Cultural Studies
Research on the cult film and its wider impact as a planetary linguistic event.
What do we lose if we lose snow? And how will we remember it?
On May 23, 2024, Germany’s Basic Law celebrates its seventy-fifth birthday. Spring 2024 fellow Johannes von Moltke takes this milestone anniversary as an opportunity to talk about contemporary challenges democracy is facing on both sides of the Atlantic. His focus is on the social and cultural prerequisites of democracy and the challenges posed by a…
How the New Right weaponizes culture on both sides of the Atlantic.
James Shapiro discusses his book-in-progress, “The Playbook: Theater, Democracy, and the Making of a Culture War.”
Tracing the rise and fall of the Depression-era Federal Theater.
David Treuer describes America’s “savage mind” in its past and present incarnations and aims to reframe its causes and effects—and, ultimately, to change it.
In this talk, David Treuer brings a more complete history of Native Americans, the American continent, and Americans themselves into focus.
Rankine examines questions regarding the perception of time to illustrate the concept of “The Mean-time” in art.
Margaret Atwood and Claudia Rankine discusse the literary possibilities of the essay genre.
The two scholars Glenn Loury and Joyce Nyairo will talk with the author and critic Thomas Chatterton Williams about topics such as racism, colonialism, state identity, and social movements.
Ariella Aïsha Azoulay questions the double disappearance of Jews from North Africa and the history of French colonization in Algeria.