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Please join us for a research workshop in the Department of German, in association with the Centre for Modern Literature and Culture at King’s College London, Monday 27 April, 18.00 – 20.00. Workshop Visualizing Fascisms Professor Geoff Eley, University of Michigan Professor Julia Adeney Thomas, University of Notre Dame This workshop addresses the cultural and political complexities of visualizing fascism in Japan, Germany, and elsewhere during the 1930s and 1940s. One central question concerns how best to relate a political formation to its aesthetic representations. Is there a single fascist aesthetic or are there many? How do we understand its distinctive features? Does the aesthetic change over time under a fascist regime? Do different fascist states produce differing aesthetics? Is it possible, or even fruitful, to decenter Europe in discussions of fascism? On the one hand, attention must be paid to the strategies adopted and deployed by fascist states themselves to propagate their politics, including especially expansionism and war, and to make them meaningful. On the other hand, state representations can always be received differently and even "subverted" when seen by the "wrong" people, the unintended viewer, or those with differing perspectives, politically, culturally, or from a different time. The workshop will explore the contingent relationship between any particular political or ethical stance and any particular aesthetic style. Monday April 27 King’s College, London, Strand Campus Room K0.16 18.00 - 20.00 ALL WELCOME Erica Carter, Professor of German and Film Head of Department of German King’s College, London Room VWB 5.21 Virginia Woolf Building 22 Kingsway London WC2B 6NR Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2128 From: JISCmail German Studies List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Schofield, Benedict Sent: 19 March 2015 18:56 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: King's German Research Seminar: After the Stasi Please join us for our next research seminar in German Studies at King’s College London on Wednesday 25th March! Wednesday 25th March: 12.30-2pm (Virginia Woolf Building, Room 6.06) After the Stasi Dr Annie Ring, University of Cambridge Annie Ring will present a chapter from her book After the Stasi, which offers an answer to the question: why did so many East Germans agree to collaborate with the Stasi? It does so by introducing an archetypal character in literary fiction and life writing by East German authors publishing after German unification. This is a character not self-defined and sovereign, but instead subjected to the power of others, in ways that both allow and complicate the collaborations that she or he carries out. Reading works by GDR-born writers who encountered the Stasi as collaborators or victims alongside documents from the Stasi’s archives, works of literary modernism from other eras and places and relevant cultural theories of the self, the book makes the case for the continuing importance of the concerns raised by the writing of German unification – importance not only for tracking the history of Stasi collaboration, but also for considering its legacy in capitalism. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/german/eventrecords/2014-15/researchsem8.aspx ----- Dr Benedict Schofield Senior Lecturer in German, King's College London Follow me on Twitter @haben_und_soll