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, an Indian film-maker, cultural writer, and novelist based in Kolkata. Shot on 16 mm, both films reimagine the form of the essay film to propose […]
Panel discussion with Prof. Dr. Stephan Lessenich (Institute for Social Research & Goethe University), Dr. Jannik Rienhoff (lawyer, Marburg) & a representative of Green Legal Impact Germany e.V. as well as a collective member of Print Shop for All (former activist with end Fossil: occupy!) Participation also possible via Zoom: Here... ID code: 401979 Or […]
Interdisciplinary Conference This interdisciplinary conference brings together scholars at the intersection of philosophy, politics, economics, law, sociology and history to critically examine the problem of unchecked corporate. Goethe University Frankfurt, Campus Westend Building "Normative Orders", Room 5.01 Please register as soon as possible by emailing Mchugh@em.uni-frankfurt.de Participants: Rutger Claassen (Utrecht) Martin O'Neill (York) Hannes Kuch […]
International Conference Precise measurement is a hallmark of empirical scientific practice. Going back to the intellectual tradition of the revealed preference paradigm, empirical economic research is classically characterized by its strong emphasis of choice-based, behavioral approaches and corresponding measurement protocols. In recent years, the spectrum of measured characteristics (different sorts of preferences, behavioral biases, as […]
Ray's 1969 musical, which became one of his biggest hits, was based on a short story written by his grandfather for the magazine Sandesh, which he had founded in 1913 to improve the quality of literature for children in Bengal. In his adaptation, Ray transforms this enchanting story of two untalented musicians into a musical. […]
Young talent workshop In the 40 years since his death, Michel Foucault has also become a canonical author in the humanities and social sciences in Germany. He is part of the standard repertoire in introductory courses, and hardly any other author of the 20th century has had monographs, anthologies and introductory works published so regularly. […]
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, the word "colonial" is used in so many different ways that it can be described as a veritable semantic inflation. Originally used for 'overseas' conditions […]
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 talk begins from the premise that contemporary India's most inventive instances of home- spun entrepreneurialism remain outside the ambit of such top down mythologies. The […]
Workshop The Transformations of Citizenship Leibniz Research Group will be discussing work-in-progress that deals with mobility, migration, and civic boundary-drawing from different disciplinary perspectives. The papers discussed comprise work by the Research Group's members as well as by external guests. Program 10.35 Welcome 10.45 "Immigration Politics in Times of Autocratization" Katharina Natter (Leiden), chaired by […]