She presented a paper titled “Redefining Media Literacy” at a three-day seminar on “German Studies Approaches to Media Literacy,” co-organized by Thomas Küpper, Tanja Nusser, and Rolf Parr. This paper grew out of Prof. Lilla Balint’s seminar on “Digital Literatures, Critical Practices” last semester.
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October 1, 2022
Co-edited with Cynthia Walk from the Sunrise Foundation for the Study of German Cinema and Media, WeimarCinema.org represents a central online archive and research hub for the exploration of Weimar film culture. The project would not have been possible without the collaboration of former and current graduate students in the German department.
September 27, 2022
Elizabeth presented her paper titled "Halbzeug Realities: How do we interpret machine-generated literature?" as part of the "Modeling IR-Reality" panel.
Molly's paper was titled "'Was übrig bleibt:' Max Czollek and the ‘Lachrymose Aesthetic’ in Contemporary German-Jewish Poetry”; it was part of the panel “Jews - Holocaust - Poetry." The LBI fellowship was awarded for her dissertation project with the working title, After Auschwitz: Contemporary German-Jewish Poetics and the Persistence of the Past). Since the grant is geographically flexible, she will spend a year in Berlin.
Freya's article "Queering the Screen: Spectral Figures and German-Taiwanese Encounters in Monika Treut’s Ghosted" was published in Seminar (University of Toronto Press) vol 58 Issue 3 September 2022, pp. 251-270.
September 20, 2022
(TRANSIT, VOL. 13, ISSUE 2, 2022: TRANSIT )
Under the topic of Archival Engagement, the beautifully designed issue contains refereed scholarly essays, including work of our own UCB graduate students and alums as authors, translators, and reviewers.
September 18, 2022
Verena's paper, "Narratives of Risk: Aesthetic Form and Language in Christa Wolf’s Störfall," was part of a conference, "The Automated Condition. Manifestations and Narratives in Art, Literature, and Culture," which was organized by Princeton's Department of German from May 11- May 13, 2022.
May 2, 2022
The Hygienic Apparatus: Weimar Cinema and Environmental Disorder by Paul Dobryden. The book was published by Northwestern University Press in April 2022.
Sebastian Haselbeck completed his Berkeley Ph.D. degree in 2018 and teaches at the Universität Greifswald, Germany.
The book was published by Konstanz University Press in September 2021
SEBASTIAN HASELBECK, GESPENSTISCHE SOUVERÄNITÄT
Das Ende des Kaiserreichs und die Novemberrevolution von 1918 markieren einen Umbruch, der die Zwischenkriegszeit in Atem halten wird. Es beginnt die Suche nach alternativen politischen Figuren und Gebrauchsanweisungen für eine Gegenwart, in der Herrschaft und ihre Repräsentation neu verhandelt werden.
April 8, 2022
Former Berkeley Ph.D. student Cara Tovey accepted a position as a lecturer in the newly created Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies at UCLA. Cara taught for three years as a Visiting Assistant Professor of German at the College of Charleston, in Charleston, N.C.
April 7, 2022
Kumars accepted a position as a Visiting Assistant Professor of German and Film in the Department of World Languages, Cultures and Media at St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York. Herzlichen Glückwunsch!
April 5, 2022
Elizabeth's paper, "Denial, Delay, and Disruption in Abbas Khider’s Der falsche Inder and Christian Petzold’s Transit"was part of the conference titled "Goodbye, Mutti!: Reflecting on the 16 Year Legacy of Kanzlerin Merkel,” hosted by UT-Austin's Graduate Association of Germanic-Language Students (GAGLS).
Freya's paper, "Reality, Layered Artifice, and Encounters with the Foreign in Werner Herzog’s Family Romance, LLC," was a contribution to a panel called "Negotiating the Documentary: Aesthetics, Ethics, Affects."
March 25, 2022
Read his short story “Mountain”. Congratulations Sean!
March 23, 2022
Jonathan Aaron Cho-Polizzi accepted a position as a LSA Collegiate Postdoctoral Fellow (2022) and Assistant Professor of German (2024) at the University of Michigan. Congratulations!
March 22, 2022
Congratulations to Michael Sandberg and Evan Strouss on being selected for the Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor award. Evan's and Michael's dedication to teaching, engagement with students, and conscientious work merit this acknowledgment by the department and the university. We are fortunate to have them working with our students! Congratulations!
March 15, 2022
In spring 2021, Professors Deniz Göktürk and Elisabeth Krimmer (University of California, Davis) launched a series of real-time video conversations with contemporary writers entitled “Archives of Migration: The Power of Fiction in Times of Fake News.” This ongoing series engages writers who bring diverse perspectives to questions of societal polarization and the power of poetic imagination. The conversations present opportunities to discuss contemporary literature in translation – in correspondence with visual arts and politics.
March 11, 2022
Sean published a review of the film Der Zauberberg (2020) at Docaloguea website dedicated to the academic discussion of contemporary documentaries.
March 10, 2022
Dr. Eva Eßlinger (LMU-Munich) presented a paper at the UC Berkeley German Department, entitled “Weißräume: Zum Textbild in der Moderne.”
Priscilla writes about the origins of the book: “While I was living in Berlin in fall of 2018 on a fellowship from the American Academy, I made the acquaintance of German graphic novelist Birgit Weyhe. I was working on an essay about the depiction of race in her books, and she invited me to Hamburg to interview her. We became friends and Birgit pitched the idea of working on an autobiographical comic about my experiences growing up in Chicago and then living in Germany.
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