Arts & Humanities The Home Front: Hardly a Refuge from War What happens on the home front during times of war? Is the home really a refuge, a space that is […]
Politics & Society Unbuilding Walls: Interview with Daniel Libeskind Before the fall of the Berlin wall, Daniel Libeskind already envisioned its end in his design for the Jewish Museum. Now, he talks about ideology, the memory of history, and the future of architecture in Berlin.
Arts & Humanities “Tatort” And the Politics of Migration on German Prime Time TV The public broadcaster NDR recently announced the casting of Florence Kasumba as the first Black female investigator in the popular crime series Tatort. Is media scholars’ ongoing criticism of the lack of diversity on German TV screens finally becoming obsolete?
Arts & Humanities The Proletarian Dream and the Resurgence of Political Emotions The proletarian dream, emerging out of late nineteenth and early twentieth century German culture, offers an important historical perspective on the powerful but little understood role of emotions in politics and social movements today.