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  • How to Spot a Demokrat, Mar 30

    March 30, 2016

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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

  • Lotharingia as a Challenge to National Philologies, Mar 16

    March 16, 2016

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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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?

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  • Der Eigensinn der Tiere. Überlegungen zum Irritationspotential zweier Fabeln von Kleist, Mar 2

    March 2, 2016

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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

  • Focus in Distraction, Feb 27

    February 27, 2016

    Focus in Distraction
    24th Annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference
    University of California, Berkeley
    February 26-27, 2016

    In 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