Guest Lecture Series "US Foreign Policy in Turbulent Times" - Aditi Mukund (Global Public Policy Institute/Humboldt Foundation): "Making Feminist Sense (?) of U.S. Foreign Policy"

Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340

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

Research Colloquium Social Science – Kathia Serrano-Velarde (Heidelberg): “I just don’t give a shit anymore” – Future Oriented Career Agency and Precarity at the Postdoc Stage

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

Unsere nächste Graduiertenfeier

4. Juli 2025

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

Research Colloquium: Lecture by E.J.R. Cho: “Beyond Ukraine: Russia's Arctic Strategy for Fracturing the Western Order”

„Wissenschaft unter politischem Druck – wie frei ist die Forschung?“*

Institutsratssitzung (Ersatzsitzung)

Guest Lecture Series "US Foreign Policy in Turbulent Times" - Andreas Heinemann-Grüder (Univerity of Bonn):"What Determines a War's End? Insights from the War in Ukraine"

Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340

Vortrag von Carl-Ludwig Holtrerich: Edward A. Tenenbaum and the Deutschmark

Ort: Raum 340 John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien Lansstraße 7-9 14195 Berlin

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

Research Colloquium Social Science – Alexandra Scacco (WZB): “Anatomy of a Riot” (book presentation)

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

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

Research Colloquium Social Science: – Hans Joas (HU Berlin/University of Chicago) Book presentation of “Universalismus”

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

Symposium Culture Department

Terra Symposium

Research Colloquium: Lecture by Christian Anderson: "The Lasting Effects of Education during Reconstruction"

NYU Berlin American Studies Symposium 2025

Cyborg Writing Workshop for Students

Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Seminar Room: 340

Research Colloquium Social Science - Erdem Yörük (Koç University, University of Oxford): The Politics of the Welfare State in Turkey | University of Michigan Press

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

SCRIPTS and the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science Public Lecture

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

Guest Lecture Series "US Foreign Policy in Turbulent Times" - Rohan Mukherjee (London School of Economics): "Rising Powers and International Order in the Age of Trump"

Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340

Institutsratssitzung

Ort: Lansstr. 7-9, 14195 Berlin Raum 340

Research Colloquium: Text Reading Workshop "Reproductive Justice and the History of Grand Midwifery in the United States around 1850" by Helen Gibson

Max Steinhardt an der Türkisch-Deutschen Universität in Istanbul

Terra Symposium 2025: Queer Latinx Art

Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Seminarraum 340

Research Colloquium Social Science – Lino Wehrheim (Universität Regensburg): TBA

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

Zohal Hessami (Ruhr Uni Bochum) am Forschungsseminar für Wirtschaftswissenschaften

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

Guest Lecture Series "US Foreign Policy in Turbulent Times" - Rachel Tausendfreund (DGAP): "The New Right Foreign Policies"

Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340

Research Colloquium: Archival Workshop with William McAllister

Research Colloquium Social Science - Christopher Olk (FU Berlin): The political economy of national oil and gas companies in the global ‘energy transition’

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

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

Guest Lecture Series "US Foreign Policy in Turbulent Times" - Peter Trubowitz (London School of Economics): "Trump 2.0: Strategy or Chaos?"

Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340

Jessica Gienow-Hecht Speaks at Symposium: Quo vadis, America? part 2

Research Colloquium Social Science – Bernhard Reinsberg (University of Glasgow): Revisiting the political effectiveness of scapegoating: evidence from the International Monetary Fund

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

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

Guest Lecture Series "US Foreign Policy in Turbulent Times" -Hilde Eliassen Restad (Oslo Nye University College): "The Foreign Policy of the Right-Wing Counterrevolution"

Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340

Workshop "Historical Comparative Perspectives on Insurance", May 29-30, 2025

Ort: Room 319 John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin

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

Guest Lecture Series "US Foreign Policy in Turbulent Times" - Catherine Lu (McGill University):"Can the U.S. and Canada Ever Be Friends? Inequality, Solidarity, and Political Friendship""

Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340

Publizieren in Fachzeitschriften

Ort: Graduate School of North American Studies Lansstraße 5, 14195 Berlin

Research Colloquium: Text Reading Workshop "Be the Dictator’s Guest: Nation Brand Advertising in Authoritarian Regimes" presented by Jessica Gienow-Hecht

Research Colloquium Social Science - Ma Ming, Genia Kostka (FU Berlin): Credible Information, Strategic Signal, or Both? Authoritarian-Aligned Narratives and Public Opinion

