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Past Events Archive
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Mister Universo | Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel | Austria, Italy, 2016, Apr 14
FEATURING Tairo Caroli, Wendy Weber, Arthur Robin, Each night, underneath a threadbare big top, Tairo puts an aging pride of big cats through their paces. Audiences may be dwindling, but the young lion tamer is happy, living a life that he’s dreamed of since he was a little boy. When some trailer …read more
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Vandals, Looters, Protestors, and Police: Consumer Culture and Street Politics Collide in Berlin, 1914-1945, Apr 13
After the First World War and 1918 Revolution, political partisans and commercial entrepreneurs took to the streets of Berlin and fought for the attention of crowds with posters, light displays, parades, traffic obstructions, and violence. New freedoms had transformed city streets into the primary medium of communication, lens of perception, …read more
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Cicero’s De Officiis – Stoic Ethics for Non-Stoics, Apr 12
Gisela Striker will present the Howison lecture on April 12, 2017 at 5:10 pm. Her lecture is titled “Cicero’s De Officiis – Stoic Ethics for Non-Stoics” is free and open to the public. No tickets are required. (Please note start time.) About the Lecture Professor Striker will show how the Stoic …read more
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Kicking out the Rogues: Should Federations be Able to Expel Member States?, Apr 10
When, if at all, should members get expelled from a federation? While accession to or secession from a federal union – such as the United States – has long been the issue of heated debates, only recently have the federal center’s sanctions on members in violation of common rules and …read more
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Soundwaves – The Passion of Noor Inayat Khan, Apr 8-9
SHOW TIMES Fri, April 7: 8 PM Sat, April 8: 2 PM and 6 PM Sun, April 9: 2 PM and 6 PM TICKETS & INFO $100, $50, $35, $25, $10 ‘The universe is made of sound. There is no solid matter. Nothing apparently solid lasts. Everything is made …read more
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Europe: A Literary History (1559-1648), Apr 6
Presented by the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Critical Bibliography. Join us for Dr Boutcher’s lecture, followed by a round table discussion with UC Berkeley faculty: Ivonne de Valle, Spanish & Portuguese Timothy Hampton, French and Comparative Literature Victoria Kahn, English and Comparative Literature Ignacio Navarrete, Spanish & Portuguese Diego Pirillo, Italian Studies …read more
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Austria and Migration: The Current Refugee Crisis in Historical Perspective, Apr 5
Migration is the single biggest challenge for European countries and the European Union today. It is closely linked to questions of (national) identity, social pluralism, and diversity. The talk focuses on Austria as an example and puts the current so-called „refugee crisis“ in the context of the broader history of …read more
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Romance outside Europe, Apr 5
The Romance Linguistics Working Group and Francophone Studies Working Group are pleased to announce an upcoming mini-colloquium, set for April 5, 2017. We invite all of you who work with Romance languages in conjunction with literature or linguistics, be it in contemporary or historical contexts, to join us. The theme …read more
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From Anti-fascism to Anti-Zionism to Undeclared War: The West German Left, the East German Regime and Israel 1949-1989, Apr 3
After Nazism and the Holocaust the East German government became a fierce opponent of the state of Israel, one that it denounced as a “spearhead” of US imperialism. Beginning in the 1960s and continuing to the end of the Cold War, the East German Communists combined hostile propaganda with military …read more
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1924: The Year of Peace? Photography, Publics, and Weimar Republic Pacifism, Apr 3
In the early years of the Weimar Republic a range of new polities, collectives, and publics grew up within the newly-formed democratic state. This created conditions for new forms of political action and address. In this lecture, two case studies – Ernst Friedrich’s book War against War! and John Heartfield’s …read more