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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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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

Public Lecture: Olivier van Beemen

“Hey, weren’t they the good guys? – A critical look into conservation in Africa” Interested parties are invited to join the public lecture by investigative journalist Olivier van Beemen on 12 May,  at the Walter Benjamin Kolleg. The event is co-organized by the WBKolleg, THoR, SAKS and Initiative Afrique. Date:   12.05.2025, 6.15pm–7.45pm Place:  Unitobler, Walter Benjamin Kolleg, Muesmattstr. 45

GSAH I PhD Workshop with Gaea Schoeters

“Women belong in the kitchen” Turning back the clock – is the worldwide shift to the right a backlash on feminism? – 12. May, 10am-1pm at Mittelstrasse 43, room 216. Register for the workshop by April 30 to melanie.sampayo@unibe.ch. Picture: © Marijn Achten

Panel Discussion: Gender Stereotypes in Opera

On 9. April 2025 Dürrenmatt guest professor and librettist Gaea Schoeters and composer Annelies Van Parys discuss the topic as part of the series MUSIC THEATRE – POWER – SOCIETY. At 18:30, Auditorium, Bibliothek Münstergasse, Bern. Picture: Edyta Dufaj

Young Scholars 2025 prize goes to Dr. Lucy Benjamin

“Repair at work”: On 31 March, the Walter Benjamin Kolleg will award the ‘Young Scholars 2025’ prize to Dr Lucy Benjamin for her outstanding interdisciplinary research and its communication to a broad audience. This event will bring together different ‘repair’ practitioners to discuss the challenges, limits, and possibilities of repairing the world.

Paranatur – Ausstellung NATÜRLICH im Kunstmuseum Olten

Andrina Jörg ist mit ihrem Projekt Paranatur an der partizipativen Ausstellung NATÜRLICH beteiligt. Im Ausstellungsformat «Schatzkammer Sammlung» sind Gäste aus der Oltner Bevölkerung und Menschen mit persönlichem Bezug zur Stadt eingeladen, gemeinsam mit den Kuratorinnen des Museums eigene Sammlungspräsentationen zu entwickeln. Die Ausstellung im Kunstmuseum Olten dauert noch bis zum 6. April 2025.