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The Importance of Being Funny
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Ludger HagedornMila Ganeva
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
This talk was part of a book project on the cultural history of Jewish artistic presence in German-speaking cabaret and film in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s. (During her fellowship at the IWM, Mila Ganeva was researching materials at the Austrian Exile Archive at ÖNB and the Österreichisches Kabarettarchiv in Graz.) In this presentation for the colloquium, she focused on a representative figure of cabaret and film, the German-Jewish comedian Siegfried Arno. Arno, who was labeled by contemporaries “our Buster Keaton”, was enormously successful on both the cabaret stage and the silver screen. In the 1920s, Arno and many of his colleagues were also at the centre of the so-called “cabaret wars”, as they were accused (and often sued) by the Centralverein of the German Citizens of the Jewish Faith of excessive use of Jewish jokes and fuelling antisemitism. The presentation reviewed Arno’s role in the very public debate about Jews in cabaret and film, and explored some of his actual performances in films as well as on the stage of the Kabarett der Komiker.
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
This talk was part of a book project on the cultural history of Jewish artistic presence in German-speaking cabaret and film in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s. (During her fellowship at the IWM, Mila Ganeva was researching materials at the Austrian Exile Archive at ÖNB and the Österreichisches Kabarettarchiv in Graz.) In this presentation for the colloquium, she focused on a representative figure of cabaret and film, the German-Jewish comedian Siegfried Arno. Arno, who was labeled by contemporaries “our Buster Keaton”, was enormously successful on both the cabaret stage and the silver screen. In the 1920s, Arno and many of his colleagues were also at the centre of the so-called “cabaret wars”, as they were accused (and often sued) by the Centralverein of the German Citizens of the Jewish Faith of excessive use of Jewish jokes and fuelling antisemitism. The presentation reviewed Arno’s role in the very public debate about Jews in cabaret and film, and explored some of his actual performances in films as well as on the stage of the Kabarett der Komiker.
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Ancient Philosophy and Modern Freedom in Times of Crisis
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Carlos FraenkelLudger Hagedorn
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Marx, Colonialism, and India
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Ranabir Samaddar
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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The EU Periphery and Revisionist Powers
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Dimitar BechevIvan Vejvoda
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
Starting with the annexation of Crimea in the spring of 2014, scholars and analysts have been debating the standoff between the West and competitors such as Russia, Erdogan’s Turkey, and lately China on Europe’s periphery. “The return of geopolitics” has become a standard phrase to describe the new moment in the international politics of Eastern and Southeast Europe. A contrast is drawn with the 2000s, the highmark of the European Union’s “transformative power” and NATO’s eastward expansion. But the top-down view highlighting the preferences and actions of big players, including core EU member states like Germany and France, Russia, Turkey etc. overlooks the critical role played by peripheral countries and their elites. Rather than being the object of great powers’ decisions, they manipulate rivalries in pursuit of political advantage. Though the domestic arena provides entry points for external actors’ influence it also empowers incumbent elites in the target countries. The talk drew on examples from Southeast Europe (the Western Balkans, Bulgaria, Romania, Greece) but drew parallels to the post-Soviet space.
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
Starting with the annexation of Crimea in the spring of 2014, scholars and analysts have been debating the standoff between the West and competitors such as Russia, Erdogan’s Turkey, and lately China on Europe’s periphery. “The return of geopolitics” has become a standard phrase to describe the new moment in the international politics of Eastern and Southeast Europe. A contrast is drawn with the 2000s, the highmark of the European Union’s “transformative power” and NATO’s eastward expansion. But the top-down view highlighting the preferences and actions of big players, including core EU member states like Germany and France, Russia, Turkey etc. overlooks the critical role played by peripheral countries and their elites. Rather than being the object of great powers’ decisions, they manipulate rivalries in pursuit of political advantage. Though the domestic arena provides entry points for external actors’ influence it also empowers incumbent elites in the target countries. The talk drew on examples from Southeast Europe (the Western Balkans, Bulgaria, Romania, Greece) but drew parallels to the post-Soviet space.
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Rule by Law and the Making of Ethno-Democracies
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Clemena AntonovaRajshree ChandraDimitry Kochenov
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Who Is in Putin’s Army? Talking to Russian Prisoners of War in Ukraine and What We Can Learn From It
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Clemena AntonovaKirill RogovPeter Ruzavin
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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The Remains of the Real
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Jan SowaLudger Hagedorn
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Tempering Power
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Adam SitzeLudger HagedornMartin Krygier
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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The “Migrant” in the Middle: How the Struggle for Decolonization and the Struggle against Fascism Are Linked
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Ayşe ÇağlarGregory Feldman
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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The Invention of Ukraine: How War Is Remaking Ukrainian Media
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Aleksander PalikotMariia Shynkarenko
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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