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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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

Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Tiffany Florvil (University of New Mexico) spricht über "May Ayim: A Literary Woman"

Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201

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Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Jesse Schwartz (City University 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: 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

Conference "To Be Continued:"The Novel and Forms of Narrative Continuation

Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut, Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340

Poetry Reading and Film Screening "Audre Lorde: the Berlin Years 1984-1992"

Ort: JFKI, room 340

Jane Elliott (Kings College London) hält einen Vortrag über "Live Models and the Agony of Allocative Choice”

Ort: Der Vortrag findet über Zoom statt. Weitere Informationen über die Veranstaltung und die Möglichkeit zur Anmeldung finden Sie auf der Homepage des Forschungsnetzwerks: https://model-aesthetics.com/events/

Mary Morgan (LSE) hält einen Vortrag über "Narrative Practices with Models”

Ort: Der Vortrag findet über Zoom statt. Weitere Informationen über die Veranstaltung und die Möglichkeit zur Anmeldung finden Sie auf der Homepage des Forschungsnetzwerks: https://model-aesthetics.com/events/

Leigh Claire La Berge (City University of New York) "Decommodified Labor: Work and Culture after the Wage"

Ort: Online via Webex: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m1ef3109a105de58a69997cc907c47160

ABGESAGT: Matthias Erdbeer (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster): “Notes on Modelling: A Poetics of Conceptual Representation"

Ort: Online via webex: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m5328f7e562eb4581fe1d067a7f6f0532

Opening Meeting of the DFG Research Network

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

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

Symposium: Competing American Literary Institutions around 1900

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Susanne Strätling (FU Berlin): Kulturtechniken der (Corona-)Krise: Distanzierung, Isolierung, Annullierung“

Ort: The talk was recorded and is available under the following link: https://www.oei.fu-berlin.de/institut/mediothek/Grundlagenvorlesung/index.html

Lecture Series: Gareth Davies (Oxford University) will talk about "Trump`s Administration’s Response to COVID-19"

Ort: Online (via the Cisco based Software WebEx) Event address: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/onstage/g.php?MTID=ef7182af08e84f1c9c8f8d9869a178c16

Lecture Series: Disaster and Disease in North America

Ort: Online. Event address: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/onstage/g.php?MTID=e7aaced9fc6339608e0fe39587678686e

Peter Wortsman A Reading from/ *Stimme und Atem. Out of Breath, Out of Mind*/

Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Raum 201

Re: The State of the Art. On Contemporary Poetry

Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 340

Madeleine Thien Reading

Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201

FU Review Reading

Ort: JFKI Literature Department Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 340

"Poetry Talk" on Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass", June 19th

Ort: Location: Akademie der Künste Clubraum Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin Entrance fee: 6/4 €

Yaa Gaysi Reading

Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 340

Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Matt Hills (University of Huddersfield)

Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstraße 7-9 Raum 201

Forschungskolloquium Literatur & Kultur: Sabine Broeck (Universität Bremen)

Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstraße 7-9 Raum 201

Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Chloé Thomas (Université Paris VIII)

Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstraße 7-9 Raum 201

Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Jose Saldívar (Stanford University)

Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstraße 7-9 Raum 201

Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Andrea Carosso (Università degli Studi di Torino)

Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstraße 7-9 Raum 201

Zusatztermin Forschungskolloquium Literatur & Kultur: Richard Dyer (King’s College London/St. Andrews University)

Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstraße 7-9 Raum 340

Lan Samantha Chang (Author & Director, Iowa Writer's Workshop): Reading & Discussion of the Iowa Writers Workshop Program

Ort: Raum 340

Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Marc Jancovich (University of East Anglia)

Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstraße 7-9 Raum 201

Fraenkel Lecture: Hortense Spillers, "To the Bone: Some Speculations on Touch"

Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstr. 7-9 Raum 340

Zusatztermin Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur Samuel Zipp (Brown University)

Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstraße 7-9 Raum 340

Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Liam Kennedy (UCD Clinton Institute)

Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstr. 7-9 Raum 201

Zusatztermin Forschungskolloquium Literatur&Kultur: Rosalind Gill (City, University of London)

Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstr. 7-9 Raum 340

Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Kathleen Loock (FU Berlin / DRS Fellow)

Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institute Lansstr. 7-9 Raum 201

Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Martyn Bone (University of Copenhagen)

Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstraße 7-9 Raum 201

Forschungskolloquium Literatur&Kultur: Lauren Kroiz (UC Berkeley/Terra Visiting Professor)

Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstraße 7-9 Raum 201

Exemplary-Singularity

"Exemplary Singularity - Fault Lines of the Anecdotal"

