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In her research project “Earth(ly) Matters. How Exhibition Spaces Capture Natural Environments,” Friederike Schäfer discusses how large-scale exhibitions have engaged in the discourse around the Anthropocene within the past decade. She examines how these exhibitions function as discursive spaces that conflate aesthetic experience and knowledge production, through the lens of the controversial debate on this proposition for a paradigm change in the history of Earth. This talk focuses on “Das Anthropozän am HKW“ (2013–2022, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin) and “Critical Zones. Horizonte einer neuen Erdpolitik“ at ZKM (2020–2022, Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe). https://www.temporal-communities.de/research/travelling-matters/projects/schaefer-earthly-matters/index.html     In collaboration…

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…

Sponsor(s): Institute of European Studies, Center for German and European Studies, German Historical Institute Washington | Pacific Office Berkeley    Did the human rights movement shun social justice and ignore the rise of neoliberalism in the 1970s–1980s? Using the example of human rights advocacy towards Central America in West Germany, this talk will explore conflicting visions of human rights in the 1980s, and explain why a market-conforming human rights movement emerged victorious by the end of the decade. Left-wing activists mobilized human rights rhetoric to support the Salvadoran guerrilla movement and the Sandinista state because they promised liberation and social justice.…

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…

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…

Sponsor(s): German Historical Institute Washington | Pacific Office Berkeley, Institute of European Studies, Institute of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies    This paper will look at the later careers of Africans who studied in the German Democratic Republic. While I intend to write about former educational migrants who took all sorts of routes after their university or vocational training, this particular talk focuses on those students who became professors in the humanities or social sciences. I will explore the impact that their studies in the GDR had – or did not have – on their academic careers. Some of the…

Sponsor(s): Institute of European Studies, Center for German and European Studies, German Historical Institute Washington | Pacific Office Berkeley, Center for African Studies      This presentation focuses on recent research on secrets and silences on memories of German colonialism in Tanzania, specifically, the area between Rufiji and the Ruvuma River in southern Tanzania. Dated 1880’s and taking over the long-established trade connection with the Asiatic world, establishing the German colonial rule of the region was not easy. The use of violence to bring the Tanzanians to their knees resulted in more than 50 resistances that the Germans were involved in…