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31st Annual Berkeley Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference: “Fictions of Reproduction”
Time: - 5:00 PMDate: - 02/25/2023 Location: Zoom- (https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/99842121224?pwd=M2JOUUxhVHRiaEM0UzJRSm8zV0paUT09)
Organizers: Ambika Athreya, Elise Volkmann, Verena Wolf Berkeley 2023 German Studies Conference: Fictions of Reproduction (Online) Join the conference meeting room on Zoom by clicking here or scanning the QR Code. (Meeting ID: 998 4212 1224; Passcode: 333132) Day 1: Friday, February 24, 2023 9:00-9:15 PST / 18:00-18:15 MEZ Introductory Remarks by Ambika Athreya (UC Berkeley) 9:15-10:40 PST / 18:15-19:40 MEZ Panel 1 – Taming, Staging and Rhapsodizing the Maternal Body Moderator: Verena Wolf (UC Berkeley) Commentator: Dr. Patrick Hohlweck (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/UC Berkeley) Marcella Fassio (Freie Universität Berlin) – Zwischen Verstummen und Anklagen: Repräsentationen…
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Semiotic Circle of California: Thirty-Fourth Meeting
Time: - 3:00 PMDate: Location: Seaborg Room Faculty Club
9:30 Scott Shell (UC Berkeley): Conventional Language, Poetry and Curse-Formulas in the Elder Futhark Period 9:50 W.C.Watt (UC Irvine): Sociosemiotics 101: Zombies 10:10 Jing Ge (UC Berkeley) and Susan C. Herring (Indiana Univ., Bloomington): Do emoji sequences have a basic word order? 10:30 Thaddeus Martin (Modesto Junior College): Translating Jaspers 10:50 Winfried Kudszus (UC Berkeley): Descriptive Beyond Reason: Freud’s Metaparanoiac Archaeology 1:10 Sarah Harris (UC Berkeley): Incompatibilities Under the Lupe: Translating Gender in German and English 1:30 Kate Carnell Watt (UC, Riverside): Sociosemiotics 102: Zombies 1:50 Mattie Scott (Oakland, CA): Dzogchen and the…
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Authoritarianism and Democracy: Austria, Germany and Europe, 1918-2018
Time: - 12:00 PMDate: Location: Social Science Matrix (8th floor) Barrows Hall
Sociologist Ralf Dahrendorf wrote in 1997 that “a century of authoritarianism is by no means the least likely prognosis for the 21st century”. Due to economic globalization and digitalization, changes in the realms of life and work are vast and far-reaching, with profound consequences for democracy. This development, however, is not new—a look at globalization from the end of World War I to post-1945 Europe reveals comparable crises. Bridging literary, historical, economic and technological perspectives, this two-day conference examines the successes, and failures, of democracies, and analyzes a possible return of anti-democratic trends, both in present-day Europe and internationally. 10am-12pm…
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Authoritarianism and Democracy: Austria, Germany and Europe, 1918-2018
Time: - 5:30 PMDate: Location: Golub Home Room International House
Sociologist Ralf Dahrendorf wrote in 1997 that “a century of authoritarianism is by no means the least likely prognosis for the 21st century”. Due to economic globalization and digitalization, changes in the realms of life and work are vast and far-reaching, with profound consequences for democracy. This development, however, is not new—a look at globalization from the end of World War I to post-1945 Europe reveals comparable crises. Bridging literary, historical, economic and technological perspectives, this two-day conference examines the successes, and failures, of democracies, and analyzes a possible return of anti-democratic trends, both in present-day Europe and internationally. Morning…
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Authoritarianism and Democracy: Austria, Germany and Europe, 1918-2018
Time: - 5:30 PMDate: Location: Golub Home Room International House
Sociologist Ralf Dahrendorf wrote in 1997 that “a century of authoritarianism is by no means the least likely prognosis for the 21st century”. Due to economic globalization and digitalization, changes in the realms of life and work are vast and far-reaching, with profound consequences for democracy. This development, however, is not new—a look at globalization from the end of World War I to post-1945 Europe reveals comparable crises. Bridging literary, historical, economic and technological perspectives, this two-day conference examines the successes, and failures, of democracies, and analyzes a possible return of anti-democratic trends, both in present-day Europe and internationally. 9:00…