ConTrust Research seminar "India as Method: Challenges and Perspectives in the Study of Media and Politics in Contemporary South Asia" This presentation will examine the use of locations in Bombay cinema since the turn of the 21st century. The complicated workings of various kinds of production infrastructures typically shape cinema's topographical motivations and sense of […]
author-meets-criticsProf.Dr. Tilo Wesche (Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg) discusses with Dr. Andreas Gutmann (University of Kassel) & Prof. Dr. Doris Schweitzer (Goethe University)Participation also possible via Zoom: Here... ID code: 401979 Or by dialing in via the app: Webinar ID: 650 7980 7777 ID code: 401979 An event by Dr. Johan Horst (Max Planck Institute […]
Public lecture The Basic Law contains comprehensive guarantees of freedom. From the very beginning, constitutional practice has developed a wide range of concrete content from the openly formulated fundamental rights. The result is a constitution of freedom that is unique in Germany to date. In it, freedom is not without its obligations. The Basic Law […]
Lecture by Prof. Dr. Gabriele Britz (Professor of Public Law with a focus on constitutional law at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main)
APARAJITO tells two intertwined stories, that of a boy's exciting departure into the world and that of the loss of his mother at his departure. The film can be seen in the light of Satyajit Ray's own biography and a life experience of cosmopolitanism with strong roots in a particular, hybrid cultural milieu in Bengal. […]
2024 European Copyright Society Conference The European Copyright Society (la Société européenne du droit d'auteur) was founded in January 2012 with the aim of creating a platform for critical and independent scholarly thinking on European Copyright Law and policy. Its members are scholars and academics from various countries of Europe, seeking to articulate and promote […]
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 book-in-progress about the cinematic legacies of the vibrant left cultural movement spearheaded in the 1940s by the Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA), the cultural wing […]
55th Römerberg Talks Saturday, May 25, 2024 The uniqueness of the Shoah and Germany's special responsibility are part of the identity of the old Federal Republic of Germany: the protection of Jewish life as the last resort of German domestic and foreign policy stems from the murder of millions of European Jews. At the latest […]
Public lecture The event will present the results of the DFG research project KviAPol (Assault in Office by Police Officers) , which ran from 2018 to 2023. Based on a quantitative survey of victims with over 3,300 participants and over 60 qualitative interviews with experts from the police, justice system and civil society, the project […]