Departmental News
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Hitler’s Furies, Feb 25
February 25, 2016
Wendy Lower will present on her new book, Hitler's Furies, a finalist for the
National Book Award and the National Jewish Book Award. Drawing from
wartime documents, postwar trials, private letters, diaries and interviews, she will discuss outstanding cases of women who became direct witnesses, accomplices, and perpetrators of the Holocaust. In ...read more -
Loops of Mig:ration, Feb 23
February 23, 2016
The son of Andalusian Gastarbeiter, writer José F.A. Oliver was born in the village of Hausach in the Black Forest. His work has been awarded numerous prestigious literary prizes, and he has worked as writer in residence in Cairo, Dresden, and Istanbul.
This workshop (conducted in German, English, and Spanish) will ...read more
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Summer Abroad – Poland, Germany, and the Czech Republic, Feb 23
February 23, 2016
Join this info session to learn more about a NEW Berkeley Summer Abroad program in Poland, Germany, and the Czech Republic! The program focuses on both historical and contemporary minorities: the Jews of Europe and most specifically Poland; the Roma of Northern Bohemia; the Vietnamese in Prague, the Turkish in ...read more
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Aby Warburg’s Archaeology of Images and Photographic Remediation, Feb 22
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ATC Lecture — Hito Steyerl, “Proxies and Placeholders”, Feb 22
February 22, 2016
Hito Steyerl is one of the most critically acclaimed artists working in the field of video today. Holding a PhD in philosophy from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and teaching at the Universität der Künste Berlin, she is also a frequent contributer to E-Flux magazine, a lecturer, and an ...read more
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Hierarchy and Narrative Form: A Symposium with Caroline Levine and Samuel Frederick, Feb 19
February 19, 2016
Invited Speakers:
Prof. Caroline Levine - University of Wisconsin - Madison
Prof. Samuel Frederick - Penn State University ...read more -
Dialectics of a Constellation: Heine in Critical Theory, Feb 17
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Erich Mendelsohn vs the Skyscraper Primitives, Feb 17
February 17, 2016
Upon first sight of the Manhattan skyline in 1924, Erich Mendelsohn proclaimed it an object lesson in “the tragedy of madness, deranged power, the… intoxication of limitless victory.” Amerika: Bilderbuch eines Architekten (America: An Architect's Picture Book), his bestselling travelogue, portrayed a culturally primitive society degraded by jungle capitalism, but ...read more
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Yours Truly Forever . . ., Feb 16
February 16, 2016
Throughout the 20th century, for many Jews being Jewish meant first and foremost being together with other Jews. Despite its enormous significance for the understanding of the past, historians so far have dealt with friendship as if it was more or less a biographic accident. However, it is beyond controversy ...read more
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From Mendelssohn To Mendelssohn, thru Jun 24
January 26, 2016
Moritz D. Oppenheim (1800-1882), often celebrated as the first modern Jewish painter, created Lavater and Lessing Visit Moses Mendelssohn in 1856. The painting portrays an imagined mid-18th century meeting among scholars and intellectual associates Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781), and the Swiss theologian Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801), ...read more