http://www.einsteinforum.de/ Latest News from Einstein Forum de http://www.einsteinforum.de/fileadmin/tt_news_article.gif http://www.einsteinforum.de/ Latest News from Einstein Forum TYPO3 - get.content.right http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Wed, 26 Jun 2013 19:00:00 +0200 http://www.einsteinforum.de/index.php?id=1319&L=1 Dr. Helmut Böttiger, Literaturkritiker und Autor, Berlin. Gesprächsleitung: Dr. Markus... Dr. Helmut Böttiger,
Literaturkritiker und Autor, Berlin.

Gesprächsleitung: Dr. Markus Messling, Potsdam. ]]> Wed, 26 Jun 2013 19:00:00 +0200 http://www.einsteinforum.de/index.php?id=1312&L=1 Passions in Cultures: Hans Dieter Huber, Professor für Kunstgeschichte der Gegenwart,... Passions in Cultures:
Hans Dieter Huber,
Professor für Kunstgeschichte der Gegenwart, Ästhetik und Kunsttheorie, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart.

Gesprächsleitung: Dr. Rüdiger Zill, Potsdam. ]]> Thu, 20 Jun 2013 19:00:00 +0200 http://www.einsteinforum.de/index.php?id=1316&L=1 Peter Beinart, Associate Professor of Journalism and Political Science, City University of New... Peter Beinart,
Associate Professor of Journalism and Political Science, City University of New York.

Gesprächsleitung: Prof. Dr. Susan Neiman, Potsdam.
Ort: Jüdisches Museum Berlin, Lindenstraße 9–14, Berlin-Kreuzberg.
In Kooperation mit der Stiftung Jüdisches Museum Berlin und dem Verlag C.H. Beck ]]> Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:00:00 +0200 http://www.einsteinforum.de/index.php?id=1317&L=1 Frans de Waal, C. H. Candler Professor of Psychology and Director, Living Links Center, ... Frans de Waal,
C. H. Candler Professor of Psychology and Director, Living Links Center,
Emory University, Atlanta.

Ort: Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstraße 43, Berlin-Mitte.
Eine Gemeinschaftsveranstaltung mit dem Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin. ]]> Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:00:00 +0200 http://www.einsteinforum.de/index.php?id=1318&L=1 Donnerstag, 13. – Samstag, 15. Juni Internationale Tagung Konzeption: Susan Neiman,... Internationale Tagung

Konzeption: Susan Neiman, Potsdam
Teilnehmer: Breyten Breytenbach, Gorée; Lorraine Daston, Berlin; Robert H. Frank, Ithaca; Ute Frevert, Berlin; Mischa Gabowitsch, Potsdam; Konstanty Gebert, Warschau; Stephen Holmes, New York; Eva Illouz, Jerusalem; T.J. Jackson Lears, New Brunswick; James Marentette, Kitchener; Christian Scholz, Saarbrücken; Jonathan Shay, Boston; Frans de Waal, Atlanta

Der Behauptung, Eigeninteresse sei die ultimative Motivation menschlichen Verhaltens, ist vielfach widersprochen worden: innerhalb der Moralphilosophie und der politischen Theorie ebenso wie durch empirische Befunde der Psychologie, der Primatenforschung, der Ökonomie und der Neurobiologie. Warum aber dominiert das Modell Eigeninteresse nach wie vor nicht nur die akademischen, sondern auch die medialen und alltäglichen Diskurse? Wie hat sich das Verständnis menschlicher Motivationen seit dem 19. Jahrhundert verändert? Ist das Modell Eigennutz nicht selbst ein historisch kontingentes Produkt kultureller Kräfte? Wie kann man die Tyrannei dieses Modells erschüttern und stattdessen einen nicht-reduktionistischen Diskurs der Moral stärken? ]]> Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:00:00 +0200 http://www.einsteinforum.de/index.php?id=1315&L=1 Omri Boehm, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, New School for Social Research, New York. ... Omri Boehm,
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, New School for Social Research, New York.