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

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

Guest Lecture Series "US Foreign Policy in Turbulent Times" - Nathalie Tocci (Istituto Affari Internazionali): "Navigating Contradiction: Europe in an Open-Closed World"

Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340

Institutsratssitzung *abgesagt*

Ort: Raum 340

Research Colloquium: Lecture by Emily J. Levine: "Autonomy and Reciprocity: Tensions & Reconciliations in American Higher Education History"

Research Colloquium: Lecture by Justin Hart: "Executive Power and the Crisis of Modern American Democracy”

Tips for Navigating the Economic Job Market

Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstraße 7-9 14195 Berlin RAUM 201

Andreas Ferrara (Pittsburgh University) beim Forschungsseminar für Wirtschaftswissenschaften

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

Guest Lecture Series "US Foreign Policy in Turbulent Times" - Desh Girod (Georgetown University): "Frozen Assets: Greenland, Canada, and Trump's Foreign Policy"

Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340

Research Colloquium: Text Reading Workshop “Educating Liberalism: The Rockefeller Institute’s Invitation to Turkish Musicians to Set Foot in the United States” presented by Lesar Yurtsever

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

Guest Lecture Series "US Foreign Policy in Turbulent Times" - Gideon Rose (American Academy/ Council on Foreign Relations):"What's Next for European Strategy?"

Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340

Simon Voß auf der Fourth Annual Scotland and Northern England Conference in Apllied Microeconomics in Crieff

Research Colloquium: Lecture by E.J.R. Cho: "Global Hibakusha: Critical Security Views on Unfinished Nuclear Suffering"

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

Guest Lecture Series "US Foreign Policy in Turbulent Times" - Jonathan D. Caverley (Masachusetts Institute of Technology /U.S. Naval War College): "Europe Can Manage, but not Avoid, Defense Industrial Dependence""

Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340

Institutsratssitzung

Ort: Lansstr. 7-9, 14195 Berlin Raum 340

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

Max Steinhardt auf dem internationalen Workshop zum Thema: „Discrimination, Social Inclusion and Development"

Workshop "Immigration and Refugee Inflows: The Impact on Host Country Economies“

Project Workshop "The Economics of Overcrowding"

Ort: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut Lansstraße 7-9 14195 Berlin

Research Colloquium Social Science: Jayme Gomes (FU Berlin): The Rise and Fall of Theory in Sociology? A Sociology of Theoretical Knowledge

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

Brown Bag Lecture "Canada and the Trump Challenge"

Ort: John F. Kennedy Institute Room 203 Lansstraße 7-9 14195 Berlin

MA Colloquium Thesis Proposals

Abgesagt: Institutsratssitzung (Ersatzsitzung)

Ort: Raum 340

Research Colloquium Social Science: Dorothee Bohle (Vienna University): Gendering Growth Models

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

Research Colloquium: Text-Based discussion led by Ethan Ruby on "Hemingway in Love and War: The Lost Diary of Agnes von Kurowsky, Her Letters, and Correspondence of Ernest Hemingway" by Henry S. Villard and James Nagel

Ringvorlesung: Small Worlds: Literature, Performativity, and Economic Modeling

Ort: FU Berlin, Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

Research Colloquium Social Science: Charlotte Bartels (DIW, Universität Leipzig): Inequality and Voting: Evidence from Germany

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

Ringvorlesung: The future of German-American relations: opportunities and challenges under the new US administration

Ort: FU Berlin, Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

Institutsratssitzung

Ort: Raum 340

Research Colloquium Social Science: Katharina Sass (University of Bergen): Admission Impossible - School Choice in European Cities

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

Lora Anne Viola bei Nervöse Demokratie #3 USA - Hysterie und Vernunft

Ort: Nervöse Demokratie #3 USA - Hysterie und Vernunft 20. Januar 2024 | 18:30-20:00 Uhr Humboldt Lab in the Humboldt Forum Schloßplatz 1, 10178 Berlin, Eingang Passage 1. OG, Ausstellung „After Nature“

Research Colloquium: Lecture by Helen Gibson: “Beyond the Force of Necessity: Sacred Reciprocity in the Otherwise Practice of Grand Midwifery around the Time of the Falling Stars (1833)”

Inauguration Watch Party and Discussion

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

Ringvorlesung: Geoeconomics and US trade policy

Ort: FU Berlin, Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

Research Colloquium: Text-Based discussion led by Anne van der Pas on “Not a Shred of Evidence: Settler Colonial Networks of Concealment and the Birtle Indian Residential School” by Tyla Betke

