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“The Archives of Critical Theory”
Time: - 1:00 PMDate: - 04/06/2024 Location: Zoom
Speaker: Isabelle Aubert (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Messages in a Bottle: Recent Studies on the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory An Online Book Talk Series 100 years ago, on June 22, 1924, the legendary Institute for Social Research was opened in Frankfurt, Germany. Since then, names such as Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer, Leo Löwenthal and Herbert Marcuse have been associated with this institute. To mark this centenary, the book launch series looks at the latest trends and approaches in research on the history, culture and philosophy of the so-called “Frankfurt School” of Critical Theory. Three authors present their new books and discuss them…
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“In the Twilight: Studies on the Pre- and Early History of Critical Theory”
Time: - 1:00 PMDate: Location: Zoom
Speaker: Christian Voller (Leuphana University, Lüneburg)
Messages in a Bottle: Recent Studies on the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory An Online Book Talk Series 100 years ago, on June 22, 1924, the legendary Institute for Social Research was opened in Frankfurt, Germany. Since then, names such as Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer, Leo Löwenthal and Herbert Marcuse have been associated with this institute. To mark this centenary, the book launch series looks at the latest trends and approaches in research on the history, culture and philosophy of the so-called “Frankfurt School” of Critical Theory. Three authors present their new books and discuss them…
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Fluid Dreamscapes: Lin Hierse in Conversation with Elizabeth Sun and Deniz Göktürk
Time: - 1:30 PMDate: Location: ZOOM Meeting: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/91753283777?pwd=OWowT2k4clNWdEhMYkEvbHBQSHNnUT09
Speaker: Lin Hierse will be in dialogue with Elizabeth Sun and Deniz Göktürk
Lin Hierse holds an M.A. in Asian Studies and Urban Geography from the Humboldt University of Berlin. She currently works as a journalist and author in Germany, and has been an editor at die tageszeitung (taz) since 2019, where she wrote the column poetical correctness from 2020 to 2023. Her first novel, Wovon wir träumen [What we dream about], was published by Piper in 2022. In elegant and moving narration, the auto-fictional novel offers glimpses and sound bites from the protagonist’s life in Shanghai and Berlin, weaving in fragments from her mother and grandmother’s lives during China’s Cultural Revolution in the 1960s. Transitions between places in…
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Framing Heimat in Translation: Peyman Azhari in Conversation with Kristin Dickinson
Time: - 1:30 PMDate: Location: Zoom registration link: https://berkeley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYrfuGuqzIrHNKDaqO27KnXgnEm99CwfXS6
Speaker: Peyman Azhari, Visual Artist and Photojournalist
Moderator: Kristin Dickinson, Associate Professor of German Studies, University of Michigan Sponsors: Institute of European Studies, Department of German, German Historical Institute Washington | Pacific Office Berkeley Peyman Azhari is an Iranian-German visual artist specializing in photojournalism. While often place-based, his work explores questions of home and belonging in the aftermath of migration, revealing the interlaced nature of the local and transnational. His book length projects include Heimat 132 (2015)—which offers a glimpse into the radical diversity of northern Dortmund through both photographs and interviews—and 1440 Minutes New York City (2011). With a specialization in reportage photography, Azhari’s additional projects have focused on everyday people in transit on…
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Dutch Studies book presentation: Jaap Robben
Time: - 5:30 PMDate: Location: 5303 Dwinelle Hall
Dutch author, poet and playwright Jaap Robben will present his latest novel in English translation, You Have Me To Love