Events
94th Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association
Location: Washington D.C.
Research Colloquium Social Science: Barbara Fritz (FU Berlin): Global financial Safety Net
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Lecture Series: Reproductive Justice and (Racial) Capitalism: Grand Midwives as Political Economic Theorists
Location: FU Berlin, Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
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
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Guest lecture - Michael Kimmage (Catholic University of America): "What Is It with Russia and the United States? Explaining a Recurring Conflict"
Location: JFK-I Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 340
Lecture Series: Monstrous Monopolies: Corporations in US Legal and Literary Fictions
Location: FU Berlin, Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Lecture Series: The Impact of Social Media on US Politics
Location: 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
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Lecture Series: The Political Economy of Protests and Social Movements
Location: FU Berlin, Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Lecture Series: Geoeconomics and US trade policy
Location: FU Berlin, Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Research Colloquium Social Science: Katharina Sass (University of Bergen): Admission Impossible - School Choice in European Cities
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Ringvorlesung: The future of German-American relations: opportunities and challenges under the new US administration
Location: FU Berlin, Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Research Colloquium Social Science: Charlotte Bartels (DIW, Universität Leipzig): Inequality and Voting: Evidence from Germany
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Lecture Series: Small Worlds: Literature, Performativity, and Economic Modeling
Location: FU Berlin, Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Research Colloquium Social Science: Dorothee Bohle (Vienna University): Gendering Growth Models
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Research Colloquium Social Science: Jayme Gomes (FU Berlin): The Rise and Fall of Theory in Sociology? A Sociology of Theoretical Knowledge
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Project Workshop "The Economics of Overcrowding"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstraße 7-9 14195 Berlin
Our next graduation ceremony
July 4, 2025
Jordan Tama (American University): "Prospects for Foreign Policy Bipartisanship after the U.S. Election”
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Lecture Series: Unintended deportation outcomes: Lessons from US deportations to Latin America
Location: 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
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 201
Lora Anne Viola at Falling Walls Science Summit
Location: Event Location Falling Walls Science House Karl-Marx-Allee 34 10178 Berlin or online Germany
"The US Elections: A First Appraisal"
Location: 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)
Lecture Series: Capital, labor and the US working class: a Marxian view on racial capitalism
Location: FU Berlin, Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Lora Anne Viola at Harris vs. Trump –The Analysis the morning after: What does the outcome of the American presidential election for Germany and Europe?
Location: Landesvertretung NRW Hiroshimastraße 12-16 10785 Berlin Please register here in order to attend the event: https://table.media/events/harris-vs-trump?utm_source=nrw&utm_medium=event&utm_campaign=event_koop_nov_us24_jnz For online participation via Zoom please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/9417277674851/WN_w-7TQv02QBOgbG6_mk5akw#/registration
2024 US-Election Panel
Location: JFKI Lansstr. 7-9, 14195 Berlin Room 340
Guest Lecture by Peter S. Onuf (University of Virginia): "Declarations of War, Aspirations for Peace"
Location: JFKI R319
Lecture Series: The Grown-up in Infant's Clothing. The U.S. Protectionist Relapse in the Interwar Period
Location: FU Berlin, Hs 1b Hörsaal (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
Lora Anne Viola, Julia Simon and Christian Lammert @Trump vs. Harris. Countdown to the US Election
Location: Online via ClickMeeting (technical requirement: https://www.atlantische-akademie.de/technik/
Orientation Week Bachelor & Master in North American Studies 2023/24
This year's orientation week at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies will take place on the following dates: BA program (mono BA and combi BA) : Wednesday - Oct 9 from 10 AM to 4 PM MA program: Thursday - Oct 10 from 10 AM to 4 PM Topics related to the BA and MA program: Friday - Oct 11 from 10 AM to 4 PM Newly enrolled students can just attend the orientation days without prior registration or notification.
North American Meeting of the Urban Economics Association
Location: Georgetown University, Washington D.C.