Ringvorlesung: The Political Economy of Protests and Social Movements

Ort: FU Berlin, Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

Research Colloquium Social Science: Tim White (AvH Fellow, FU Berlin): When Venture Capitalists Become Landlords: The Rise and Fall of the Co-living Start-up

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

Carlo Schwarz beim Forschungsseminar in Wirtschaftswissenschaften

VERSCHOBEN: Lora Anne Viola bei “Nervöse Demokratie" mit Georg Diez

Ringvorlesung: The Impact of Social Media on US Politics

Ort: FU Berlin, Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

Research Colloquium: Lecture by K. Bailey Thomas: "Returning to the Archive: Reclaiming the Depth of the 20th Century Black Feminist Thought"

Conference: Culture and International History at JFKI Berlin

Upcoming Lecture at the Dahlem Humanities Center: Hegel Lecture with Wendy Brown: "Listening for Political Freedom"

Ringvorlesung: Outsourcing Monetary Empire: international monetary power in the age of offshore finance

"Meet the Archivist" Lecture by Prof. Dr. William McAllister

Ringvorlesung: Monstrous Monopolies: Corporations in US Legal and Literary Fictions

Ort: FU Berlin, Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

Institutsratssitzung

Ort: Raum 340

Upcoming Lecture by The American Academy in Berlin: Lecture by Nell Irvin Painter: "Sorjourner Truth, Self-Published Author of an As-Told-To Autobiography"

Guest lecture - Michael Kimmage (Catholic University of America): "What Is It with Russia and the United States? Explaining a Recurring Conflict"

Ort: JFK-I Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 340

Research Colloquium Social Science: Alexander Kentikelenis (Bocconi University): Book presentation: The Making of the Washington Consensus: The US, Global Governance, and the Down of Neoliberal Globalization

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

Ringvorlesung: Reproductive Justice and (Racial) Capitalism: Grand Midwives as Political Economic Theorists

Ort: FU Berlin, Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

Mike Cowburn (European University Viadrina): Party Transformation in Congressional Primaries: Faction and Ideology in the Twenty-first Century (tbc)

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

Research Colloquium Social Science: Barbara Fritz (FU Berlin): Global financial Safety Net

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

Research Colloquium: Text-Based discussion led by Dr. Helen Gibson on "Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants" by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Simon Voß auf der 94. Jahrestagung der Southern Economic Association

94th Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association

Ort: Washington D.C.

Ringvorlesung: Forces of Division? Migration and Unionization in American Political Polarization

Ort: FU Berlin, Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

Jordan Tama (American University): "Prospects for Foreign Policy Bipartisanship after the U.S. Election”

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

Empowerment Workshop for FLINTA* Students

Ringvorlesung: Unintended deportation outcomes: Lessons from US deportations to Latin America

Ort: FU Berlin, Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

Research Colloquium Social Science: Bence Kováts (European University Institute, Florence): 'Each Child is a New Outpost': Pronatalism in European Housing Policies in a Long View

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

Winter 2024-25 Global History Colloquium

Lora Anne Viola bei Falling Walls Science Summit

Ort: Event Location Falling Walls Science House Karl-Marx-Allee 34 10178 Berlin or online Germany

Empowerment Workshop for Neurodivergent Students

"The US Elections: A First Appraisal"

Ort: John F. Kennedy institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 340 (hybrid, online via Webex after registration at: politics@jfki.fu-berlin.de)

Ringvorlesung: Capital, labor and the US working class: a Marxian view on racial capitalism

Ort: FU Berlin, Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

Lora Anne Viola bei Harris vs. Trump – Die Analyse am Morgen danach: Was bedeutet der Ausgang der amerikanischen Präsidentschaftswahl für Deutschland und Europa?

Ort: Landesvertretung NRW Hiroshimastraße 12-16 10785 Berlin Anmeldung in Präsenz: https://table.media/events/harris-vs-trump?utm_source=nrw&utm_medium=event&utm_campaign=event_koop_nov_us24_jnz Digitale Teilnahme über Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/9417277674851/WN_w-7TQv02QBOgbG6_mk5akw#/registration

2024 US-Election Panel

Ort: JFKI Lansstr. 7-9, 14195 Berlin Raum 340

Research Colloquium: Text-Based discussion led by Prof. Jessica Gienow-Hecht on "Presidential Cold War Doctrines: What are they Good For?"