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Oct 5Afropean: Black People and Blackness in Europe
Department of African American Studies Event Page
Panelists and Moderators Michelle Moyd is Red Cedar Distinguished Associate Professor of History at MSU. Her book,Violent Intermediaries: African Soldiers, Conquest, and Everyday Colonialism in German East Africa, was published by Ohio University Press in 2014. Her peer-reviewed articles have appeared in Radical History Review, International Labor and Working Class History, and Slavery and Abolition. She is currently at …
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Oct 8Hilldale Lecture: Defining Enlightenment: Kant, Mendelssohn, Arendt
What is Enlightenment? In 1783 Berlin monthly Berlinische Monatsschrift asked its readers to submit answers to this question, and both Immanuel Kant and Moses Mendelssohn sent essays to the journal. Their submissions, both published in 1784, offered very different responses. In 1933, shortly after Hitler’s rise to power, Hannah Arendt also reflected on Enlightenment. She would implicitly refer to Kant …
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Oct 12Catastrophic Belatedness (Celan, Darwish, Derrida)
Declarations on the fate of poetry after mass violence—enshrined most notably in Theodor Adorno’s indictment of “poetry after Auschwitz”—have tended to stress poetry’s impotence in the face of representing past destruction. Arriving too late to catastrophe constitutes the primordial belatedness of any poetics of witness. But what happens when we shift the locus of poetry from …
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Oct 15Maxi Obexer, Neil Blackadder and students: Scenic Reading of the Daughters of the Orestia
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Oct 16Casting Weimar: Selection, Surplus, and the Film Actor
This presentation tracks modern discourses of human selection as they converged in discussions of film acting in Weimar Germany. In the early years of narrative cinema and beyond, the question of how to select actors for films—the question of casting, in other words—preoccupied filmmakers, actors, critics, and audiences. I trace this question to features of …
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Nov 18From Near Obscurity to Iconic Works: Bach’s Cello Suites
A Focus on the Humanities Lecture and Performance with Edward Klorman with Matthew Zalkind The six suites for unaccompanied cello by Johann Sebastian Bach—once dismissed as mere curiosities—are now revered as iconic works. They are performed worldwide by cellists of all ages, and they are moreover prominently used in pop culture such as film and television as …
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