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GSNAS: 8th International Graduate Conference — May 7-9, 2015

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Interdisciplinary Forum at the Graduate School of North American Studies: Mathias Großklaus

On Wednesday, January 21, 2015, Mathias Großklaus will present his project „Targeted Killing and the Assassination Taboo between States: A Historical Perspective on Norm Dynamics in International Relations“. The workshop takes place from 14:15 to 15:45 in the seminar room of the Graduate School.

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Interdisciplinary Forum at the GSNAS on January 7, 2015 (Birte Wege)

On Wednesday, January 7, 2015, Birte Wege will present her project „Drawing on the Past: Graphic Narrative Documentary„. The workshop takes place from 14:15 to 15:45 in the seminar room of the Graduate School.

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Call for Papers: GSNAS International Conference 2015

Alliances Un/Common Causes and the Politics of Participation May 7–9, John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin Seventy years after the United States aligned themselves with the Soviet Union to move together against Nazi Germany, unusual alliances continue to shift power relations and fundamentally transform our societies. Born out of crises, such upheavals often extend […]

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Interdisciplinary Forum at the Graduate School of North American Studies

On Wednesday, December 17, 2014, Katharina Metz will present her project „Reading for Altruism. Doing Good in the Late Nineteenth Century“. The workshop takes place from 14:15 to 15:45 in the seminar room of the Graduate School.

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Lecture, Monday Dec. 8: The Afterlife of Critical Theory in the United States

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Lizabeth Cohen: Guest Lecture and Welcoming of 2014 GSNAS Cohort

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Brown bag Lecture with Clyde Wilcox

On Thursday, October 23 at 1pm, Georgetown University’s Clyde Wilcox, an esteemed political analyst and political science scholar, will join us for a brown bag lecture at the Kennedy Institute in room 319, to talk about the upcoming US mid-term elections.

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Interdisciplinary Forum at the Graduate School of North American Studies.

On Wednesday, July 16, 2014, Sonja Schillings will present her project „Grotesque Dignity: American Literature and the Renegotiation of Human Nature in the Postwar Period“. The workshop takes place from 3.00 to 4.30 pm (s.t.) in the seminar room of the Graduate School.

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Interdisciplinary Forum at the Graduate School of North American Studies

On Wednesday, July 2, 2014, Simon Schleusener will present his project „Poetics of the Market: Capitalism, Culture, and the Politics of Affect“. The workshop takes place from 3.00 to 4.30 pm (s.t.) in the seminar room of the Graduate School.

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Robert Dimand on „Mabel Timlin and the Transformation of Canadian Economics.“

In cooperation with the Embassy of Canada to Germany, the John F. Kennedy Institute presents a lecture by Prof. Robert Dimand of Brock University (Ontario) on „Mabel Timlin and the Transformation of Canadian Economics.“ Prof. Dimand is a visiting Professor of the Graduate School of North American Studies.   Mabel Timlin (1891-1976), author of Keynesian […]

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Interdisciplinary Forum at the Graduate School of North American Studies

On Wednesday, June 18, 2014, Thomas Dikant will present his project „On Consequences“. The workshop takes place from 3.00 to 4.30 pm (s.t.) in the seminar room of the Graduate School.

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