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Tabu, Kultur, Amazon @ Kulturtransfer Migrationshintergrund

Wie fast alles, was uns vertraut ist, einen Migrationshintergrund hat

Das Wort „Tabu“, das bei Sigmund Freud Prominenz erhalten sollte und nicht mehr aus unserem Alltagswortschatz wegzudenken ist, brachte James Cook aus der Südsee mit. „Amok” bezeichnete die legendäre militärische Kampfeswut malayischer Elitekämpfer. Das Hakenkreuz – ein deutsches Fanal des Hasses – geht auf ein indisches Symbol des Glücks zurück, die

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unitobler

Why my Humanities Library will never be a Total Library–praise be!

Until the beginning of the 1990s, the humanities department at the University of Bern (Switzerland) lived a kind of cellular life, fragmented into the smallest possible units, a diaspora existence in scattered houses. With the construction of the Unitobler in 1993, the humanities were given a center that would make

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thor.news highlights outreach initiatives and events at the  Faculty of Humanities at the University of Bern and beyond

Film “Tarantism Revisited” wins Golden Dove Prize

At the 67th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, in the category German Competition Documentary Film, the ‘Golden Dove Long Film’ went to “Tarantism Revisited” (Germany, Switzerland) by Anja Dreschke and Michaela Schäuble. The directors investigate the phenomenon of “tarantism”, which made numerous women in southern Italy in the 1950s dance uncontrollably, supposedly from the bite of a poisonous spider.

Arctic Voices

From 27. September until 22. October, the film and event series “Arctic Voices. Indigenous perspectives on pasts, presents and futures” opens a platform for Indigenous voices and stories from Sápmi and the Arctic regions of Northern Europe, Kalaallit Nunaat / Greenland, Turtle Island / North America, Canada, Alaska and Russia in Bern.

Public lecture with Prof. Dr. Nina Sun Eidsheim

“Eat this song”. If music and sound are “thick events” that necessarily exceed our ability to grasp them fully, what resources do we have to make (at least) partial sense of them? This public lecture and workshop are part of the series Interdisciplinary Lectures and Colloquia on Key Concepts in the Humanities and Social Sciences of the doctoral program Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies.

Friedrich Dürrenmatt Gastprofessur: Marlene Streeruwitz

Die österreichische Schriftstellerin Marlene Streeruwitz lehrt im Herbstsemester 2024 an der Universität Bern. Im Rahmen der „Friedrich Dürrenmatt Gastprofessur für Weltliteratur“ gibt sie ein wöchentliches Seminar mit dem Titel “Literatur. Das ist die Welt.”. Darin geht es um die Frage, welche Rolle das Literarische in unserer Wirklichkeit spielt.  

New Publication: Imaginary Ecologies

PhD candidate Martin Tscholl publishes his art (2024). Tscholl’s photography allows us to recognise the silent fragments of nature as being different from us, but also as originating from the same ontological ground. The many mystical objects in this book seem like they could come to life at any moment, giving us a warm sense of connection.

Neue Buchpublikation: Sterben gestalten

Die Doktorand:innen der Phil.-hist. Fakultät Bitten Stetter und Tina Braun beschäftigen sich in ihrem neusten Buch (2024) mit dem Thema: Sterben Gestalten– Möglichkeitsräume am Lebensende. Dabei geht es um die Fragen: Wer gestaltet unser Sterben: was, wie, für wen und aus welcher Position und Motivation heraus?

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