Lecture & Film "Black Atlantic Cinema" Lecture: Daniel Fairfax (Frankfurt) Lecture: Symbolic Capital: Mandabi (1968) by Ousmane Sembene An adaptation of his own novella Le Mandat, Ousmane Sembene's Mandabi (1968) was the first feature-length film made in the Wolof language, following Senegalese independence in 1960. The protagonist Ibrahima (Makhouredia Gueye), an endearingly feckless unemployed man […]
Keynote and symposium Please register at frickel@em.uni-frankfurt.de. Program (pdf): Here... Program January 16, 2025, 6 p.m. Keynote Vanessa E. Thompson (Queen's University Canada | International Independent Commission to Investigate the Death of Oury Jalloh) Symposium January 17, 2025 10.00-11:30 Panel 1 20 years of struggle for clarification: the Oury Jalloh case Initiative in […]
Lecture & Film "Black Atlantic Cinema" Lecture: Jennifer Blaylock (Rowan University) Lecture: The Thin Green Line Between Canons and Revolutions. On Sarah Maldoror's Sambizanga (1972) What happens to the revolutionary grainy aesthetics, the militancy of the imperfect image, the subversive qualities of the damaged 16mm print, when a film enters the artistic canon? This talk […]
Final annual conference of the ConTrust initiative Program January 23, 2025 15:00 Welcome (Spokespersons of ConTrust) 15:15 Panel 1 The Justification of Trust Moderation: Prof. Greta Wagner (Goethe University) Prof. Rainer Forst (Goethe University), Dr. Chiara Destri (Goethe University), Dr. Regina Schidel (Goethe University), Prof. Mark Warren (University of British Columbia) 17:15 Coffee Break 18:00 […]
Lecture & Film: Black Atlantic Cinema Lecture: Janaína Oliveira (Rio de Janeiro) Lecture: Key Works of Afro-Brazilian Short Film Janaína Oliveira has a Ph.D. in History and is a professor at the Federal Institute of Rio de Janeiro (IFRJ). She is Head Programmer at the Zózimo Bulbul Black Film Festival in Rio de Janeiro and […]
Lecture as part of the event series "Climate in court/Climate Contested" with Dr. Johan Horst (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory) and Prof'in. Dr. Doris Schweitzer (Goethe University) from the DFG network "Law in the Anthropocene". The event series "Klima vor Gericht/Climate Contested. Interdisciplinary perspectives on law(s) in the ecological crisis" addresses […]
Workshop Please register at: jonas.heller@normativeorders.net Thursday, January 30th, 16:00-18:00 Introduction: Simon Gurisch Panel 1: Race Reference: Saidiya Hartman, Scenes of Subjection Participants: Penny Deutscher (Northwestern), Juliane Rebentisch (Hamburg) Moderation: Rime Abd Al Majeed Friday, January 31st 10:00-12:00: Panel 2: Gender Reference: Judith Butler, Bodies That Matter Participants: Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky (Bochum), Adriana Zaharijević (Beograd) Moderation: Hannah […]
In contemporary political discussions, diagnoses of a crisis of democracy are often linked to the statement that social cohesion is at risk and needs to be strengthened. However, the answers to the question of what form of cohesion is characteristic and desirable for a democracy are diverse. They range from nationalist to cosmopolitan positions, from […]
The Record and the Narrative. The Documentary Cinema of Ra'anan Alexandrowicz Ra'anan Alexandrowicz, born in Jerusalem in 1969, is one of the most important documentary filmmakers of our time. His award-winning cinematic investigations into questions of law, power and testimony in Israel and Palestine are shown at all the world's major festivals. "The Law in […]