Departmental News
Events
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How to Spot a Demokrat, Mar 30
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Exhibiting the Art of Migration, Mar 17
March 17, 2016
Germany might soon see a national museum of migration – comparable to the Ellis Island and the Tenement Museums in New York and the Musée national de l'histoire de l'immigration in Paris. An evaluation in preparation of a Migrationsmuseum is currently in progress and will have been completed at the ...read more
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Lotharingia as a Challenge to National Philologies, Mar 16
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Workshop with Professor Regina Bendix, Mar 11
March 11, 2016
Four members of the UC Berkeley community: Héctor Beltrán, Robin Ellis, Ruth Goldstein, and Annika Orich, will present papers in a form that will also center on notions of circulation; Prof. Bendix will then provide a commentary, followed by general discussion. ...read more
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Actors – Approaches – Affordances, Mar 10
March 10, 2016
What is European in European Ethnology? What remained nationally and/or linguistically coded knowledge production in post-war Europe? Using the case of German speaking scholarship, the presentation follows clusters of actors who sought and seek to substantiate what questions form a worthy core for European Ethnology. What were the affordances at ...read more
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German Angst. Fear and Democracy in Postwar Germany, Mar 8
March 8, 2016
The history of postwar West Germany is often told as a success story that traces the gradual evolution of the Federal Republic from the ashes of the Third Reich to a prosperous and pluralist liberal democracy. Yet at the same time, the same history is characterized by recurring cycles of ...read more
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The Crisis of ‘Made in Germany’ and How Germany Can Recover, Mar 7
March 7, 2016
Whether Volkswagen or Deutsche Bank, Berlin's failure to build an airport , or the collapse of Hamburg's bid for the Olympics 2024, "Made in Germany" is no longer a guarantee for outstanding engineering and successful planning. Why did it happen and is there a way back to the top?
Christoph von ...read more
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Der Eigensinn der Tiere. Überlegungen zum Irritationspotential zweier Fabeln von Kleist, Mar 2
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Germany and its 1 Million Refugees, Mar 2
March 2, 2016
Taking a close look at the ways in which individuals, towns, and cities in Germany have been dealing with the unprecedented influx of refugees in the wake of the war in Syria-- from housing to language instruction to dealing with right-wing hostilities and growing uncertainty especially in the wake of ...read more
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Focus in Distraction, Feb 27
February 27, 2016
Focus in Distraction
24th Annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference
University of California, Berkeley
February 26-27, 2016In an era that valorizes attention, coherence, and focus, it is more relevant than ever to consider how distracted modes of perception challenge our established notions of self. In this conference, we question contemporary popular narratives of ...read more