From Gangsta Rap to Health Reform

The online magazine campus.leben, the Tagesspiegel supplements, and the research magazine fundiert present news from the world of research, the international network of Freie Universität, and everything that goes on between the lecture hall and original research projects. They offer  information on current events at Freie Universität and portraits of the people who do research, teach, study, and work at Freie Universität.
We have put together a selection of articles about North America. Here you can learn more about a project that is studying Obama’s rhetoric and speaking style, or read about how Americans’ religious views affect the outcome of U.S. Presidential elections, the role of fashion and style in the development of identity in the U.S., or what gangsta rap hairstyles can tell us today. [Articles in German]

Overdue – by 37 years

Rare edition of a Bukowski work returned to the library almost four decades late

Focus on Germany and Europe

The Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies supports research on issues in the social sciences and the humanities regarding Germany and Europe.

Election party at the John F. Kennedy Institute

Minority votes add up to a majority for Obama – an interview with two American political scientists

With Obama in the lab

An interdisciplinary project studies the American president’s rhetoric and speaking style

A hairy matter

North American studies scholar Ursula Wunder examined the symbolic character of gangsta rap hairstyles

Faith in politics

Sociology professor Harald Wenzel explains how Americans’ religious views affect elections

Strengthening democracies

Doctoral candidate Santino Regilme studies changes in U.S. foreign policy since September 11, 2001

Practical, no-frills, self-made

American studies scholar Susann Park-Gessner studied the importance of fashion to the development of identity in the United States

Friendship between Germany and America

Partners for six decades: Freie Universität and the University of Minnesota celebrate a milestone

“Don’t forget justice!”

Feminist and political scientist Nancy Fraser is an Einstein Visiting Fellow at Freie Universität

Roundtable on the Occupy movement

From Arab Spring to American Fall? A talk at the John F. Kennedy Institute in November 2011

The health of American democracy

"Obamacare": how the American president defends his health reform

Kennedy’s signature

To commemorate the inauguration of the former U.S. president, in 1961: an exhibit in the Henry Ford Building, January 2011

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