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Zeitgeister
This side of populism

In global conversations between Budapest, Cairo, Brasilia, Nairobi, Moscow, Salzburg and Zurich we debate common narratives of populists in different countries: Has the “elite” really lost contact with the “people”? What does it really mean to take people’s fears seriously? What is hidden behind the phrase “You still have to be allowed to say that”?

Photo (Detail): © Getty Images, Logo: Tobias Schrank

Rethinking power relations
Latitude

The Goethe-Institut invites experts and creatives worldwide to exchange ideas on colonial power relations, their consequences and, above all, how to dismantle them: in discourses, interviews, opinion articles and art projects. For a decolonized and non-racial world.

Martina Berg/picture alliance/Shotshop (montage)

Egometer
Your position on copyright regulation

How should copyright law be regulated in line with the times? Use our egometer to pinpoint your position on this question and find out where in the world people think the way you do!

Germany and the worldWorldwide projects of the Goethe-Institut

Photo: Jakub Cervenka

From Berlin to Belgrade

Our population is constantly growing and thus presents us with plenty of challenges. How can we prepare and adapt in time?

Neighbour

What’s going on in the neighbouring country? Tom Kampman – journalist, expert on Germany and podcast producer – provides insights into German culture and society: from a Danish perspective and in Danish.

Contemporary And América Latina

Through the magazine Contemporary And (C&) América Latina, the Goethe-Institut and the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen engage with contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora in Afro-Latin America and the Caribbean.

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