News

On Monday, March 16, 2026, faculty member Niklaus Largier was featured in the 113th Annual Martin Meyerson Berkeley Faculty Research Lectures, organized by the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate at the University of California. His lecture was titled “Mysticism and Modernity.”

A French translation of Professor Jeroen Dewulf's award-winning book Afro-Atlantic Catholics is about to be released by Brepols, with the title La naissance du catholicisme noir dans le monde atlantique.

https://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9782503624549-1

Professor Nicholas Baer has teamed with Jochen Hung and Britta Schilling to edit a new special issue of German Life and Letters on “Provincialising Weimar Culture.” Inspired by Dipesh Chakrabarty, the issue explores Weimar Germany from and for the margins, foregrounding subaltern histories and cultural life beyond the metropolis.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680483/2026/79/1

Professor Hannes Bajohr published a co-edited volume of essays with the German poet Ann Cotten titled Schreiben nach KI (Writing after AI). The book brings together reflections by German-language literary authors on how AI technologies—particularly large language models—have reshaped their writing practices, their understanding of authorship, and the material conditions of their work.

Graduate student Anna Lynn Dolman has published a co-authored article with Prof. Dr. Claudia Liebrand (University of Cologne) in Weihnachtsfilme lesen III: Ein Wundergenre (transcript Verlag). The edited volume examines Christmas cinema from the perspective of film and media studies, focusing on how genre conventions and media formats shape cultural narratives of the holiday.

Professor Karen Feldman gave a presentation entitled "Moral Interpretations of the Book of Job" at the American Academy in Berlin on December 9, 2025.

Professor Hannes Bajohr's article "Pathos, Vectors, Mist" has been published in a special issue of Michigan Quarterly Review devoted to digital generative writing. In the essay, Bajohr discusses the idea of affect in both code poetry and AI-generated text.

https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/current-issue-fall-2025/

Professor Jeroen Dewulf has published the article “On the Dissemination of Carolingian Literature and Drama in the Former Portuguese Empire: A Comparative Analysis of African, Asian, and Latin American Variants of the Matter of France” in the new issue of Comparative Literature.

https://read.dukeupress.edu/comparative-literature/article-abstract/77/4...

Professor Jeroen Dewulf has published the article "The captives of the Bruynvisch (1627): new insights into the origins and ladino identities of Manhattan’s first enslaved Africans" in the new issue of Colonial Latin American Review.

Professor Jeroen Dewulf has been invited to deliver the 2026 Black History Month Address at Louisiana Tech University, organized in the context of the commemoration of the 250th anniversary of American Independence. He will be speaking on the history of the Louisiana Mardi Gras Indians.

Professor Karen Feldman gave a presentation on "Moralizing Styles: Job and his Readers" at the conference "Stil und Moral," held at the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL) in Berlin, Germany. 

On September 26, 2025, UC Berkeley students welcomed the Transatlantic Student Initiative (TSI) from Kiel, Germany to our campus for a group cultural exchange discussion and a campus tour. The Transatlantic Student Initiative is a student association that was created to foster transatlantic relations, and is supported by the Christian Albrecht University of Kiel (alternatively known as Kiel University) and the city of Kiel.