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  • Germany as an Immigration Country, Feb 28

    February 28, 2017

    Immigration and migration issues are currently at the top of the political agenda as all parties prepare their strategies for the upcoming federal elections in which Chancellor Merkel seeks her fourth term. More narrowly, the consequences of the refugee influx are passionately debated – a topic on which public opinion ...read more

  • Moses and Aaron (Moses und Aaron) | Jean-Marie Straub | West Germany, France, Italy, 1974 Danièle Huillet West Germany, France, Italy, 1974 |, Feb 26

    February 26, 2017

    Introduction by Erik Ulman

    FEATURING
    Gunter Reich, Louis Devos, Roger Lucas,

    Acclaimed as one of the best opera films ever made, this adaptation of Schoenberg's 1930's opus represented a labor of love for Straub-Huillet, taking over fifteen years to fund. A camera, a landscape (the Roman Alba Fucense amphitheater), and direct sound recording ...read more

  • The World in and out of Sync: Looking back at the long 18th century, Feb 25

    February 25, 2017

    Taking his cue from present discussions on synchronization, non-synchronicity, and "desynchronized societies" (Rosa), Jordheim will look back at 18th century practices for dealing with multiple times, both in writing and through visual media, in order to explore how diagrams, concepts and narratives work to bring times and temporalities together and/or ...read more

  • Syncing… Subject, Media, Society Conference Day 2, Feb 25

    February 25, 2017

    “Not all people exist in the same Now,” claimed Ernst Bloch in his seminal 1932 book Erbschaft dieser Zeit (“Heritage of Our Times”). The rhythms of modernity had fractured society into isolated temporal worlds. While individuals occupied the same space, he argued, they lived ungleichzeitig – out of sync. Synchronism ...read more

  • Synaesthetics: Sound, Image, and Materialism, Feb 24

    February 24, 2017

    The “sonic turn” in the arts, humanities, and social sciences has prompted a reconsideration of the relationship between sound and image in media today. Semiotic issues of representation and signification have given way to materialist considerations of affect, force, and intensity. Along these materialist lines, the neurological condition of synaesthesia ...read more

  • Syncing… Subject, Media, Society Conference Day 1, Feb 24

    February 24, 2017

    “Not all people exist in the same Now,” claimed Ernst Bloch in his seminal 1932 book Erbschaft dieser Zeit (“Heritage of Our Times”). The rhythms of modernity had fractured society into isolated temporal worlds. While individuals occupied the same space, he argued, they lived ungleichzeitig – out of sync. Synchronism ...read more

  • Germany’s Strategic Hegemony: The History of the European Migration Regime, Feb 23

    February 23, 2017

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  • Film Screening: The Circle (Der Kreis) followed by Q&A and reception with director Stefan Haupt, Feb 6

    February 6, 2017

    About the film:
    Founded in the early 1940s, the network around the magazine "The Circle" ("Der Kreis") was the only gay organization to survive the Nazi regime. It blossomed during the post-war years into an internationally renowned underground club. Legendary masked balls at the Theater am Neumarkt in Zurich provided 800 ...read more

  • In the Last Days of the City (Akher ayam el madina) | Tamer El Said | Egypt/Germany, 2016, Jan 27

    January 27, 2017

    East Bay Premiere

    FEATURING
    Khalid Abdalla, Maryam Saleh, Hanan Yousef, Laila Samy,

    Shot in 2009 and released in 2016, In the Last Days of the City is a personal portrait of Cairo during the fall of the Mubarak regime. Structured as a film within a film, the protagonist is filmmaker Khalid (Khalid Abdalla), ...read more

  • Benjamin, Kafka, and Theology, Jan 24

    January 24, 2017

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