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Outrageous Comparisons in Modern History and Contemporary Politics
Time: - 6:30 PMDate: Location: 223 Moses Hall
Speaker: Willibald Steinmetz, Bielefeld University
Outrageous Comparisons in Modern History and Contemporary Politics Lecture | March 14 | 5-6:30 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall Speaker: Willibald Steinmetz, Bielefeld University Moderator: Akasemi Newsome, Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley Sponsors: Institute of European Studies, German Historica Insitute Washington (Pacific Office, Berkeley), Department of History Professor Willibald Steinmetz will give a work-in-progress report on a book he is currently writing about ‘outrageous comparisons’, i.e. comparisons that create public outrage or other strong emotional outbursts such as hatred, disgust, or long-lasting resentment. Polemical equations of someone with Hitler or the Nazis, or analogies to the Holocaust, are the most salient cases in point, but by…
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Unequal Re-education Schooling and Democracy in West Germany, 1945-1955
Time: - 12:00 PMDate: Location: 201 Moses Hall
Speaker: Phillip Wagner, University of Halle
Unequal Re-education Schooling and Democracy in West Germany, 1945-1955 Lecture | March 6 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall Speaker: Phillip Wagner, University of Halle Moderator: Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann, UC Berkeley Sponsors: Institute of European Studies, German Historical Institute Washington | Pacific Office Berkeley Zoom Link Available It is not only since the global rise of populism that the German public debates whether democracy needs to be more inclusive. Whereas some policy-makers and intellectuals argue for more programs to empower long marginalized communities, others argue that liberal democracies have to accept social injustice. Going back to the attempts of Allied and German policy-makers and educators…
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“Music of War and Victory: How Beethoven helped to save and rebuild the Habsburg Empire”
Time: - 12:30 PMDate: Location: 223 Moses Hall
Speaker: Prof. Philipp Ther (Univ. Vienna)
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Belgium in World War I: the shaping of twentieth century warfare
Time: - 12:00 PMDate: Location: Hybrid - 201 Moses Hall and Zoom- Note change in date!
Speaker: Nel de Mûelenaere, Free University of Brussels; Peter Paul Rubens Visiting Professor, UC Berkeley
Sponsors: Institute of European Studies, Flanders in the USA, BENELUX Studies Program, Dutch Studies Between 1914 and 1918, Belgium was the de facto testing ground for large-scale industrial armed conflict. From the brutal German invasion in August 1914 to the armistice in November 1918, the neutral, small state was the scene of some of the bloodiest innovations in technological warfare such as the introduction of aerial attacks on civilians, chemical weapons, rapid innovation in artillery systems and tanks. With the country split between active frontline and occupied territory, it saw four years of close civil-military interactions, propaganda wars and civilian coping strategies under occupation.…
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Mosse Lecture (in English): “The Utopian Prerogative.”
Time: - 7:00 PMDate: Location: David Brower Center
Speaker: Ilija Trojanow (Novelist)
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Lecture in German: “Populärer Realismus. Vom International Style gegenwärtigen Erzählens.” Ein Vortrag von Prof. Moritz Baßler
Time: Date: Location: 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Populärer Realismus. Vom International Style gegenwärtigen Erzählens In der Gegenwart hat sich international ein leicht lesbarer, gut übersetzbarer Erzählstil durchgesetzt, der Literatur nicht als Sprachkunst im engeren Sinne praktiziert (der Murakami-Kehlmann-Knausgård-Ferrante-Komplex). Der Vortrag fragt, welche Rezeptionsformen und Stilgemeinschaften diesen Populären Realismus tragen. Vor allem aber spürt er den Verfahren vermeintlicher und tatsächlicher Sinngebung nach, die dieser Literatur bleiben, von reiner Unterhaltung über alte und neue Spielarten des Midcult bis hin zu offenen Erzählformen des Kalkülromans. In Zusammenhang mit der publizistischen Schreibwerkstatt Kritisch kreativ bietet der Vortrag eine Vorschau auf Moritz Baßlers neues Buch Populärer Realismus: Vom International Style gegenwärtigen Erzählens, das am 15.…
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Workshop (in German) Journalistische Schreibwerkstatt “Kritische-Kreativ” on “Diversiifying German Studies”
Time: - 12:00 AMDate: - 08/26/2022 Location: 3401 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker: Organizers: Deniz Göktürk (UC Berkeley) and Michaela Predeick (Universität Köln); Guests: Moritz Baßler (Universität Münster) and Ilija Trojanow (Autor und Publizist)
Vorläufiger Wochenplan & Lektüreliste Journalistische Schreibwerkstatt „Kritisch Kreativ“ 22. bis 26. August 2022 University of California, Berkeley Department of German 3401 Dwinelle Hall Organisiert von Deniz Göktürk (UC Berkeley) und Michaela Predeick (Universität Köln) Gäste: Moritz Baßler (Universität Münster) und Ilija Trojanow (Autor und Publizist) Ziel des Workshops: Anhand von Texten der Teilnehmenden soll gemeinsam daran gearbeitet werden, einen Gedanken kurz und prägnant zu formulieren und in Form eines kurzen Essays (Zeitungsartikel, Blogpost etc.) darzulegen. Dabei geht es um publizistisches Schreiben für ein nicht nur akademisches Publikum. Kulturelle Hierarchien in der Medienpraxis, Debatten um ästhetische Qualität und aktuelle Tendenzen der…
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“‘At the Limit of the Obscene’: German Realism and the Disgrace of Matter”
Time: - 4:30 PMDate: Location: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/93239203888
Speaker: Erica Weitzman (Northwestern University)
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Lecture: “Close Reading Distant Viewing”
Time: - 3:30 PMDate: Location: Zoom link: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/94310825987
Speaker: Professor Fabian Offert (History and Theory of Digital Humanities Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies University of California, Santa Barbara)
Machine learning has not only changed how computers “read”, but also how they process the visual world. In this talk, I will investigate some of the implications of the machine learning revolution for the digital humanities. I will present an analysis of popular distant viewing practices that leverage machine learning to analyze large corpora of images and show how these practices fail by failing to take into account the radical differences between human and machine intelligence. Specifically, I will argue that it is exactly a “close reading” of machine learning that is required to uncover such epistemological limitations, and that…
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Lecture:”Fremde Heimkehr: Zu einem Literaturprogramm der Moderne”
Time: - 8:00 PMDate: Location: 282 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker: Dr. Eva Esslinger (LMU-Munich)