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Ringvorlesung

Capitalism and the North American City

October 25, 2017 - Introduction -

November 1, 2017 Markus Kienscherf (JFKI, Sociology / Freie Universität Berlin)

“‘Parking Tickets and Class Oppression’: Capitalism, Urban Governance, and the Police in America”

November 8, 2017Martin Lüthe (JFKI, Culture / Freie Universität Berlin)

“‘Poverty’s Paradise?’ Hip Hop, Capitalism, and the North American City”

November 15, 2017 - No Lecture -

November 22, 2017Sönke Kunkel (JFKI, History / Freie Universität Berlin)

“Earthquakes, Winds, and Fires: Natural Disasters and Capitalism in North American Cities”

November 29, 2017Stefanie Mueller (JFKI, Culture / Freie Universität Berlin)

“The Monster on Chestnut Street: Anti-Corporate Rhetoric and the Sec-ond Bank of the United States”

December 6, 2017Alexander Starre (JFKI, Culture / Freie Universität Berlin)

“Comprehending Class in the Industrial City: Jane Addams’s Chicago and W.E.B. Du Bois’s Philadelphia”

December 13, 2017Jonathan Fox (JFKI, Economics / Freie Universität Berlin)

“Progressive Era Public Health in the American City”

December 20, 2017- No Lecture -

January 10, 2018Lauren Kroiz (JFKI, Culture / Terra Visiting Professor)

“Leaving the Body: The Empty Spaces of American Modernism”

January 17, 2018Simon Strick (JFKI, Culture / Freie Universität Berlin)

“Feebleminded in the Melting Pot: Disability and/as Capitalist Critique in American Silent Comedy”

January 24, 2018Boris Vormann (Bard College Berlin)

“Varieties of Urbanization? The City in American Political Development”

January 31, 2018Talja Blokland (ISW / Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

“The Ghetto, State Surveillance and Control”

February 7, 2018James Dorson (JFKI, Literature / Freie Universität Berlin)

“‘These Bourgeois Cities Will Kill You’: Anti-Urbanism, Populism, and California Naturalism”

February 14, 2018- Conclusion -

Wednesdays, 6.00-8.00pmHabelschwerdter Allee 45

SilberlaubeLecture Hall 1b (Hörsaal 1b)

Information

John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien

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George Bellows: Cliff Dwellers. 1913, oil on canvas, L.A. County Museum of Art.