Talk on Radical Right in Europe at UC Berkeley
The Radical Right and the Politics of Xenophobia in Europe Lecture | February 20 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall Speaker: Michael Minkenberg, Dept. of Political Science, Viadrina University Sponsor: Institute of European Studies Followed by Information Session on Berkeley/Viadrina Exchange Program – (4:00 pm)
Workshop — Circulating Humor: Nonsense Politics
14 September 2012, 4 – 7 pm, Institute for International Studies, 223 Moses. Infotainment rules. Year-end television ratings in 2011 confirmed that The Daily Show and The Colbert Report had drawn more viewers than Fox News, the most watched news channel in the US. What does this tell us about the state of democracy and participation? […]
Orienting Europe: The Borders of Memory
A Workshop Growing out of a graduate seminar on “Orienting Europe” taught by Deniz Göktürk, this workshop will analyze symbolic constructions of Europe in moving images. The workshop is
Erinnerungsorte und Kiezdeutsch
Das Multicultural Germany Project präsentiert Erinnerungsorte und Kiezdeutsch. Eine interdisziplinäre Werkstattdiskussion über Norm und Praxis der Integration mit Patrice Poutrus und Heike Wiese am Mittwoch, 21. März, 16-18 Uhr, 282 Dwinelle
FRAU KUTZER UND ANDERE BEWOHNER DER NAUNYNSTRASSE
The Multicultural Germany Project presents the screening of Frau Kutzer und andere Bewohner der Naunynstrasse, followed by a discussion. Please join us on Friday, March 9, 2012, from 2-4 p.m. (Dwinelle 282). 1973 was the year of the global oil crisis and Germany’s moratorium on the recruitment of guest workers. That same year,
Aris Fioretos zu seinem Roman /Der letzte Grieche/ (2011)
Lesung und Diskussion präsentiert vom Multicultural Germany Project am 6. März, Dienstag, 16:30-18:30 Uhr, 282 Dwinelle *Aris Fioretos zu seinem Roman /Der letzte Grieche/ (2011):* *Vielsprachige Migrationsgeschichte aus Karteikarten*
CFP – Participatory Media and Public Memory
We, the editors of TRANSIT, would like to draw your attention to our current CFP: Participatory Media and Public Memory. For this special issue,
Critical Perspectives on Werner Herzog’s “Lessons of Darkness”
The Department of Film & Media and the Multicultural Germany Project present: Critical Perspectives on Werner Herzog’s “Lessons of Darkness” (1992) Wednesday, February 22, 2012, 6–9 pm Geballe Room, Townsend Center for the Humanities 220 Stephens Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720–2340
Folge der Feder! (Follow the Feather)
Helin, on her father’s death, travels from Tunceli, Turkey to Berlin to meet her mother and sister. To actually meet the guy he is to marry, she is guided through a white feather that appears in her dreams. Meanwhile, she is stalked by a man who has paid to marry her, and she tries to […]
Inch’Allah dimanche (Sunday God Willing)
The story of an immigrant woman struggling against old world traditions. Zouina leaves her homeland with her three children to join her husband in France, where he’s been living for the past ten years. In a land and culture foreign to her, Zouina struggles against her mother-in-law’s tyrannical hand and her husband’s distrustful bitterness in […]