Gesprächsleitung: Prof. Dr. Susan Neiman, Potsdam. ]]> Tue, 04 Jun 2013 19:00:00 +0200 http://www.einsteinforum.de/index.php?id=1314&L=1 Dr. Diana Pinto, Historikerin und Autorin, Paris.          Gesprächsleitung: Prof. Dr.... Dr. Diana Pinto,
Historikerin und Autorin, Paris.
        
Gesprächsleitung: Prof. Dr. Susan Neiman, Potsdam.
Ort: Jüdisches Museum Berlin, Lindenstraße 9–14, Berlin-Kreuzberg.
In Kooperation mit der Stiftung Jüdisches Museum Berlin und dem Suhrkamp Verlag ]]> Wed, 29 May 2013 19:00:00 +0200 http://www.einsteinforum.de/index.php?id=1313&L=1 Christoph König, Professor für Literaturwissenschaften, Universität Osnabrück. ... Christoph König,
Professor für Literaturwissenschaften, Universität Osnabrück.

Gesprächsleitung: Prof. Dr. Lothar Müller, Berlin ]]> Wed, 22 May 2013 19:00:00 +0200 http://www.einsteinforum.de/index.php?id=39&L=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=636&cHash=e7c5c4fd8113cf6d297bded937ad47be Dr. On Barak Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University ... Dr. On Barak
Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University

Moderator: Dr Sonja Hegasy, Berlin

Gradually during the last decade, and much more rapidly since 2011, the loci, praxis, and stakes of history-writing in the Middle East have been shifting. These shifts are a result of the convergence of technological innovations (such as catalogue computerization, digitalization of documents, and web-based archiving), the penetration of new market logics into state-owned institutions, and the increasing privatization of resource management and keeping, and finally, a wave of political protest that swept through the region, opening up previously unimaginable political futures which entailed a radical revision of the past.
The talk maps the new terrain of historiography in Egypt and Israel. Each of these neighboring countries reveals different aspects in the emergence of a new attitude to the past: Egypt was the epicenter of the so-called Arab Spring, focused on regime change. In Israel, the summer of discontent in 2011 sought to tackle a power shift from the shrinking welfare state to neo-liberal private ownership. The talk examines the appearance of new actors, such as the historian/activist, the whistleblower from within the archive; direct attacks against, and subtler subversions of the conventional state archive – be they from inside the archive, or in external arenas such as the court system; and finally, the development of alternative archives and new forms of documentation which seek to make the past available to the public in new ways, or alternatively, seeking to make the same old past available to new publics.

On Barak studied law and Islamic Studies in Jerusalem and Leiden. He obtained his PhD at New York University and was a post-doctoral fellow at the Princeton University Society of Fellows and lecturer in Princeton's History Department. In addition to scholarly articles, he has also published poetry, including translations of Arabic poets. His book On Time: Technology and Temporality in Modern Egypt is forthcoming from California University Press.

Sonja Hegasy is deputy director of the Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin.

This event will be in English. It is free and open to all without registration.

Thursday, May 16, 2013, 7 pm

]]> Thu, 16 May 2013 19:00:00 +0200 http://www.einsteinforum.de/index.php?id=39&L=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=635&cHash=6bc91553919cc84ff8fd1847b2290c41 Workshop at the Einstein Forum, Potsdam and the Einstein House, Caputh with Daniel Cohn-Bendit,...
Workshop at the Einstein Forum, Potsdam
and the Einstein House, Caputh


with Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Frankfurt/Main, Michelle Engert, Munich, Michael Gray, Sainte Dode, Clinton Heylin, Somerset, Stephen Scobie, Victoria, Sean Wilentz, Princeton.
Music: Wenzel, Berlin

Since 1996, Bob Dylan has been nominated every year for the Nobel Prize in Literature, a nomination roundly seconded by increasing numbers of poets and professors. After President Obama recently presented him with the United States’ highest honor, many have hoped the Swedish Academy would follow suit. There are dissenting voices among Dylan admirers, who hold his work to be sufficiently unique as to make a Nobel Prize otiose; others have argued that while Dylan may not need the Nobel Prize, the Nobel Prize needs Dylan. All this is reason enough to reflect on 50 years of ever-surprising work.

Program and abstracts (English/German)

Monday, May 13, 2013, 13:00-22:00

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