Lecture
Shadow Lines: Tracing the Cinematic Legacies of the 1940s Indian Left Cultural Movement
Manishita Dass (Royal Holloway, University of London) The talk explores some of the methodological challenges and insights that Dass has encountered and gained, respectively, while working on Left Luggage, her […]
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Mapping the networks of gendered performance, labor, and mobility
Priyadarshini Shanker (University of North Carolina, Wilmington) This talk intervenes in three prevailing frameworks of Indian film and media studies – auteurist approaches, history of film movements, and digital media […]
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Memories of a Milk City (1991) and Tales of Planet Kolkata (1993)
Ruchir Joshi (film-maker, columnist and writer based in Calcutta) This program includes two essay films Memories of a Milk City (1991) and Tales of Planet Kolkata (1993) by Ruchir Joshi, […]
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The Pedagogy of the Piratical
Bhaskar Sarkar (University of California, Santa Barbara) Even as techno-nationalist fantasies fuel India’s dreams of superpowerdom, inserting the country into a universal narrative of global ascension via market liberalization, this […]
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Transitioning into Noise: 1930s Film Technology Debates in India
Lecture Neepa Majumdar (University of Pittsburgh) Using film excerpts, ads for sound recording and projection equipment, sound technicians’ columns, as well as reports by and about salesmen-technicians, such as the […]
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General suspicion – social conflicts surrounding so-called clan crime
Lecture and discussion With Mohammed Ali Chahrour (co-editor of the book “Generalverdacht”) and Dr. Robert Pelzer (TU Berlin) In recent years, the social discourse surrounding so-called clan crime has intensified, […]
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Persistent differences: attitudes towards migration and gender in East and West Germany
Prof. Dr. Daniela Grunow (Professor of Sociology with a focus on “Quantitative Analyses of Social Change”, Research Institute for Social Cohesion, Normative Orders) and Dr. Mirko K. Braack (Post-Doc at […]
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What does “colonial” mean? On the significance of a historical qualification
Dan Diner (Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem) in conversation with Miloš Vec (Professor of Legal and Constitutional History at the University of Vienna) Today, […]
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Lunchtalk for women and Early Career Researchers with Grada Kilomba
In an informal lunch setting, we aim to open a space for Grada Kilomba to talk about her experiences and insights into knowledge production within and without academia and the […]
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No end to history? Historiography since the 1990s
Kantorowicz Lecture 2024 With Prof. Dr.Monika Dommann (Professor of Modern History, University of Zurich) 35 years after the end of history proclaimed in 1989, the lecture looks back on the […]
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On Distrust in Democracy
Keynote In the face of a widely diagnosed “crisis of democracy,” calls for more trust and social cohesion are commonplace. But to what extent is democracy a matter of trust? […]
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Ignorance. Creates. Racism.
Public lecture Racism is a problem. Nobody wants to be a racist and yet racism persists in our society. What unconscious contribution do we make every day to maintaining racist […]
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