Spring 2023 Commencement for German Bachelor’s (majors), Master’s, and Ph.D. students: Monday May 15, 2023   9-11am Zellerbach Playhouse 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

Title: “Ad ultimos. Differences, Peripheries, and Horizons as Generators of the Adventurous around 1200 CE”

Title:  “Femininity in Goethe`s Stella”

Title:   “Gendergerechte Sprache in Texten für medizinische Laien – Diskursanalyse zur Darstellung von „anormalen“ Symptomen bei Frauen am Beispiel des Myokardinfarkts und dem Einfluss gendergerechter Sprachformen”  

Outrageous Comparisons in Modern History and Contemporary Politics Lecture | March 14 | 5-6:30 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall Speaker: Willibald Steinmetz, Bielefeld University Moderator: Akasemi Newsome, Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley Sponsors: Institute of European Studies, German Historica Insitute Washington (Pacific Office, Berkeley), Department of History Professor Willibald Steinmetz will give a work-in-progress report on a book he is currently writing about ‘outrageous comparisons’, i.e. comparisons that create public outrage or other strong emotional outbursts such as hatred, disgust, or long-lasting resentment. Polemical equations of someone with Hitler or the Nazis, or analogies to the Holocaust, are the most salient cases in point, but by…

“An Affect of Non-Belonging: Precarious Kinship and Conflicting Memories in Cho Sung-hyung’s Korean-German Documentary Trilogy”

Unequal Re-education Schooling and Democracy in West Germany, 1945-1955 Lecture | March 6 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall Speaker: Phillip Wagner, University of Halle Moderator: Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann, UC Berkeley Sponsors: Institute of European Studies, German Historical Institute Washington | Pacific Office Berkeley Zoom Link Available It is not only since the global rise of populism that the German public debates whether democracy needs to be more inclusive. Whereas some policy-makers and intellectuals argue for more programs to empower long marginalized communities, others argue that liberal democracies have to accept social injustice. Going back to the attempts of Allied and German policy-makers and educators…

Moderator:  Kristin Dickinson, Associate Professor of German Studies, University of Michigan Sponsors:  Institute of European Studies, Department of German, German Historical Institute Washington | Pacific Office Berkeley Peyman Azhari is an Iranian-German visual artist specializing in photojournalism. While often place-based, his work explores questions of home and belonging in the aftermath of migration, revealing the interlaced nature of the local and transnational. His book length projects include Heimat 132 (2015)—which offers a glimpse into the radical diversity of northern Dortmund through both photographs and interviews—and 1440 Minutes New York City (2011). With a specialization in reportage photography, Azhari’s additional projects have focused on everyday people in transit on…

Organizers: Ambika Athreya, Elise Volkmann, Verena Wolf    Berkeley 2023 German Studies Conference:   Fictions of Reproduction (Online)   Join the conference meeting room on Zoom by clicking here or scanning the QR Code. (Meeting ID: 998 4212 1224; Passcode: 333132) Day 1: Friday, February 24, 2023   9:00-9:15 PST / 18:00-18:15 MEZ Introductory Remarks by Ambika Athreya (UC Berkeley)   9:15-10:40 PST / 18:15-19:40 MEZ   Panel 1 – Taming, Staging and Rhapsodizing the Maternal Body Moderator: Verena Wolf (UC Berkeley)   Commentator:  Dr. Patrick Hohlweck (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/UC Berkeley) Marcella Fassio (Freie Universität Berlin) – Zwischen Verstummen und Anklagen: Repräsentationen…

Moderator:  Philipp Lenhard, DAAD Associate Professor of History and German, UC Berkeley Sponsors:  Institute of European Studies, Center for German and European Studies, German Historical Institute Washington | Pacific Office Berkeley, Department of History, Department of German Zoom Link Available This talk takes up the challenge of analyzing German experimentations with genetics in the wake of Nazism. After the Second World War, Mendel’s peas once again became the order of the day, as researchers in both East and West Germany increasingly regarded the genetic management and manipulation of crop plants as a key solution to planetary woes, from food insecurity to war. Their work was prolific…