Mosse Lecture

Joseph Vogl: The Spector of Capital: The Strange Survival of Theodicy in Economics

July 11, 2016

Joseph Vogl: "The Spector of Capital: The Strange Survival of Theodicy in Economics."

The Inaugural Mosse-Lecture at the University of California, Berkeley. Aufzeichnung der Inaugural Mosse-Lecture vom 7.4.2016 an University of California, Berkeley.

Can Architecture Be Democratic? with Jan Werner-Müller

March 9, 2018

Many people have an intuitive sense that the built environment is bound up with politics. The lecture poses the question how we might think more systematically (and normatively) about the relationship between democracy and architecture as well as public spaces as a particular form of the built environment. A very basic distinction between representing democracy, on the one hand, and facilitating democratic practices, on the other, will serve as a structuring feature. Tracing the difficulties of representing democratic principles and/or “the people”...

A Lecture and Conversation with Ulrike Ottinger

Presented on April 8, 2019

German filmmaker and artist Ulrike Ottinger presented an illustrated talk discussing her approach to the visual design of her films, as well as her research methods for a nonfiction project like CHAMISSO'S SHADOW. Following her presentation, Ottinger was joined for an onstage conversation with Deniz Göktürk, professor of German and film studies at UC Berkeley.

Presented by the UC Berkeley Department of German and BAMPFA

In Conversation with Werner Herzog

Presented on November 10, 2023

The author of more than a dozen books of prose, Herzog reads from the long-awaited Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir (Penguin Random House, October 10, 2023) and engages in conversation with Deniz Göktürk, Professor of German and Film at UC Berkeley.

Presented by the UC Berkeley Department of German and BAMPFA as part of the Mosse Lecture series.

The annual lecture is generously supported by the Mosse Foundation and reflects the foundation’s mission to...

The Utopian Prerogative with Ilija Trojanow

Presented on September 1, 2022

"Each day we are sold different versions of yesterday, but rarely offered a different tomorrow. The apocalypse streams into every household at a flat rate. In an era of dystopian forebodings, the future can no longer be taken for granted, and optimism is under siege. It seems high time for a reboot of utopian literature, in which a space that is not, may yet come to be in the future. We are near forgetting that history is not a foregone conclusion, and that fatalism is the last refuge of the coward. How we shape the future lies in our own hands, but...