What role did the arts play during the Cold War? Elizabeth Holt (Bard College) and Yang-Wen Zheng (University of Manchester) will discuss Art, Literature and Propaganda at their table, from bourgeois, “high culture”...
At the table Social Movements and Cultural Icons, hosted by Beata Hock (Universität Leipzig) and James Mark (University of Exeter), we will consider the extent to which the socialist world was part of...
How much was today’s world order shaped by the Cold War era and its end? What events represent important caesurae of the East-West conflict besides the year 1989, for instance...
The c/o Gallery situated in the Amerika Haus Berlin will host an exhibition of Rudi Meisel’s photographs titled “Rudi Meisel . Compatriots 1977 – 1987“. Starting in 1971, Meisel worked...
After protests Boston’s “Museum of Fine Arts” had to cancel their “Kimono Wednesdays”. As a part of their exhibition featuring Monet’s “La Japonaise”, visitors have their photographs taken in front...
Das Blog CONTEMPORARY AND, kurz C&, ist eine dynamische Plattform für den Austausch von Informationen, Ideen und Diskursen zur zeitgenössischen Kunstpraxis aus afrikanischen Perspektiven. Initiiert wurde das Blog vom Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, gefördert...
The discussion of our table hosts Dr. des. Verena Rodatus (Ethnological Museum Berlin) and Prof. Dr. Avinoam Shalem (Columbia University) will focus on Object Biographies and Theory of Things. In...
It appears that Germany’s fascination with Karl May and the American West has led to the country’s museums getting caught up in a controversy over the ownership and display of...
Das WeberWorldCafé-Blog begleitet und dokumentiert die verschiedenen WeberWorldCafés und schafft so neben dem analogen Diskussionsraum während der Veranstaltungen einen zusätzlichen digitalen Raum für einen offenen Dialog. Ziel der WeberWorldCafés ist es, transregionale Themen aus möglichst vielen Perspektiven zu betrachten und wissenschaftliche Impulse aus verschiedenen Regionen zusammenzuführen.
The WeberWorldCafé blog links the digital possibilities of communication with the actual event of the WeberWorldCafés and creates an additional, digital space for open dialog. The aim of the WeberWorldCafé events is to discuss the transregional topics with manifold perspectives and thus bring together different academic impulses from various world regions.
