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 […]
Frankfurt Lectures "The Idea of the Public: Two Kantian Themes" Lecture by Prof Arthur Ripstein (Faculty of Law and Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto) Public institutions exercise powers that no private person can enjoy; they collect taxes, impose binding resolution on disputes, define and punish crimes and make difficult choices that benefit some people […]
Frankfurt Lectures "The Idea of the Public: Two Kantian Themes" Lecture by Prof Arthur Ripstein (Faculty of Law and Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto) The Kantian idea of freedom objects to any situation in which one person is subject to the private choice of another. Public institutions can only act through individual natural persons, […]
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 praxis of performing knowledge. Please register in advance: Here... Grada Kilomba is a Berlin-based Portuguese artist, whose work draws on memory, trauma and post-colonialism. Using […]
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 transformation of historiography since the 1990s from the perspective of the history of knowledge and media. How has historiography changed since it increasingly became an […]
International Conference organized by the Goethe University Global Health Justice Postdoctoral Program There are currently vast asymmetries both within and between countries when it comes to the matter of who experiences good health. Some people enjoy long lives largely characterized by the absence of illness and can access high-quality medical treatment when illness does arise. […]
PARASH PATHAR (The Philosopher's Stone) from 1958 is a light-footed thought-experiment that was initially dismissed by critics and educated audiences as a comedy that was only of local interest, but which has layers and references that point far beyond that. Ray liked to talk about how much fun he had making it. Joy, rather than […]
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 Americans Wilford Deming Jr. and C. Willman, this talk will present debates about audio technologies and sonic cultures circulating in India during the period of […]