ConTrust Research seminar „India as Method: Challenges and Perspectives in the Study of Media and Politics in Contemporary South Asia“ With Moinak Biswas It was commonly believed that with the development of modern forms, Indian cinema will present a fuller notion of the individual. We have had reasons to question that equation between modernity and individualization. […]
Public Lecture within the Political Theory Colloquium Prof. Dr. Jonathan Wolff (Alfred Landecker Professor of Values and Public Policy und Governing Body Fellow am Wolfson College, Universität Oxford) Prof. Dr. Jonathan Wolff, Fellow of the British Academy, is the Alfred Landecker Professor of Values and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, Fellow of Wolfson College, […]
Public Lecture Prof. Dr. Jonathan Wolff (Alfred Landecker Professor of Values and Public Policy und Governing Body Fellow am Wolfson College, Universität Oxford) Nationalism has been described as an affront to civilised values but now we see it on the rise, once more, around the globe. Drawing on an account of my father’s early life in Frankfurt, and the effect […]
Satyajit Rays nimmt in der Forschung zum indischen Kino eine zentrale Stellung ein. Meist werden seine Filme unter den Gesichtspunkten von Humanismus und Realismus gelesen. DEVI und MONIHARA (Die verlorenen Juwelen), das Mittelstück des Episodenfilms Die drei Töchter und Rays einziger Horror-Film, bieten eine Gelegenheit über das Unheimliche und Nicht-Menschliche in seinem Werk nachzudenken. Meheli Sen ist Associate Professor im […]
Meheli Sen (Rutgers University, New Jersey) This talk looks at genre cinema particularly the horror film-to situate it within India’s contemporary media cultures. In the face of totalitarian discourses that detine the nation-state, Meheli Sen suggests that regional-language horror offers a salubrious environment to register difference and dissent in potent and unexpected ways.
ConTrust Research seminar „India as Method: Challenges and Perspectives in the Study of Media and Politics in Contemporary South Asia“ With Meheli Sen From its very inception, questions of realism and melodrama—broadly understood—have informed studies of Indian cinema. With a few exceptions, critics and scholars have seen these aesthetic and analytical frameworks as hermetically sealed off—aligned […]
Goethe Lectures Offenbach Prof. Dr. Rainer Forst (Professor für Politische Theorie und Philosophie und Direktor des Forschungszentrums “Normative Ordnungen” der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt) In aktuellen Analysen der Krise der Demokratie wird in Verbindung mit dem Aufkommen autoritärer Populismen der Begriff der demokratischen bzw. antidemokratischen Regression verwendet. In seinem Vortrag diskutiert Rainer Forst die normativen Voraussetzungen, die den […]
Book lɔ:ntʃ Mit: Prof. em. Dr. Karl-Heinz Kohl (emeritierter Professor für Ethnologie an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Mitglied des Forschungszentrums „Normative Orders“) C. H. Beck 2024 Was haben Montaignes Kulturkritik und die amerikanische Demokratie, Freuds Totemismus-Theorie und Lévi-Strauss‘ Strukturalismus, Brücke-Maler und Surrealisten, Hippies und die Sexuelle Revolution miteinander gemein? Karl-Heinz Kohl zeigt am Beispiel von neun […]
ConTrust Speaker Series Lecture by Adam Kelly (Associate Professor of English at University College Dublin) In the famous 2008 paper announcing the invention of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto justified the new currency on the basis of a need for Internet commerce to eliminate the problem of trust. “What is needed is an electronic payment system based on cryptographic […]