We would like to invite you to attend the 32nd Annual Berkeley Graduate student organized Interdisciplinary German Studies conference “Beauty & Artifice,” which will take place Friday, March 8th and Saturday, March 9th.   The keynote with author and artist Moshtari Hilal on March 7th 11-12:30 PM is organized in collaboration with the Archives of Migration series.                 “Beauty & Artifice” 32nd Annual Berkeley Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference March 7-9, 2024 (Online) Register Here Zoom Meeting ID 975 2029 4528   Keynote: March 7, 2024 11:00-12:30 PST / 20:00-21:30 MEZ “Ugliness as Political Construct” w/ Moshtari Hilal Moderated…

Moderator: Lilla Balint, UC Berkeley Moderator: Be Schierenberg, UC Berkeley   Moshtari Hilal is a visual artist, writer and curator based in Hamburg and Berlin. Hilal studied Islamic Studies and Political Science with a focus on Gender and Decolonial Theory in Hamburg, Berlin and London. She is co-founder of the collective AVAH (Afghan Visual Arts and History) and the research project CCC (Curating Through Conflict with Care) as part of ngbk in Berlin. Together with political geographer Sinthujan Varatharajah, Hilal published September 2022 at Wirklichkeit Books the conversation book “English in Berlin – Exclusions in a Cosmopolitan Society”. Varatharajah and Hilal were awarded the supporting price for critique by the…

This is part of the Berkeley Book Chat series, organized by the Townsend Center. Please see below for more information and registration: Martin Jay Immanent Critiques The Frankfurt School under Pressure Weds Feb 7 | 12-1 pm 220 Stephens Info & Registration Honoring the Frankfurt School’s practice of immanent critique, Martin Jay (History) puts critical pressure on a number of its own ideas by probing their contradictory impulses. He is joined by Karen Feldman (German).

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…