“An Affect of Non-Belonging: Precarious Kinship and Conflicting Memories in Cho Sung-hyung’s Korean-German Documentary Trilogy”

“Die vierfache Wurzel des romantischen Symbols. Versuch einer begriffsgeschichtlichen Genealogie”

  For graduate students presenting their research (their proposed dissertation, conference papers, or current research project) For visitors (profs., postdocs, doctoral students) presenting their research For guests speakers   In the Doctoral Colloquium of the Department of German at UC Berkeley, visitors, guest speakers, faculty, and doctoral students present the progress of their proposed dissertations, conference papers, or current research projects. Regular colloquia help to ensure that a collegial exchange is possible and that ideas, critical suggestions, and outstanding matters can be discussed. This is an opportunity for faculty, visitors, and doctoral students from various departments to share their ideas,…

For graduate students presenting their research (their proposed dissertation, conference papers, or current research project) For visitors (profs., postdocs, doctoral students) presenting their research For guests speakers   In the Doctoral Colloquium of the Department of German at UC Berkeley, visitors, guest speakers, faculty, and doctoral students present the progress of their proposed dissertations, conference papers, or current research projects. Regular colloquia help to ensure that a collegial exchange is possible and that ideas, critical suggestions, and outstanding matters can be discussed. This is an opportunity for faculty, visitors, and doctoral students from various departments to share their ideas, listen…

Our next Noon Colloquium is this Friday!   For graduate students presenting their research (their proposed dissertation, conference papers, or current research project) For visitors (profs., postdocs, doctoral students) presenting their research For guests speakers   In the Doctoral Colloquium of the Department of German at UC Berkeley, visitors, guest speakers, faculty, and doctoral students present the progress of their proposed dissertation, conference papers, or current research projects. Regular colloquia help to ensure that a collegial exchange is possible and that ideas, critical suggestions, and outstanding matters can be discussed. This is an opportunity for faculty, visitors, and doctoral students…

“Erich Mendelsohn vs. the Skyscraper Primitives: A Berliner in Jazz-Age Manhattan” Greg Castillo, Associate Professor of Architecture Tuesday, November 20, 1-2:30pm | Wurster 170 Presented by the Global Urban Humanities Initiative 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 advanced in building technology. Maintaining that American architecture had “unexpectedly little to offer a prophetic observer,” Mendelsohn returned to…

“Erich Mendelsohn vs. the Skyscraper Primitives: A Berliner in Jazz-Age Manhattan” Greg Castillo, Associate Professor of Architecture Tuesday, November 20, 1-2:30pm | Wurster 172 (please note the updated room and time) Presented by the Global Urban Humanities Initiative 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 advanced in building technology. Maintaining that American architecture had “unexpectedly little to…

“Metropolis in Ruins. Berlin’s Interval of Time, 1943-1947” Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann Associate Professor of History Tuesday, October 30, 12-1:30pm Wurster 170 Part of the Global Urban Humanities Colloquium The City and Its People, Rhetoric 198-3 / ARCH 198-2, Rhetoric 244A / ARCH 298-2 With the modern metropolis emerges also the anticipation of urban ruination. However, what if the unimaginable (yet incessantly imagined) occurs and a metropolis falls apart? What happens after the deportations of Jews, delusions of imperial domination, and ravages of urban warfare create, in a shockingly short time, a deserted ruin landscape where there was once a world city?…