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Selbst wie die Moiren eine Tochter der Nyx und damit Teil jenes geheimnisvollen Dunkels, vor dem, wie Karl Philipp Moritz in seiner Götterlehre schreibt, noch die Götter selbst scheuen, korrigiert Nemesis gleichermaßen menschliche Hybris wie übermäßige Geschenke der Tyche. Knapp drei Jahrhunderte nach ihrer Wiederentdeckung in der Frührenaissance wird die …read more
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The European integration project has never been a smooth process and what started off as a post-world war II project to bring peace and economic cooperation has today evolved into a confederal block of 28 Member States that form the second largest economy in the world (based on PPP). The …read more
How does Europe view the outcome of the US Presidential Election? This is one of the many questions that will be discussed in this lecture. …read more
In her recent book Art of Suppression: Confronting the Nazi Past in the Visual and Performing Arts, Pamela Potter considers how historians of art, music, theater, film, and dance tended to distort the image of cultural life under Hitler as far more repressive than it actually was. Her investigation showed …read more
This seminar will introduce participants to the field of literary text mining, currently one of the most active areas of research in digital humanities. In the first part of the seminar, we will consider how text mining, and digital humanities more generally, can be situated within the context of broader …read more
A talk by Visiting Professor Anna Sandberg, University of Copenhagen. …read more
The history of music intertwines with the history of work in ways that reveal remarkable affinities between “homo faber” and “homo ludens,” between the working man and the playing man. This lecture considers the broad outlines of these intertwined histories. It focuses especially on Germany in the half-century before the …read more
The refugee crisis has been portrayed as a possible breaking point for Angela Merkel’s chancellorship. With rising support for the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) and big wins at recent regional elections, it seems Germany is falling prey to the political instability seen in other European states. However, the …read more