Events

Focusing on the kiosks that rapidly appeared along the Albanian coast in the 1990s and early 2000s, the seminar examines these structures not merely as marginal or temporary architectural objects, but as socially embedded environments.

We are all familiar with the story of political transformation, serial regime change and the remaking of East Central Europe in 1989, with repercussions far beyond the region. The events of that year saw at once the acceleration of history and the supposed end of it, depending on one's perspective. This seminar seeks to revisit how participants at the time -…

We often think of cinema’s politics as matters of subject, style, distribution, or reception. This talk, however, locates film’s politics in its raw materials—in substances like silver, gelatin, and cotton, on which cinema’s play of shadow and light depends. It does so through the case of Nazi Germany, examining the Agfa film company’s embrace of fascist…