[JFKI-News] American Grids: 2022 Graduate Workshop | 17 June 2022

["Bodmeier, Gabriele" <Office@gsnas.fu-berlin.de>]

Dear colleagues and friends,

Please join the students and faculty of the Graduate School of North American Studies for the 2022 Graduate Workshop, American Grids: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Housing, Energy and Infrastructure. This year’s event brings together researchers working with both quantitative and qualitative methodologies for a cross-disciplinary conversation on grids. From the gridiron, which has guided the systematic layout of streets in cities across North America; to the discriminatory practice of redlining, which segregated neighborhoods along those same grid lines; on to the energy grids currently being tested by climate events, the grid is a crucial form with which to examine questions of urban history, public policy and culture in the United States and Canada. The keynote address will be delivered by Dr. Gretchen Bakke, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam and author of The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Futures.

This workshop takes place in the rooms 319/340 and is open to all! If you would like to attend, please send a message with your name and affiliation (if appropriate) to workshop2022@gsnas.fu-berlin.de, by Friday 10 June, 2022.

An up-to-date schedule can be found here.

Thank you for observing the University's hygiene plan, and for staying home if you feel unwell.

 

 

 

 

 

         

 

The Graduate School of North American Studies at the Freie Universität – Berlin presents:

The 2022 Graduate Workshop

American Grids:

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Housing, Energy and Infrastructure

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In-person workshop, Lansstr. 7-9, 14195 Berlin, Friday, 17 June, 10:00-20:00

Keynote by Dr. Gretchen Bakke

"Refrigerator as Lynchpin: A Short History of the Fossil-Fueled Electricity System"

 

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Max McKenna and Simon Voß
Doctoral Candidates
Graduate School of North American Studies
John F. Kennedy Institute | Freie Universität Berlin