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"

Ort: 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"

Ort: 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"

Ort: Seminar Room 201 John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin

"Another Marshall Plan? Myths and Truths 75 Years Later": Discussion with David W. Ellwood, Jessica Gienow-Hecht, Sergey Lagodinsky and Petra Pinzler

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)"

Ort: 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'"

Ort: Seminar Room 201 John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin

Library tours at the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institute for students

History Research Colloquium: Jacob Birken (University of Cologne) will give a talk on "Timeless Designs: The Material Culture of 19th Century US Utopianism"

Ort: Seminar Room 201 John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin

Forschung im Dialog mit Jan C. Jansen und Berenika Szymanski-Düll

Book Presentation: "Le président est-il devenu fou?" by Patrick Weil moderated by Prof. Gienow-Hecht

Research Colloquium: Brad Morith (Texas A & M University) will speak on “Für einen parallelen Ansatz”: American, West German, and East German Economic Policy Planning to Reform the German Democratic

A talk by Kenneth Marcus on "Composing about Concentration Camps. Hanns Eisler's German Symphony"

Research Colloquium: David Huyssen (University of York): "Excerpts from an Intimate Social(ist) History of the Hedge Fund?"

Research Colloquium: Jana Weiss (University of Münster)

Du Bois Lecture on June 22, 2021 / Max Paul Friedman: "Prelude to Castro: The United States vs. 'Spiritual Socialism' in Guatemala, 1944-1963"

FMI Colloquium: Prof. Dr. Daniel Morat - Scheiben, die die Welt bedeuten. Die Carl Lindström AG und der entstehende Weltmusikmarkt, 1904-1929

Martha Diaz Talk: "Who Cares About Hip Hop?"

FMI Colloquium: Prof. Dr. Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann - Reinhart Koselleck als Historiker des Nationalsozialismus

Research Colloquium: Nicole Colaianni, University of Heidelberg, "Beyond the Dichotomy: Framing Sexual Harrassment"

Research Colloquium: Cora-Schmidt-Ott, University of Tübingen

JFKI Panel on American Violence

Markus Bierkoch Event: Alcohol, Groceries and Gastronomy: Economic Niches & German-A​merican Associations in New York

Lecture Series: Harald Wenzel (FU Berlin) will talk about "Communicating the Dust Bowl Crisis. Disaster Management, Compassion and the Media"

Ort: 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"

Ort: Online (via the Cisco based Software WebEx events) Event address: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/onstage/g.php?MTID=e7d5e2c9af27304e3a25d4200a19d7c3e

BA Seminar: Andréa Greene: “Pregnancy Outcome Disparity Between Black and White Americans”

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"

Ort: WebEx Online Event

Lecture Series: Betsy Leimbigler (FU Berlin) will talk about "Power, Inclusion, and the politics of COVID-19: Policy responses”

Ort: 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"

Ort: WebEx Online Event

Highlights im Colloquium für Neuere Geschichte und Zeitgeschichte

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"

Ort: 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"

Ort: 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 "

Ort: Online via the Cisca based Software Webex events. Event address: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/onstage/g.php?MTID=ea61e948cf6077da7d39acbdd71f663b8

FMI-Ringvorlesung: Michaela Hampf, "The Rise and Fall of America: Umbruch durch Krisenmanagement und soziale Sicherheit im New Deal, 1932-1941"

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"

Ort: WebEx Online Event

Lecture Series: Ana-Constantina Frost (FU Berlin) will talk about "Disaster, Diseases and Displacement: Migration Control in the 21st Century"

Ort: Online (via the Cisco based Software WebEx events) Event address: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/onstage/g.php?MTID=e35f8032505562f51da26e3476987bb5c

Briana Edmonds: Being Black in Birthwork

Lecture Series: Eva Horn (Universität Wien) will talk about "Pandemic as Political Phantasy"

Ort: 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”

Ort: 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"

Ort: Online (via the Cisco based Software WebEx events) Event address: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/onstage/g.php?MTID=e0be36cd139517be564326ff8103ba85f

Annie Kocher: The Role of the Doula in Queer Reproductive Justice

Lecture Series. Cameron Seglias (FU Berlin) will talk about "Slavery, Colonial Crisis, and the Biopolitics of Containment in Eighteenth-Century America"

Ort: 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”

Ort: WebEx Online Event

Lecture Series: Daniel Dieckelmann (FU Berlin) will talk about "Recurring Catastrophes: Causes and Consequences of Financial Crises in North America"

Ort: 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)

Ort: Webex Online Event

Hamilton Film: US-Botschaft Livestream am 10.7.20 mit Jessica Gienow-Hecht

Talk by Giles Scott-Smith (Leiden University) on "Transatlantic Cultural Relations, Soft Power, and the Role of US Cultural Diplomacy in Europe"

Talk by Jill Edy (University of Oklahoma) on "Public Memory v. The Memory of Publics: Media Fragmentation, News, Practices, and Collective Memory"

Talk by Amy C. Beal (University of California, Santa Cruz) on “New Music, New (Old) Allies: American Music in Postwar and Cold War West Germany Thoughts on Research”

History Research Colloquium: Hugo Frey (University of Chichester) and Laurike in ‘t Veld (Erasmus University of Rotterdam) will give a talk on “Historiographical aspects in Graphic Novels”

History Research Colloquium: Jean Michel Turcotte will give a talk on "In the Spirit of the Geneva Convention: US Military Authorities, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Treatment of Enemy Prisoners of War during the Korean War"

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"

Ort: 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"

Ort: 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

Ort: 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"

Ort: 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"

Ort: 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

Ort: 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”

Ort: 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"

Ort: 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"

Ort: 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

Ort: Fabeckstraße 23-25 ('Holzlaube'), room 2.2051.

Workshop on the topic of “Gender and Borders” by Research Unit Borders of the Cluster of Excellence “Contestations of the Liberal Script” (SCRIPTS)

American Academy Concert and Discussion: Peace, Culture, and Remembrance

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"

Ort: 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".

Ort: Freie Universität Berlin, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin Room 203