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Myanmar and the Politics of Humanitarianism: Diaspora, Identity, and Advocacy

This panel discussion will explore the transnational nature of humanitarian aid in Myanmar two years after a coup ushered in military rule there, including challenges, dilemmas, and everyday politics of aid and advocacy in Myanmar, including among a growing diaspora of Burmese activists abroad.

Concert: A Spectrum of Viennese Song, 1900-1938

Performed by Stephanie Weiss (mezzo-soprano) and Christina Wright-Ivanova (piano), as part of the Vienna, 1890-1938: Capital of Tradition, Innovation, Promise, and Peril symposium.

Vienna, 1890 – 1938: Capital of Tradition, Innovation, Promise, and Peril

In the first decades of the twentieth-century Vienna was a locus for cultural and intellectual innovation, as well as for radical politics of left and right. This symposium brings together a group of leading interdisciplinary scholars to explore the interactions of art, music, and cultural politics in the decades preceding the rise of National Socialism and […]

Symposium in Memory of Robert Deam Tobin: Homosexuality and Visuality in German Modernity

Robert Deam Tobin was the inaugural Henry J. Leir Professor of Language, Literature, and Culture and a Strassler Center contributing faculty member. A remarkable teacher and scholar, he was an expert in the fields of gay and lesbian studies, queer theory, gender studies, human rights, and German and European cultural studies. A symposium examining sexuality, […]

The City Without Jews: Film Screening with Live Music

Set in the Vienna-like city of Utopia, H. K. Breslauer’s 1924 silent film “The City Without Jews (Die Stadt ohne Juden),” based on Hugo Bettauer’s 1922 satirical novel, follows the political and personal consequences of an anti-Semitic law expelling the city’s Jews. The film’s stinging critique of the politics of anti-Semitism led to its banning by the Nazis.  Featuring […]