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

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

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 Seung Hwan Ryu "North Korean Socialist Globalization Project in Tanzania, 1965 - 1989"

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"

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

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

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"

"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

Location: 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"

Location: 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