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Hito Steyerl is one of the most critically acclaimed artists working in the field of video today. Holding a PhD in philosophy from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and teaching at the Universität der Künste Berlin, she is also a frequent contributer to E-Flux magazine, a lecturer, and an …read more
Invited Speakers: Prof. Caroline Levine – University of Wisconsin – Madison Prof. Samuel Frederick – Penn State University …read more
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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 Architect’s Picture Book), his bestselling travelogue, portrayed a culturally primitive society degraded by jungle capitalism, but …read more
Throughout the 20th century, for many Jews being Jewish meant first and foremost being together with other Jews. Despite its enormous significance for the understanding of the past, historians so far have dealt with friendship as if it was more or less a biographic accident. However, it is beyond controversy …read more
Moritz D. Oppenheim (1800-1882), often celebrated as the first modern Jewish painter, created Lavater and Lessing Visit Moses Mendelssohn in 1856. The painting portrays an imagined mid-18th century meeting among scholars and intellectual associates Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781), and the Swiss theologian Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801), …read more
Among the most important components of The Magnes’ pictorial holdings is a collection of nearly one thousand posters acquired worldwide since the 1960s. This diverse and fascinating group of works has been acquired via a broad network of paper and print collectors, purchased in museum stores, or simply taken off …read more
Thirty-first Meeting, January 23, 2016 University of California, Berkeley Seaborg Room, Faculty Club 9:20 Scott Shell (UC Berkeley): “On the Semantic Extension of the Word wight” 9:40 Ellen McCracken (UC Santa Barbara): “The Fashion System: Homologous Structures of Text and Paratext” 10:00 Mark Riley (CSU Sacramento): “The Art of the Blurb in the …read more
Did you know that Germany offers excellent and affordable higher education? Are you interested in spending some time at a German university during the summer, for a semester or to get a degree supported by DAAD scholarships and grants? DAAD representatives will give you an overview of the German university …read more