Events
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Sep 10“White Film: Tonality and Tone in Soviet Cinema,” a lecture by Maria Belodubrovskaya
This lecture is co-sponsored by the Alice D. Mortenson/Petrovich Distinguished Chair in Russian History and Department of Communication Arts Film Colloquium. About the Lecture: When Soviet films were shown in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s, reviewers often complained about their slow tempo and propagandistic appeals but praised their acting and cinematography. Although since 1930 …
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Sep 17
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Sep 17“A Voice in the Wilderness: The Vita Nova Publishing House and Its Anti-Nazi Program,” a lecture by Michael Wachtel
Co-sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies, the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+, and the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies. About the lecture: The talk is based on approximately 800 pages of unpublished correspondence between the Jewish philosopher and musician Evsei Davidovich Shor and the Protestant writer and publisher Rudolf Roessler. After leaving …
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Sep 24“Witold Gombrowicz’s Theatrophobia: The Playwright and His Double,” a lecture by Allen Kuharski
This lecture is co-sponsored by the Lapinski Family Fund and the Polish Heritage Club of Madison. About the Lecture: Witold Gombrowicz is Poland’s most produced playwright around the world—and more performed abroad than in Poland itself. His first play Ivona, Princess of Burgundia is the most-produced Polish play of all time outside of Poland. Gombrowicz’s theater leads a …
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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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