John F. Kennedy Institute, FU Berlin

31/10/2022

16/08/2022

SCRIPTS is seeking a postdoctoral researcher (m/f/d) in the project "Racism and Multilaterialim"
Please find the job ad here:

SCRIPTS is seeking a postdoctoral researcher (m/f/d) with full-time employment limited to 3 years, remuneration group E13 (TV-L FU), reference code: Postdoc_SCRIPTS_Orders. DEADLINE: 29 Aug 2022

21/07/2022

Tomorrow and on Saturday at the JFKI:

Join the graduate symposium "Disclosure: New Perspectives on the Confessing Animal,” which will take place this Friday (10-18:00), and Saturday (11-16:00) in room 201/JFKI and online via livestream. The link for joining via the livestream will be posted before the event begins on Friday morning to the website https://disclosureconference.wordpress.com.

17/06/2022

The graduate school is hosting their annual conference/workshop today!

08/06/2022

Registration for the 2022 Graduate Workshop closes this week! Join us for a discussion on housing, energy, and infrastructure - registration is open to everyone.

12/05/2022

The graduate school is hosting their annual conference in-person again!

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.

20/01/2022

Organized by students from various disciplines, the graduate research group DISCLOSURE, based at the JFKI, invites contributions for their summer symposium.

https://disclosureconference.wordpress.com/

"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!

26/05/2021

To all our MA students at home and around the world: Freie Universität Berlin is evaluating your experiences with online teaching and the MA North American Studies. A few nice prices have been put up for your honest feedback. Please help us improve our program by participating in the survey.

https://www.fu-berlin.de/en/sites/masterbefragung/index.html

29/04/2021

Wie soll man umgehen mit der Erinnerung an die NS-Barbarei? Die Historikerin Kira G. Alvarez, Enkelin eines KZ-Häftlings, zur Aufgabe der Gedenkarbeit.

15/04/2021

Freie Universität Berlin will present its Master programs Friday (April 23) next week on its annual Master's fair. Also the JFKI will take part and present is MA program from 2-4 pm on WebEx. Swing by if you have any questions and meet us personally!

Here you will have the opportunity to get to know our range of master program courses, learn about the daily life within a master program, and directly get in touch with course representatives. Numerous departments will be offering information and advice at virtual information stands.

02/03/2021

𝐔𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐦 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏

Our plans at the JFKI to continue remote instruction in the summer term have now been confirmed by the Berlin Senate, who have issued new guidelines (see PDF in German; English summary at the end of this post).

𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘉𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘶𝘱𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮.

Based on student input, the following additional recommendations are being made to JFK instructors and administrative staff:
- Instructors should preferably offer a limited number of additional and voluntary on-campus sessions (2-3) to allow students – especially in their first and second semester – to meet peers for the first time since commencing their studies
- The Institute should offer workspaces to students (preferably in single offices or seminar rooms with a limited occupancy of max. 4-6 persons)

We will provide more information in the coming weeks on the technicalities of the above, including how office space can be reserved and the COVID-19 contact-tracing procedures.

Enjoy the semester break, and see you in the new term!


* Basic Guidelines for Teaching and Studying in the Summer Term 2021 at Berlin Universities *
1. The lecture period of the summer term will begin as planned between April 1st, 2021 (at the Universities for Applied Sciences, or “Fachhochschulen”) and April 12th, 2021 (at Universities and Art Universities) and on the corresponding dates for private Universities.
2. The summer term will begin in a digital format. To the extent permitted by the pandemic, opportunities for in-person teaching and study may become available during the term. Universities will inform students in good time which courses and examinations may be switched to an in-person format, if the levels of infection permit such a possibility.
3. Priority shall be given to courses that cannot be taught digitally. Universities will set their own priorities in the event of a possible switch to in-person courses, taking into account the impact of the pandemic on students’ academic progress, special requirements of certain programs, and local conditions.
4. The academic libraries will continue to support teaching and examination activities through online services, scanning services, and lending operations. They will expand their services by, for example, making workstations available to students, as soon as and to the extent that the infection situation permits.
5. The dining halls (Mensa) of the Studierendenwerk Berlin will resume their Click&Collect services on the basis of demand.