News & Events
Events
The Department of German hosts and co-sponsors a range of events throughout the year, including conferences, lecture series, and weekly/biweekly colloquia and social activities.
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Workshop “Archives of Nature”
Time: - 6:00 PMDate: Location: 370 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker: TBA
TBA
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Workshop “Archives of Nature”
Time: - 4:00 PMDate: Location: 370 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker: TBA
TBA
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COMMENCEMENT-SPRING 2024
Time: - 11:00 AMDate: Location: Zellerbach Playhouse
COMMENCEMENT Spring 2024 Commencement for German Bachelor’s (majors), Master’s, and Ph.D. students: TUESDAY MAY 14, 2024 9-11AM ZELLERBACH PLAYHOUSE Master of Ceremonies: TBD Featured Speaker: TBD Reception immediately following the ceremony, Ishi Court. PARTICIPATING DEPARTMENTS Celtic Studies, Comparative Literature, Dutch Studies, French, German, Italian Studies, Scandinavian, Slavic Languages & Literatures, and Spanish & Portuguese
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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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Lecture: Francesco Casetti- “Media, Fears, Protection”
Time: - 5:00 PMDate: Location: 142 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker: Francesco Casetti (Sterling Professor of Humanities and Film and Media Studies at Yale University)
Many contemporary media function as filters that protect us against the dangers from the exterior, rather than as tools that help appropriate the world. Consequently, mediation becomes a process in which contact with the world relies on some kind of distancing, and in which grasping reality also means recognizing the threats it may pose – threats that are, more often than not, the result of human action on the world. This lecture explores the widespread presence of protective media in our contemporary media landscape, with a particular focus on the ways they reshape our environment and elicit new forms of governmentality. …
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Workshop: Francesco Casetti- “Rhizomatic Media Archaeology”
Time: - 12:00 PMDate: Location: 7415 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker: Francesco Casetti (Sterling Professor of Humanities and Film and Media Studies at Yale University)
Open to graduate students and faculty. Space is limited. Please RSVP to Linus Mao (l_mao@berkeley.edu) by noon on Wednesday, April 10 to receive two texts, which will serve as a basis for interactive discussion. Lunch will be provided. Francesco Casetti is Sterling Professor of Humanities and Film and Media Studies at Yale University. He is the author of Inside the Gaze: The Fiction Film and Its Spectator (1999), Theories of Cinema, 1945–1995 (1999), Eye of the Century: Film, Experience, Modernity (2008), The Lumière Galaxy: Seven Key Words for the Cinema to Come (2015), and Screening Fears: On Protective Media (2023). Sponsored by the Department of Film & Media,…
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Felix A. Jiménez Botta | The Central American insurgencies and the Human Rights Culture War in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1979 –1990
Time: - 6:30 PMDate: Location: 201 Philosophy Hall
Speaker: Felix A. Jiménez Botta, Associate Professor of History, Miyazaki International College
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.…
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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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32nd Annual Berkeley Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference ‘Beauty and Artifice’
Time: - 2:00 PMDate: Location: Zoom
Speaker: Moshtari Hilal
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…
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Ugliness as Political Construct
Time: - 12:30 PMDate: Location: Zoom
Speaker: Moshtari Hilal
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…