It deals with alterity and German identity politics and investigates the public representation of minorities. The lecture series will be sponsored by the Department of Germanic Studies, the Art History Division of the Department of Art and Art History, the Department of Anthropology, the Department of American Studies, the Department of History, the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, the Center for the Study of Modernism and the German Academic Exchange Service. It is organized by Barbara Wolbert. Annette Brauerhoch is film scholar and co-editor of Europe's only feminist filmtheoretical journal Frauen und Film. It deals with concepts of integration and with German ideas on a multicultural society.
Special attention is given to the perspective of immigrants, ethnic communities and organizations.
The lecture series brings guest speakers from American and European Universities to the UT Austin. It is sponsored by the Department of Germanic Studies, the Department of Anthropology, the Center of Middle Eastern Studies and the German Academic Exchange Service. The 'Right to Culture' Debate.