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 presentation […]
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 Stefan Schlegel (Bern) 11.45 “Selecting […]
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 more than […]
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, and the […]
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 performance, staged […]
Kantorowicz Lecture 2024 Mit Prof. Dr. Monika Dommann (Professorin für Geschichte der Neuzeit, Universität Zürich) 35 Jahre nach dem 1989 proklamierten Ende der Geschichte blickt die Lecture aus einer wissens- und medienhistorischen Perspektive der Gegenwart auf den Wandel der Geschichtsschreibung seit den 1990er Jahren zurück. Wie veränderte sich die Geschichtswissenschaft, seit sie vermehrt zur Instanz der Aufarbeitung […]
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 (Der Stein des Weisen) von 1958 ist ein leichtfüßiges Gedankenex – periment, das von Kritik und einem gebildeten Publikum zunächst als Komödie abgetan wurde, die nur von lokalem Interesse sei, die aber Ebenen und Bezüge aufweist, die darüber weit hinaus weisen. Ray sprach gerne davon, wie viel Spaß er beim Drehen hatte. Freude, eher […]
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 cinema’s […]