Imagining the Other Side of Things: Zafer Şenocak and Hidden Archives
MGP editor Elizabeth Sun follows up on our recent event with Zafer Şenocak, interrogating the possibilities for resistance that lie in the counter-hegemonic reconstruction of historical narrative. On Friday, April 2, we welcomed the widely published Turkish-German author Zafer Şenocak to the second installment of “Archives of Migration: The Power of Fiction in Times of […]
Generation Mini-Series: Contemporary German Historical Event-Television and the Implications of its Interactive Elements / by Sara F. Hall | TRANSIT
Generation Mini-Series: Contemporary German Historical Event-Television and the Implications of its Interactive Elements TRANSIT vol. 10, no. 2 Sara F. Hall Download PDF Abstract The controversial 2012 ZDF mini-series Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter/Generation War epitomizes German “historical event television,” a broadcasting trend aligned with the recent tendency to normalize the nation’s relationship with its past. Reaching […]
Digital Humanities as Translation: Visualizing Franz Rosenzweig’s Archive / by Matthew Handelman | TRANSIT
Digital Humanities as Translation: Visualizing Franz Rosenzweig’s Archive Matthew Handelman Download PDF Abstract This article consists of a theoretical framework for and a demonstration of the process of visualizing the finding aid to Franz Rosenzweig’s archive at the University of Kassel, which contains metadata describing documents and letters pertaining to the German-Jewish philosopher, pedagogue, and […]
Multicultural Germany Class: Week 7, Staging Diversity
This post is part of a series in which students reflect on their discussions in the UC Berkeley undergraduate seminar “Multicultural Germany.” This week’s summary is by Jennifer Lau: Museum exhibitions and culture commemorations served as the primary focal point for this week’s examination of institutions of multiculturalism in Germany. We began with a debate […]
Multicultural Germany Class: Week 5, Collective Memory
This post is part of a series in which students reflect on their discussions in the UC Berkeley undergraduate seminar “Multicultural Germany.” This week’s summary is by Ann Huang: As the discussion of a multicultural Germany progresses, the conversation naturally gravitates towards an analysis of the contemporary situation of ‘migrants’ and the persistent underlying difficulties to […]
Moving Europe Workshop: Migrant Archives (March 7, Berkeley)
You are invited to participate in the workshop Moving Europe: Migrant Archives Thursday, March 7, 12-2 pm, 201 Moses, Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley