10/28/2004-10/30/2004
Goodbe Germany? Migration, Culture and the Nation State

Goodbye Germany? Migration, Culture, and the Nation State Conference at UC Berkeley

conference website

Unfortunately, we are not accepting papers for this conference.

Deniz Gokturk
Department of German
5319 Dwinelle Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-3243

Phone: 510-643-2004

Email: dgokturk@socrates.berkeley.edu

11/8/2003
Muticultural Germany Workshop

Workshop on Multicultural Germany with Werner Schiffauer

Identity Talk in Religion and Pop Culture

"The third generation particularly has no more interest in thinking about the stingy concepts of integration and assimilation, in busying themselves with luxury definitions like culture, identity, and homeland, because people have gotten beyond the Turkish folklorists and the Turk Information Service." (Feridun Zaimoglu, interviewed in "Code TR" above)

11/6/2003
Werner Schiffauer

Lecture by Werner Schiffauer
(European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder)
organized by Goethe-Institut and IES

Through 6/29/2003
Video exhibition: Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba's "Memorial Project Vietnam"

The "Memorial Project Vietnam" films of Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba explore Vietnamese history and identity through the common theme of water, which is central to both Vietnamese folklore and culture. His latest work, "Happy New Year," making its world premiere at the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, investigates the impact of the Tet offensive in 1968, the subsequent migration of the "boat people," and their gradual return to Vietnam. Also showing is Nguyen-Hatsushiba's 2001 film, "Towards the Complex - For the Courageous, the Curious, and the Cowards," the first in the Memorial Project Vietnam series. A response to legislation outlawing the use of bicycle taxis (cyclos), this film recalls a more traditional way of life in Vietnam. Both of Nguyen-Hatsushiba's films are rich in color, with choreographed movement set to a hypnotic soundtrack.

Berkeley Art Museum 2626 Bancroft Way

2/28/2003
Rethinking Diversity Workshop

Our project is an attempt to document German debates about Multiculturalism, how they have changed shape and what is still under construction. The German case is especially exciting, which may be unexpected for many not familiar with Germany. There are also related debates in Germany, but we also want to engage in a dialogue with diversity discussion in other countries within the framework of nation-states.
For Workshop Notes click here