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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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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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27th Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference: Affective Realisms
Time: - 4:00 PMDate: - 02/23/2019 Location: 370 Dwinelle Hall
Affective Realisms 27th Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference February 22-23 We often think of realism as a reactionary gesture, circumscribing all that is possible within the limits of the status quo – but recent developments in critical theory, philosophy, and literary studies have mobilized affect and reality in surprising new configurations. Scholars such as Eve Kosofsky-Sedgwick, Brian Massumi, Sarah Ahmed, Jane Bennett, and Mel Y. Chen have figured affect as something very “real” in itself, a non-subjective force that gives form to bodies at once material, social, and political. As contemporary theorists return to the question of realism after the…
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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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Semiotic Circle of California: Thirty-Fourth Meeting
Time: - 3:00 PMDate: Location: Seaborg Room Faculty Club
9:30 Scott Shell (UC Berkeley): Conventional Language, Poetry and Curse-Formulas in the Elder Futhark Period 9:50 W.C.Watt (UC Irvine): Sociosemiotics 101: Zombies 10:10 Jing Ge (UC Berkeley) and Susan C. Herring (Indiana Univ., Bloomington): Do emoji sequences have a basic word order? 10:30 Thaddeus Martin (Modesto Junior College): Translating Jaspers 10:50 Winfried Kudszus (UC Berkeley): Descriptive Beyond Reason: Freud’s Metaparanoiac Archaeology 1:10 Sarah Harris (UC Berkeley): Incompatibilities Under the Lupe: Translating Gender in German and English 1:30 Kate Carnell Watt (UC, Riverside): Sociosemiotics 102: Zombies 1:50 Mattie Scott (Oakland, CA): Dzogchen and the…
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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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DAAD Workshop "DaF in den USA": Language Teaching Methodology for Graduate Students and Junior Faculty
Time: - 6:30 PMDate: - 12/08/2018 every day Location: B-4 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker: Mark Kaiser, Kimberly Vinall
This workshop is intended to provide participants with a look at the current professional discourse regarding the teaching and learning of German, and insights into the most recent findings in the fields of Second Language Acquisition and Applied Linguistics. The special focus will be on teaching with texts for language learning, and workshops participants will gain the practical experience of developing and presenting a teaching unit as well as reflecting and discussing this. By invitation only, for application forms please contact euba@berkeley.edu
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Erinnerungsreisen zur Geschichte der Germanistik in Berkeley
Time: - 3:30 PMDate: Location: 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker: Karl S Guthke
The Department of German invites you to attend this year’s Bonwit-Heine Lecture. Lesung und Diskussion: Erinnerungsreisen zur Geschichte der Germanistik in Berkeley Freitag, 30. November, 14-15:30 Uhr 3335 Dwinelle Hall Karl S. Guthke (Kuno Francke Emeritus Research Professor of German Art and Culture at Harvard University) lehrte 1958-65 in Berkeley. Er liest aus seiner neuen Autobiographie Von Heidelberg nach Harvard (2018) das Kapitel über seine Zeit in Berkeley vor dem Free Speech Movement: Von Heidelberg nach Berkeley: Erinnerungen an die Goldenen Jahre der Migration nach Amerika. Professor emeritus Hinrich C. Seeba, der seit 1967 in Berkeley lebt und lehrt, gibt den Kommentar. …
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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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GUH Lecture: A BERLINER IN JAZZ-AGE MANHATTAN
Time: - 2:30 PMDate: Location: 170 Wurster Hall
Erich Mendelsohn vs. the Skyscraper Primitives: A Berliner in Jazz-Age Manhattan Greg Castillo, Associate Professor of Architecture Tuesday, November 20, 1-2:30pm | Wurster 170 Presented by the Global Urban Humanities Initiative Upon first sight of the Manhattan skyline in 1924, Erich Mendelsohn proclaimed it an object lesson in the tragedy of madness, deranged power, the intoxication of limitless victory. Amerika: Bilderbuch eines Architekten (America: An Architects Picture Book), his bestselling travelogue, portrayed a culturally primitive society degraded by jungle capitalism, but advanced in building technology. Maintaining that American architecture had unexpectedly little to offer a prophetic observer, Mendelsohn returned to…