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“Heinrich von Kleist: Dramatic Challenges to Truth” – Kleist’s writings are an ideal guide to staging the literal meaning of language and to understanding the conceptual significance of verbal images. Identity formation, historical understanding, the lure of the abyss, the violence of stereotyping will be some of the topics to …read more
Semiotic Circle of California Thirtieth Meeting, January 24, 2015 University of California, Berkeley Seaborg Room, Faculty Club 9:20 Stephanie Peltner (UC Berkeley): “A Look at Alternating Inflections in the Irregular Past of Given German Verbs” 9:40 Mark Riley (CSU Sacramento): “Poetry in two Worlds: Latin Pastoral at the court of King James I” 10:00 Denise …read more
This panel discusses the Low Countries’ holiday blackface character Zwarte Piet (Black Pete) and the ongoing contestations it raises in the Netherlands from several perspectives. What can Black Pete tell about the way in which the Netherlands deals with its legacy of colonialism and slavery? Can the Black Pete controversies …read more
UC Berkeley German Film Club presents “Requiem” (dir. Hans-Christian Schmid, 2006). …read more
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Member states of the European Union are legally committed to the principle of the so-called agnostic or impartial state, guaranteeing both freedom of religion and freedom from religion. European constitutional law sees state neutrality in matters religious as a conditio sine qua non for liberal, parliamentary, and social democracy and …read more
UC Berkeley German Film Club presents “Anatomy” (dir. Stefan Ruzowitzky, 2000) …read more
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