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Lecture
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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)
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Lecture: “Der Zorn der Moralisten und die Theorie des Ressentiments: Gegenwartsdiagnose mit/gegen Nietzsche”
Time: - 7:00 PMDate: Location: 282 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker: Professor Albrecht Koschorke (Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor)
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Bonwit-Heine Lecture “ ‘Global Mission’: Nazi Foreign Cultural Policy and the Goethe Society in Weimar”
Time: - 7:00 PMDate: Location: 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Bio: W. Daniel Wilson was professor of German at Berkeley from 1983 to 2005 and departmental chair for four years; he is now professor of German at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has published widely in eighteenth-century literature, culture, and politics, particularly on political, gender and sexuality in Goethe. His most recent books are Goethe Männer Knaben: Ansichten zur Homosexualität (Insel, 2012), Goethes Erotica und die Weimarer Zensoren (Wehrhahn, 2015) and Der Faustische Pakt: Goethe und die Goethe-Gesellschaft im Dritten Reich (dtv, 2018). In 2016 he was awarded the Raimar Lüst Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. https://literaturkritik.de/wilson-der-faustische-pakt-goethe-als-mitlaeufer,25123.html
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Helke Sander's dffb Cinema, 1968 and West Germany's Feminist Movement
Time: - 3:00 PMDate: Location: 201 Moses Hall
Helke Sander was a key figure of the early dffb (Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin), where she studied between 1966 and 1969. Returning to her political organizing and her films of the era revises three crucial narratives: 1. it expands narratives about 1968 to include the establishment of feminism as part of it (The Tomatenwurf), which is often read as a 1970s phenomenon; 2. it expands narratives of cinemas of the late sixties to include feminist filmmaking; and 3. it shows how the seeds for her much better known filmmaking of the seventies were already visible thematically and formally in…
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The Future of European Research via the lenses of the Horizon EU research and innovation programme 2021-2027
Time: - 1:00 PMDate: Location: 201 Moses Hall
Jekaterina Novikova, EU fellow at the Institute of European Studies at UC Berkeley and Innovation Policy Coordinator at the European Commission, will speak about Horizon EU, a European research and innovation programme. This talk will highlight the process of the preparation of the programme based on the lessons learned from the previous programs, its building blocks, key novelties, and priorities.
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The Securitization of Migration and Racial Sorting in Fortress Europe
Time: - 12:00 AMDate: Location: 201 Moses Hall
These past two decades the European Union has been hit by two so-called “crises”: the financial or “Euro” crisis of 2008 and the 2015-2016 migration crisis. Whereas both crises have fed into euro-sceptic sentiments, it is safe to say that the response to the financial crisis at least seemed to be somewhat coordinated and uniform with EU member states coming together to reinforce the monetary union through powerful new instruments and sacrificed control over their banking systems to save the euro. The opposite has been true with regard to EU member states response to the so-called migration crisis. Driven by…
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Event Canceled: The Securitization of Migration and Racial Sorting in Fortress Europe
Time: - 12:00 AMDate: Location: 201 Moses Hall
These past two decades the European Union has been hit by two so-called “crises”: the financial or “Euro” crisis of 2008 and the 2015-2016 migration crisis. Whereas both crises have fed into euro-sceptic sentiments, it is safe to say that the response to the financial crisis at least seemed to be somewhat coordinated and uniform with EU member states coming together to reinforce the monetary union through powerful new instruments and sacrificed control over their banking systems to save the euro. The opposite has been true with regard to EU member states response to the so-called migration crisis. Driven by…
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Of Pathogens and Humans. A Cultural History of the Policies on Epidemics in the Nineteenth Century
Time: - 1:00 PMDate: Location: 201 Moses Hall
In the nineteenth century, epidemics reached, for the first time in history, all inhabited continents. Globally spreading pathogens were an unintended side effect of a growing flow of people, animals and goods across state borders, imperial spaces and continents. “Of pathogens and humans” is an ongoing research project that analyzes reactions to increasingly mobile diseases in the American and British Empires from the 1850s to the end of the First World War. It studies practices as well as ideas guiding the policies on epidemics, thereby exploring a hybrid area at the intersection of various political fields, such as colonial, foreign…
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Memory and Democracy: Civil and 'Uncivil' Activism for Remembrance in Germany and Beyond
Time: - 12:00 AMDate: Location: 170 Wurster Hall
Speaker: Jenny Wüstenberg
Across the country, civic activism is toppling statues in the name of historical justice. The debate over how to confront our racist, colonial, or genocidal past and the ways history challenges contemporary democratic governance has recently made headlines. Examining the relationship between memory and democracy, Jenny Wüstenbergs work focuses on how grassroots actors engage with institutions in order to shape public mnemonic space in Germany. In particular, she asks how to assess the role of civil society when it is not always an advocate for progressive modes of remembering violent histories. Jenny Wüstenberg is the DAAD Visiting Assistant…
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Helke Sander's dffb Cinema, 1968 and West Germany's Feminist Movement
Time: - 1:00 PMDate: Location: 201 Moses Hall
Helke Sander was a key figure of the early dffb, where she studied between 1966 and 1969. Returning her political organizing and her films of the era revises three crucial narratives: 1. it expands narratives about 1968 to include the establishment of feminism as part of it (The Tomatenwurf), which is often read as a 1970s phenomenon; 2. it expands narratives of cinemas of the late sixties to include feminist filmmaking; and 3. it shows how the seeds for her much better known filmmaking of the seventies were already visible thematically and formally in her little known earlier work. Christina…