ENHR conference: Making Housing systmes work: evidence and solutions
Location: TU Delft
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Cécile Coquet-Mokoko (Université Versailles-St Quentin) will give a talk on “Race traitors? Perceptions and Coping Strategies of Black/White interracial couples in the American South and France, 2010-2020”
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Cinzia Scarpino (Università degli Studi di Milano) will give a talk on “Introducing American Authors to Italian Readers: Transnational Trajectories and Idiosyncratic Translation Policies (1930- 1974)”
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Seth Masket (University of Denver): "Still Trump´s Party: How Local Republican Leaders made up their Minds in the 2024 Presidential Nomination"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340
2024 Conference of the DFG Network Research Group Model Aesthetics - Between Literary and Economic Knowledge
Location: John F. Kennedy institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Karin Höpker (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) will give a talk on “Confidence and the ‘Contortions of Money’— Market Fiction & Herman Diaz’s Trust“
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Winfried Siemerling (University of Waterloo) & Karina Vernon (University of Toronto) will give a talk on “Call and Response-ability: Black Canadian Art and Audience“
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Research Colloquium S8 - Richard Sigurdson (Visiting Professor, Calgary University): North American Christian Nationalism in a Trans-Atlantic Context
This open lecture is part of the combined research colloquium of the Political Science & Sociology Departments of the JFK-I.
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 R319
Guest Lecture: Michaela Keck (Universität Oldenburg) will give a talk on "Louisa May Alcott's 'Little Patients': Representations of Health, Illness, and Repair"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R319
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Rizvana Bradley (Terra Visiting Professor/ University of California, Berkeley) will give a talk on “The Corporeal Division of the World: On Anteaesthetics“
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Research Colloquium Social Science - Laura Seelkopf (Universität München): Gender Discrimination in Taxation
This open lecture is part of the combined research colloquium of the Political Science & Sociology Departments of the JFK-I.
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 R319
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Kathleen Loock (Leibniz Universität Hannover) will give a talk on “Hollywood Remaking: Memory, Nostalgia, and Generational Identities from Stella Dallas to Ghostbusters“
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware - God, Guns, and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America
Location: Online via Webex Please register at politics@jfki.fu-berlin.de to receive the link
Research Colloquium S6 - Eric Monnet (Paris School of Economics): Central banks and the absorption of international shocks (1890-2021)
This open lecture is part of the combined research colloquium of the Political Science & Sociology Departments of the JFK-I.
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 R319
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Laura Bieger (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) will give a talk on “The Underground Railroad and the Promise of Infrastructure“
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Research Colloquium S5 - Mike Cowburn (Viadrina University Frankfurt/Oder): Mouthpiece or Mobilizers? Right-Wing Media, Republican Elites, and “Critical Race Theory
This open lecture is part of the combined research colloquium of the Political Science & Sociology Departments of the JFK-I.
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 R319
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Andrew Gross (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) will give a talk on “Eclogue at the End of History: The Best American Poetry of 1990“
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Research Colloquium S4 - Valentina Ausserladscheider (Universität Wien): Sociology of Stranded Assets
This open lecture is part of the combined research colloquium of the Political Science & Sociology Departments of the JFK-I.
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 R319
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Martina J. Kohl (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) reading from her novel Family Matters: Of Life in Two Worlds (PalmArtPress Berlin, 2023)
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R340
Research Colloquium S3 - Laura Kettel (Aarhus University): State-Level Housing Policy
This open lecture is part of the combined research colloquium of the Political Science & Sociology Departments of the JFK-I.
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 R319
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: Barbara von Bechtolsheim (Yale University) will give a talk on “Passion for Life: Hannah Arendt and Heinrich Blücher”
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
Annual Meeting of the Historians in the DGfA: Health in American History
See here for the full program.
Location: Erfurt, Augustinerkloster
Research Colloquium S2 - Cathie Jo Martin (Boston University) - Book presentation: Education for All? Literature, Culture and Education Development in Britain and Denmark
This open lecture is part of the combined research colloquium of the Political Science & Sociology Departments of the JFK-I.
