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
Workshop on Migration & Memory
The Multicultural Germany Project would like to invite you to A Workshop on Migration & Memory November/18/2011 2.00 p.m. – 4.00 p.m. 282 Dwinelle For Fall 2011, the Multicultural Germany Project chose “Migration & Memory” as an umbrella topic
Multicultural Germany Project in the German Press
Deniz Utlu. “Das Archiv der Migration.” Der Freitag. 27 October 2011.
In Transit: A Panel on Migration & Multiculturalism
Following the 3.00 pm screening of Little Alien on Saturday, October 22nd at the Castro Theatre, Professor Deniz Göktürk of the Department of German at the University of California, Berkeley, will be in conversation with:
Workshop on Cinema & Migration: Homeland in Parentheses: Wedding Scenes in Transnational Films
Among migrant communities, wedding ceremonies are perhaps the most tangible enactments of cultural heritage and folklore. In films (such as Bride and Prejudice, Aram and Short Sharp and Shock), wedding scenes are used as an occasion to translate homeland and past into present space and time. They serve as key scenes to reflect on ties […]
Research Topic “Migration and Memory”
In fall 2011, the Multicultural Germany Project has chosen “Migration and Memory” as an umbrella topic for ongoing research, discussion, and events. This choice is partly inspired by public commemorations of 50 years of Turkish migration that are being staged in various German cities. Memories of migration continue to pose a challenge when it comes […]
TRANSIT – New Issue
TRANSIT, a Journal of Travel, Migration and Multiculturalism in the German-Speaking World, published by the Department of German, UC Berkeley, presents a new issue with essays on Cosmopolitical and Transnational Interventions in German Studies.
Ist das Konzept der Integration überholt? Theoretische Fassungen einer aktuellen Debatte.
Internationale Tagung vom 14. bis 15. Juli an der Universität Konstanz. Begleitend finden Vorträge im Rahmen des Konstanzer Kulturwissenschaftlichen Kolloquiums, eine Filmvorführung, Abendvorträge und eine Lesung statt.
Moving Topographies in Europe’s Borderzones
Guest lecture by Prof. Dr. Deniz Göktürk at the University of Konstanz, June 8, 2011: “Scheinreisen der Integration: Bewegte Bildtopographien an den Rändern Europas”.