Archive: Nadia Samadi

February 5, 2024

January 24, 2024

Together with Kimberly Vinall and Emily Hellmich from the Berkeley Language Center, German Department graduate student Kayla van Kooten discusses the importance of the languages and the humanities in the future of AI ahead of upcoming conference. The Berkeley Language Center Presents:   Language & AI: Generating Interdisciplinary Connections and Possibilities   February 28, 2024 1-5:15 PM Room 310, Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall Registration Required

January 24, 2024

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January 19, 2024

in the new “Film-Konzepte” volume on Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (edition text+kritik, 2024).

January 5, 2024

Jeroen Dewulf’s latest book, Afro-Atlantic Catholics: America’s First Black Christians (Notre Dame UP, 2022), was awarded the 2023 John Gilmary Shea Prize by the American Catholic Historical Association. The Shea Prize honors a book that has made the most “original and distinguished contribution” to the history of the Catholic Church.    For more information click here .

December 18, 2023

Priscilla Layne, author of White Rebels in Black: German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture (2018), is Professor of German and Director for the Center of European Studies at the University of North Carolina. The link to her talk is here.

December 18, 2023

“Establishing carefully how the volatile and spectral subject queers the screen, allowing for complex encounters and mobilities, this elegantly written essay nevertheless concludes that Treut’s 2009 film does not entirely escape a Western gaze at the Oriental or queer other. Finally, the article turns to a different kind of screen, the ubiquitous virtual meeting platform, as a metaphor that might open up different types of transnational and transcultural exchange acknowledging ‘unintentionality, speechlessness, and disconnection as they arise.”                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    …

November 30, 2023

in What Film Is Good For: On the Values of Spectatorship (University of California Press, 2023); and “Relativist Perspectivism: Caligari and the Crisis of Historicism,”   in How Film Histories Were Made: Materials, Methods, Discourses (Amsterdam University Press, 2023).  

November 30, 2023

The UC Berkeley Department of German and BAMPFA were pleased to host Werner Herzog’s Mosse Lecture. The author of more than a dozen books of prose, Herzog read from the long-awaited Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir (Penguin Random House, October 10, 2023) and engaged in conversation with Deniz Göktürk, Professor of German and Film at UC Berkeley.    Please click here to access the video  

October 24, 2023

This work addresses the issue of magical communication found in the Elder Futhark runic inscriptions. It examines the Kragehul Spear Shaft (DR 196), Björketorp runestone (DR 360), the Horn(s) of Gallehus (DR 12), Gummarp runestone (DR 358), Lindholm amulet (DR 261), Straum whetstone (KJ 50), Ribe skull fragment (DR EM85; 151B), the Noleby runestone (KJ 67), and the Eggja runestone (N KJ 101). It seeks magical communication which may putatively be encompassed by the law of magical semiosis.  By setting objective parameters for measuring this law of magical communication, it can be determined whether or not a particular inscription should…