Workshop with Keynote "By now it is only too well known," wrote Judith N. Shklar in her first book, After Utopia, "that democracy is not inevitable, that it may be destroyed from within, and that even the most successful constitutional democracies are not the models of social perfection that the Enlightenment had dreamed about." In […]
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? Might distrust and skepticism also have their place in democratic politics? If so, what should these attitudes be like not to undermine and even strengthen […]
Lecture & Film "Black Atlantic Cinema" Lecture: Didi Cheeka, Vinzenz Hediger Lecture: Nollywood and the Black Atlantic. On Kenneth Gyang's "Confusion Na Wa" (2013) Rather than wait for government support or European money Nigerian filmmakers in the 1990s started a film industry from scratch and on their own terms. Initially influenced by Brazilian soap operas […]
Water is one of our most important resources for life. It is also the central medium through which we recognize climate change. What's more, over 90 percent of catastrophic events worldwide are linked to water. The overuse of water resources, unequal distribution, loss of ecosystem services and the associated health risks can increasingly lead to […]
Symposium and Book Launch on the Book "Insurgent Cultures. World Literatures and Violence from the Global South" by Pavan Kumar Malreddy.
Lecture & Film "Black Atlantic Cinema" Lecture: Iyabo Kwayana (New Hampshire) Lecture: Terror and the Time: A Reflection on Poetic Resistance This talk will explore the poetry of Martin Carter as a powerful source of anti-colonial resistance, particularly within the context of Guyanese social and cultural movements. As the child of Eusi Kwayana, one of […]
56th Römerberg Talks Immigration currently seems to be Germany's most important problem. Elections are won or lost on this issue. The fear of growing crime, terrorist attacks by foreign perpetrators and the alarm cries of overburdened municipalities form a nightmare scenario with which populist parties are driving the political establishment before them. Anyone who […]
Workshop Program: 10:15 am Beginning of the Workshop; Welcome 10:30-11:30 a.m. Anacrusis 1. talking about peace in war/Speaking peace in war - what for? (input Lothar Brock/ Hendrik Simon) Discussion in the Forum 11:30-11:45 a.m. Coffee Break 11:45-13:15 Panel 1: German peace theory/Theorizing peace in Germany 2. view from the outside/Looking from the outside in […]
Frankfurt-Harvard Conference on surveillance and digital intermediaries. With two keynotes by Nicole Starosielski, UC Berkeley and Nick Couldry, LSE.