Graduate School of North American Studies / Freie Universität Berlin

Application platform online again!
We are happy to announce our one-year as well as for next year's wintersemester. We invite applications until Jan 31 next year in , , , , , and , as long as the topic presented relates to or the .
All application infos on our website:
https://www.jfki.fu-berlin.de/en/graduateschool/application/application_procedure
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Now Dr. Lee Flamand, alumnus of the GSNAS, published his dissertation! With American Mass Incarceration and Post-Network Quality Television: Captivating Aspirations" he examines American television's role in both critiquing and legitimizing the institutional reproduction of the prison. Congratulations Lee!

American Mass Incarceration and Post-Network Quality Television Far more than a building of brick and mortar, the prison relies upon gruesome stories circulated as commercial media to legitimize its institutional reproduction. Perhaps no medium has done more in recent years to both produce and intervene in such stories than television. This unapologetically inte...

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Program's ready! Only a bit more than a week until this year's Graduate Workshop, American Grids. Join us and the 2021 cohort by signing up with an e-mail to [email protected] until Friday, June 10. Everyone is welcome!

https://www.jfki.fu-berlin.de/en/graduateschool/events/conference/2022/index.html

What still was a distant dream for our last new cohort, will be reality this year! We are having an in-person workshop again for our annual conference on *June 17*. Open to all, you can find the e-mail-adress to sign up as well as more information on the keynote speaker and more here: https://www.jfki.fu-berlin.de/en/graduateschool/events/conference/2022/index.htm
The workshop is open to everyone - please feel free to share this post and come by! We are all very excited.

Our PhD students Sonja and Fabian co-authored the literature journal AmLit for this issue

Vol 2 No 1 (2022): Fictions of Distance | AmLit - American Literatures

"Like Foucault, we think that confession is indeed integral to secular modernity, but unlike Foucault, we do not think that this is an altogether bad thing: Rather than a dated ritual of self-policing, we take confession to be a secular means of moral self-inquiry and an aesthetic of self-fashioning focused on character, defined by a set of moral values and principles—ethos."

The graduate research group DISCLOSURE, founded by our PhD student Sonja Pyykkö, is organizing its first symposium this summer and invites contributions from across disciplines.
More on their website https://disclosureconference.wordpress.com/

Please feel free to circulate the CfP!

The departments of economics and sociology are hosting their first workshop this year - in person (!). The number of particpants is therefore limited; yet, there are still spots available!

Workshop “The Socioeconomics of Housing and Finance – Evidence from the US and Europe On January 21, 2022 the Departments of Sociology and Economics will hold a workshop on “The Socioeconomics of Housing and Finance – Evidence from the US and Europe”. HERE you can find the workshop program. Due to the pandemic, the number of participants is limited. If you are interested in par...

Application platform online again!

We are happy to announce our three-year as well as for next year's wintersemester. We again invite applications until Nov 30 this year in , , , , , and , as long as the topic presented relates to or the .

All application infos on our website:
https://www.jfki.fu-berlin.de/en/graduateschool/application/application_procedure/index.html

Please feel free to share our call for applications with anyone interested in !

Today the JFKI's chair of economics, Dr. Max Steinhardt, presented at the seminar of the Una Europa Global Governance Research Group on a topic related to the voting behavior of politicans on migratory issues. For anyone interested in Global Governance Research, here's the schedule for tomorrow's presentations.

Una Europa Seminar: Building Research Synergies in Global Governance Date:  Thursday, September 2, 2021 (All day) to Friday, September 3, 2021 (All day) Location: This will be an Online Event. See link below. All times are CET. The Una Europa Global Governance Research Group, funded under the 2019 call of Una Europa Seed Funding, is organizing another seminar. The ...

Dedicated to the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp Dachau, doctoral student Kira Alvarez published today in the taz on transgenerational trauma and taking history seriously.

Jahrestag der Befreiung des KZ Dachau: Gedenken schützt Demokratie Wie soll man umgehen mit der Erinnerung an die NS-Barbarei? Die Historikerin Kira G. Alvarez, Enkelin eines KZ-Häftlings, zur Aufgabe der Gedenkarbeit.