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Dear colleagues and friends, 

This week we ask you for help to fill two positions for student assistants, announce the publication of a special issue edited by members of the KFG and present a call for papers for a conference in Berlin. Further, we have some recommendations for cultural leisure activities. Enjoy!

Call for Student Assistants in the KFG

We are looking for two student assistants (SHK/WHK) to support the KFG’s coordination team in terms of both research and administration, starting 1. April 2020. The positions are for 15h/week each. Please spread our call!

CfP: Conference on the History of Concepts

The 23rd International Conference on the History of Concepts brings together scholars from all disciplines interested in conceptual history. It offers a platform for interdisciplinary exchange on the problems and practice of the history of concepts, and fosters the international network of conceptual historians. The motto of the 2020 conference “Global Modernity. Emotions, Temporalities and Concepts” takes up two prominent movements within conceptual history: its globalisation and its increasing interest in temporalities and brings them into conversation with the history of emotions.

17-19 September 2020, Freie Universität Berlin
Deadline: 31 March 2020
Organised by the History of Concepts Group; Research area “Global History” of Freie Universität Berlin; Center for the History of Emotions, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin

Cinema: Parasite by Bong Joon-Ho

The Luru Cinema currently shows the highly acknowledged and awarded movie PARASITE by Bong Joon-Ho (SK, 2019). This pitch-black movie shows the entanglement of the Park Family, a picture of aspirational wealth, and the Kim Family – street smart but not much else. The Kim children expediently install themselves as tutor and art therapist, to the Parks. Soon a symbiotic relationship forms between the two families. But what follows next threatens to destroy the fragile ecosystem between them.

Luru Cinema (Spinnerei)
The movie is shown from today (22 January) to 28 January in South Korean with German subtitles.

Exhibition: Conscious Inability – the Gabriele Stötzer Archive #3

Conscious Inability (Bewusstes Unvermögen)– the Gabriele Stötzer Archive, shown at the gfzk (gallery for contemporary art) is an exhibition, research and mediation project in three parts. The walk-in archive presents Stötzer’s artistic practice in the context of the GDR in the 1980s, and invites visitors to take part in an active discussion. The archive shows a changing selection of Stötzer’s artworks in conjunction with documentary material collected by the artist herself, positioning her practice, mostly of a collective nature, within a body of work created by female artist groups and protagonists from Erfurt’s subcultural scene in the social context of the late GDR.

The exhibition is open until 15 March 2020 and in cooperation with the Leibniz Institute for History and Culture of East Europe (GWZO). Tip: Free admission on Wednesdays!