Politisches Bildungsforum Hessen: Der politisch-kulturelle US-amerikanische Einfluss auf Hessen, Deutschland und Europa

Location: Museum Reinhard Ernst Wilhelmstraße 1, 65185 Wiesbaden

Workshop with Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Location: Room 340

JFKI and FMI BA Conference

Ever wondered what topics BA students dedicate months of research to? From German history and gender studies to global power structures, our BA Student Conference offers insight into the diversity of undergraduate research. The JFKI & FMI BA Student Conference brings together undergraduate students from the Friedrich Meinecke Institute and the John F. Kennedy Institute at the Freie Universität Berlin to present their current research projects in history, culture, politics, and society. Join us for a day of engaging presentations that showcase how diverse, critical, and innovative BA-level research can be. The conference offers a space for academic exchange, discussion, and the exploration of ideas that connect past and present.

Location: Lansstraße 7-9, Rm 319

Archival Workshop with William McAllister

Location: Room 319

Research Colloquium: Lecture by William B. McAllister: Why Don’t They Pay Attention to Us? Observations about the Academic-Policymaker Gap

Writing Retreat: Between Empire and Exile -- African American Thought and the German Colonial Imagination

Location: Oxford Room (Stabi Lab) Unter Den Linden 8 10117 Berlin

Workshop with Ela Przybyło

Location: Room 340

Global History Colloquium / FMI Mid-Term Lecture: Anne Gerritsen (University of Warwick) on "The Object of History: How Things Can Help Us Write Early Modern History"

Location: Koserstraße 20 A336

Research Colloquium: Text Reading Workshop: Kira Alvarez, Freie Universität Berlin, Ekaterina Babintseva, "Engineering the Lay Mind: Lev Landa’s Algo-Heuristic Theory and Artificial Intelligence"

María Cecilia Schwedhelm Ramirez and Veronica Bayiha ñwa Quillien: "Language Reclamation as Reproductive Justice"

Location: LOCATION CHANGE This event will now occur at Iltisstraße 1-4, Room K009

Dr. Reiko Füting, Composer and Professor, Manhattan School of Music Speaking as part of Kira Alvarez’s seminar “Politics of Sound: The Twentieth-Century Classical Music World in the United States” Seminar

Location: Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin Room 340

Invitation: Postliberales Denken und der Verlust der Mäßigung

Research Colloquium: Lecture by Carrie Bly: Architectural History and “the biggest business in the world, the business of the United States Government”

Conference: Law and Order: Modes of Policing and Resistance in American History

Conversation with the author Doug Woodham

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

Workshop Invitation: "Between Empire and Exile: African American Thought and the German Colonial Imagination"

Jessica Gienow-Hecht delivers the keynote at Europäischer Akademie: “Berlin verbindet Europa”

X-Tutorial: Sites of Epistemological Conflicts

Research Colloquium: Lecture by Aaron Wiener: Media Upheaval in Germany and the United States

Workshop with Jill Lepore: "The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State"

Research Colloquium: Lecture by Kristen Iemma, "Empire of Records: Archives, Nation Building, and the U.S Imperial Expansion in the Early 20th Century”

Research Colloquium: Lecture by Brittany Meché, "Afropolitian Insecurities: Kairological Time and Urban Geographies”

Workshop: "Disconnect: When Music Excludes and Divides"

Location: John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien, Room 319 Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin

Research Colloquium: Lecture by William Hitchcock, "The American Response to the Rise of Fascism, 1922-1941"

Vom Staat zur Marke: Macht Markenbildung Länder stärker – oder verändert sie, still und leise, ihre politische Identität? Jessica Gienow-Hecht und Nicola Graef

Invitation: Prof. Dr. Jessica Gienow-Hecht Speaks at Hanns Seidel Stiftung

Panel Discussion | Remaking America: Europe in a US Grand Strategy of Restraint

Expo 2025

MA Thesis Presentation at the JFKI

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

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

BA Thesis 2025 Cohort

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

SCRIPTS and the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science Public Lecture

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

Research Colloquium: Archival Workshop with William McAllister

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

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

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”

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

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

MA Colloquium Thesis Proposals

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

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)”

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

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"

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

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"

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

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

Empowerment Workshop for FLINTA* Students

Winter 2024-25 Global History Colloquium

Empowerment Workshop for Neurodivergent Students

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

Research Colloquium: Lecture by Dr. Aidan Erasmus: "Chicago in the Bush: Sense, Technology, and the Anti-Colonial Intellectual"

Upcoming Lecture at the Korean Studies Department: Lecture by Jessica Gienow-Hecht: "Granny Goes to Abu Dhabi: How Authoritarian States Market Themselves Abroad (& Why Some Are So Good at It)"

Upcoming Workshop: MA Colloquium Thesis Proposals

Research Colloquium: Lecture by Elliot Leffler: "The International Circuitry of Politics, Protest, and Peformance"

Research Colloquium: Talk by Melvyn P. Leffler: "Dangerous Analogy: U.S.- Soviet Cold War and the Future of U.S.- Chinese Relations"

Invitation to Midterm Lecture: "Understanding the World through Alexander: Heroism, Space, and European Central Asias"

Research Colloquium: Text-Based discussion by Sebastian Jobs on "Partus Sequitur Ventrem: Law, Race, and Reproduction in Colonial Slavery"

Research Colloquium for Early Modern Culture and Religious History

"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"

Research Colloquium: Talk by Sönkel Kunkel: "Refugees Welcome? Writing the Contemporary History of Europe and North America"

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

Research Colloquium Literature/Culture/History: Talk by Dr. Martina J. Kohl: "Family Matters. Of Life in Two Worlds (A Novel)"

Australian gay activist Dennis Altman to give a lecture at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute on "Legacies of Gay Liberation Fifty Years Later"

Research Colloquium: Text-based discussion by Sönke Kunkel on "Latino Landscapes: Postwar Cities and the Transnational Origins of a New Urban America Author(s)"

Location: Room 201

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

See here for the full program.

Location: Erfurt, Augustinerkloster

Research Colloquium: Talk by Christopher Danielson: "Race and the Rise of Conservatism since the 1980s"

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

DASI Shoptalk: Project Shorts and Peer-to-Peer Support (German Association for American Studies)

Location: online via Zoom

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

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 - S13: Christopher Ohge (University of London) "Mastodon: 'Blood and Thunder' (2004) - Herman Melville and Computational Literary Studies"

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

Lecture Series -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"

Location: 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

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

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

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

Lecture Series -S10: Reading Week

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

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

Lecture: 1920er vs. 2020er in globaler Perspective

Lecture Series -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"

Location: ONLINE via Webex

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

Location: 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"

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

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

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

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

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

Location: 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"

Lecture Series -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’”

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

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

Location: 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