Category: Fall 2018

The Gerhart-Hauptmann Schule was already empty when police arrived to clear the building on January 11, 2018. A small crowd gathered and marched to commemorate the closing of Refugee Strike House. The ten remaining migrants had left the night before.

Berlin’s unique 20th century history makes it a fascinating microcosm of shifting public policy approaches and new definitions of cultural consumption occurring worldwide.

In oral societies, one method for characterization requires the recitation of deeds. Whether by chronicling family histories before introducing an individual, listing the ships of a fleet before acknowledging an army, or recounting heroic deeds before speaking to a superior figure, identities were constructed through oral narration.

The resurgence of tuberculosis illuminated the often-disregarded ideology that brute conditions of poverty like poor housing and diet, can proliferate disease.

Frida Kahlo’s image has morphed into a subdued, feminized, and whitened ideal of feminism for mass consumption that stands in direct opposition to both her life and artistic endeavors.  

Iran has increasingly turned to cyberspace as a realm to address diplomatic goals and tensions. This leveling of the playing field through Iran’s eager adoption of cyber tactics poses a global threat to telecommunications, financial institutions, and energy infrastructure.

In recent years, media has undergone huge transformations in regards to development, audience, trust, and technology. While this has opened the door for young people to capitalize in creative ways on the new digital landscape, it has also disrupted the habitual flow of news and has caused a major drop in the revenue streams of established outlets.

Theater, as an art form, is seldom considered to be a major social or political force today. Berlin’s Maxim Gorki Theater, however, is trying to change that. The purpose of this study was to conduct a close investigation of the Gorki’s efforts to renegotiate the dynamic relationship between art and the political.

During the 1970s, welfare fraud had become a vastly overstated issue, and Reagan’s 1976 campaign strategy reflected the rise of a new narrative of poverty. Strongly influenced by image and racialized discourse surrounding welfare, the success of the “welfare queen” epitomized this new narrative.

The relationship between science fiction and women has historically been a tenuous one. Women are often tokenized, sexualized, or outright excluded in sci-fi texts, and they have at times faced violent harassment when striving for greater visibility in so-called ‘geek’ culture.