Monthly Archives: October 2009
Marwa S. — Prozess gegen Alex W.
Artikelsammlung zu Marwa S. und Info über den Prozessbeginn Spiegel Online: Der Fall Marwa
Günther Wallraff Blacks Up for New Film “Schwarz auf Weiß”
Official Film Website Spiegel: “Kritik an neuem Wallraff-Film. Einfach nur der Fremde” Deutsche Welle: “New film aims to uncover latent, and blatant, German racism” Tagesschau: “Interview: Ein angemalter Weißer ist kein Schwarzer”
Berlin’s Nefertiti Trouble
Spiegel Online: Egyptian Official Calls Museum Behavior ‘Suspicious’ October 20, 2009 Spiegel Online: Nefertiti Gets a New Palace: Revamped Neues Museum Finally Opens in Berlin New York Times online: When Ancient Artifacts Become Political Pawns October 16, 2009 Amidst … Continue reading
“Tear Down This Wall!”: Internet Art Circumventing Censorship and Unveiling Secret Prisons
Internet Artists Mathias Jud and Christoph Wachter Thursday, November 19, 4 pm UC Berkeley, 142 Dwinelle Hall Moderator: Deniz Göktürk (German and Film Studies) Focusing on walls on a global scale, internet artists Christoph Wachter and Mathias Jud will talk … Continue reading
Multikultureller Arbeitsmarkt?
Spiegel Online: Ausländerkinder in Deutschland. Bestens gebildet – trotzdem arbeitslos
Debatte um Minarette in der Schweiz
Spiegel Online: Schweizer Volksabstimmung: Rechte Christen starten Kreuzzug gegen Minarette
Translingual Translation and Spatial Poetics: The Naked Eye in German, English and French
Prof. Bernard Banoun, who translates Yoko Tawada‘s German work into French, will meet with us to discuss his experience translating these multilingual, multi-layered texts. Thursday, October 29, 3-5pm UC Berkeley, Dwinelle Hall, Floor E, Room 5303 Banoun is Professor of German … Continue reading
Post-War Black Children in Germany
Spiegel: The Difficult Identities of Post-War Black Children of GIs
Debate about Sarrazin’s comments about Immigrants
Thilo Sarrazin’s controversial comments about Turkish Immigrants have led to a broader discussion about immigration and integration in Germany. Spiegel Online: Sarrazins türkenfeindliche Tiraden lösen Entsetzen aus Spiegel Online: Türken empören sich über Sarrazin Zeit: Zentralrat sieht Sarrazin in der … Continue reading
Herta Müller wins Nobel Prize for Literature
Zeit: Herta Müller bekommt den Literaturnobelpreis Spiegel: Patriot of an Estranged Homeland Spiegel: Nobelpreis für das Drama ihres Lebens
Where Europe Continues… Translingual Writers & the Cosmopolitan Imagination
Readings and a Roundtable with Yoko Tawada and Zafer Senocak moderated by Deniz Göktürk (UC Berkeley) Discussant: Homi K. Bhabha (Harvard University) Friday | 18 April 2008 | 4-6 pm Townsend Center for the Humanities, Geballe Room