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 R319
Narratives of American Culture in Dialogue
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute, Lansstr. 7-9, 14195 Berlin Room 340
Research Colloquium S1 - Michael Schwan (U of Groningen), Marc Schneiberg (Reed College), Mark Cassell (Kent State U) : Conventional Politics, Path Dependency, and the Distribution of Paycheck Protection Program Loans Across Congressional
This open lecture is part of the combined research colloquium of the Political Science & Sociology Departments of the JFK-I.
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 R319
Research Colloquium Literature/Culture: David Grundy (Humboldt Fellow/ Freie Universität Berlin) will give a talk on “Survival Music: Free Jazz Then and Now”
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R201
DASI Shoptalk: Project Shorts and Peer-to-Peer Support (German Association for American Studies)
Location: online via Zoom
Social Science Research Colloquium: Derek John Hattemer (University of Basel): Underwriting Autarky. Commercial Life insurance for the Masses in Interwar Germany and Italy, 1923-1939
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R319
Lecture Series– S13: Sönke Kunkel (FU Berlin): "The Pogues: The Body of an American (1985) -- Migration and Public History in North America"
Location: HS Anorganik, Fabeckstr. 34-36, 14195 Berlin
Race, Multilateral Institutions and International Relations - S09: Mariam Salehi (FU Berlin): The 'Justice Industry' and Struggles For Racial Justice
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 340
Research Colloquium: Talk by Prof. Davide Rodogno: "Night on Earth: Objectives, Activities and Delusions of Western Humanitarian Organisations in the Near East in the Aftermath of the First World War"
The talk will be held in room 201 at 6 pm .
Lecture Series: Christopher Ohge (University of London) "Mastodon: 'Blood and Thunder' (2004) - Herman Melville and Computational Literary Studies"
Location: HS Anorganik, Fabeckstr. 34-36, 14195 Berlin
CANCELED: Race, Multilateral Institutions and International Relations - S08: Robert Knox (University of Liverpool): On Racial Capitalism
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 340
Social Science Research Colloquium: Thomas Rixen (FU Berlin): Explaining Institutional Change in Global Finance
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R319
Lecture Series -S12: Christian Lammert (FU Berlin): Oliver Anthony: Rich Men North of Richmond (2023) -- Inequality, Trust and Populist Mobilization in the United States
Location: HS Anorganik, Fabeckstr. 34-36, 14195 Berlin
Race, Multilateral Institutions and International Relations - S07: Tarak Barkawi (London School of Economics): Race and battle in the Production of the Military History: The US in Korea, 1950-51
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 340
Social Science Research Colloquium: Sascha Münnich (European University of Viadrina): Varieties of Anti-Capitalism: On the problem of building a trans-national movements for the regulation of financial markets across European democracies
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R319
Lecture Series -S11: Simon Voss (FU Berlin) "Bruce Springsteen: 'The Ghost of Tom Joad' (1995) California amidst Homelessness and the Fentanyl Epidemic"
Location: 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"
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin Room 201
Lecture Series -S09: Kylie Crane (University of Rostock) "Beyoncé: 'Formation‘ (2016) - #BLM and Environmental Justice“
Location: HS Anorganik, Fabeckstr. 34-36, 14195 Berlin
Race, Multilateral Institutions and International Relations - S06: Ayse Zarakol (University of Cambridge): Is the Disorder of Our Times Unprecedented?
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 340
Social Science Research Colloquium: Marcin Serafin (Polish Academy of Sciences); Studying Inflation Experiences through Diaries
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin R319
Lecture Series -S08: Andrew Moravcsik (American Academy Berlin/Princeton) American Academy Lecture: "More Bark than Bite? The Effect of Extreme-Right Parties on Foreign Policy"
Location: Hörsaal – Anorganik (Fabeckstr. 34-36), 14195 Berlin Coffee & Cake in R340 at John F. Kennedy Institute
Race, Multilateral Institutions and International Relations - S05: Siba N. Grovogui (Cornell University): No Partial Public Sympathies: Ethics of Justice and Citizenship in the African Diaspora
Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Lansstr. 7-9 14195 Berlin Room 340