Ort: Raum 340

ERASMUS Information Day at the JFKI

Ort: JFKI, room 203

Sean Bonney: "The Destruction of America: Amiri Baraka in the 1960s"

Erasmus+ Infotag

Ort: Seminarzentrum der Freien Universität Berlin, Raum L 113 und L 115, Otto-von-Simson-Str. 26, 14195 Berlin

Workshop: Managing Racial Capital

Ringvorlesung: Martyn Bone (Copenhagen University): “The U.S. South, the Caribbean, and the Spirit (Possession) of Capitalism: Zora Neale Hurston, Russell Banks, and Erna Brodber”

Ort: Habelschwerdter Allee 45 Silberlaube, Hörsaal 1b

Ringvorlesung: Ulfried Reichardt (University of Mannheim): “’Money ... is more mental than metal’: Representations of Money, Masculinity, and Time in US-American Fiction”

Ort: Habelschwerdter Allee 45 Silberlaube, Hörsaal 1b

Configurations of the Black Atlantic

Ringvorlesung: Eva Boesenberg (Humboldt University of Berlin): “Gold and Genocide – Rethinking Money and Gender in Naturalism through Settler Colonialism”

Ort: Habelschwerdter Allee 45 Silberlaube, Hörsaal 1b

Sean Bonney (Freie Universität Berlin) "Our Death"

Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201

Ringvorlesung: Martin Lüthe (JFKI, Freie Universität Berlin) “Money Television? Cribs, Bling-Bling, and Pop Music Performance in the MTV Era”

Ort: Habelschwerdter Allee 45 Silberlaube, Hörsaal 1b

Markus Kienscherf ( JFKI): “Primitive Accumulation and the Violence of Capital”

Ort: Habelschwerdter Allee 45 Silberlaube, Hörsaal 1b

Ringvorlesung: MaryAnn Snyder-Körber (JFKI): “Return on Investment: 20th-Century Arts Funding and the Arts of Literary Payback”

Anne Potjans (HU Berlin) “Distant Connections” – Diasporic Identity and Black Feminist Knowldedge in Audre Lorde’s Zami and Ika Hügel-Marshall’s Daheim Unterwegs

Ort: Raum 201

Caroline Levander (Rice University) De-Ciphering American Literature: 1945 - 1840 - 2016 Donnerstag,

Ort: Room 340

An Evening with Tom Franklin (University of Mississippi) - Reading and Discussion

Ort: JFKI Room 201

Ernst Fraenkel Lecture by Frederick C. Moten (UC Riverside): "The History of Blackness"

Ort: JFKI Room 340

An Evening with Beth Ann Fennelly - Reading and Discussion

"The Emergence of the New"- A Symposium in Honor of Heinz Ickstadt

Ort: JFKI Raum 340

"'Go Slow Now': Faulkner and the Turmoil of Civil Rights in America"

Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Russ Castronovo (University of Wisconsin-Madison): “James Fenimore Cooper and the NSA: Security, Property, Liberalism”

New Media Writing: Copying, Appropriating, and Materializing in the 21st Century

Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Winfried Fluck (JFKI) "Narratives About America: Changing Images of America in American Studies"

Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Fraenkel Lecture – Linda Williams (UC Berkeley): "Serial, Television, Melodrama."

Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: John Durham Peters (University of Iowa): “Joseph Smith’s Discourse Networks”

Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Heather Diack (University of Miami): "Second Degree Burn: Material Realities in American Photography"

Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Winfried Siemerling (University of Waterloo): “The Black Atlantic Reconsidered: Black Canadian Literature as Critical Intervention”

Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Julia Leyda (Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam): "Cute 21st-Century Post-Fem-Bots"

Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Edwin Hill (USC): "Black Static and the Freedom of Sound"

Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Alexander Weheliye (Northwestern University): "Black Life: Inhabitations of the Flesh"

Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Nicole Waller (Universität Potsdam): “ ‘No group is an island’? US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s 'My Beloved World' (2013) and the Reconceptualization of American Territoriality”

Forschungskolloquium Literatur/Kultur: Nathalia King (Portland, Reed College): "Gertrude Stein's 'Melanctha' in Three Lives -- an analysis of her use of repetition in the depiction of race"

Joy V. Fuqua: Unmaking Treece, Kansas

Ort: Raum 203

Workshop "Uncertainty/Risk/Management"

Ort: Seminarraum (GSNAS Villa)

Ehrendoktorwürde für Hayden White

Ort: Henry-Ford-Bau Theatersaal (Hörsaal A) 14195 Berlin-Dahlem

Abschlusspanel der Ringvorlesung WS 2014/15

Ort: R. 340