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Advent Calendar 2018

Our Advent Calendar offers new cultural titbits every day. It's worth checking out: great prizes will be raffled off. The main prize is a German course.

Design: ZKM Karlsruhe

How do we assert ourselves in the digital society? Which tools do we have to master, which skills do we have to learn? ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe and the Goethe-Institut provide answers.

Illustration: © Bernd Struckmeyer

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How political should artists be today?

Contemporary art in Europe is socially relevant. But how does it shield itself from political appropriation? Joseph Young, belit sağ and Via Lewandowsky discuss this question with you. Join the debate – here on goethe.de and on Facebook and Twitter!

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At the Threshold of a New Era

What ethical, social and political questions arise when automation and artificial intelligence revolutionize the world of work? In the dossier on Posthumanism the Goethe-Institut Canada takes a critical look at these issues.

Exchange Across Borders

From April to November 2018, the Goethe-Institut Montreal's VR:RV project invites VR producers, artists and journalists from Germany and Canada to participate in discourses and carry out joint projects.

Photo (detail): © Daniel Albanese

Riverside Drive Revisited

Over 50 years ago, Uwe Johnson began writing Anniversaries, a masterpiece of postwar German literature. On the occasion of the first complete English translation of the book, the Goethe-Institut USA takes you on a journey to discover Uwe Johnson's New York.

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Advent Calendar 2018

Digitally confident

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How political should artists be today?

Germany and the worldWorldwide projects of the Goethe-Institut

At the Threshold of a New Era

Exchange Across Borders

Riverside Drive Revisited

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Prinz Claus Fund Sustainability culturally conceived

Freiraum Tandem Carlisle-Thessaloniki Countering Isolation

An Interview with Johannes Ebert Strengthening civil society actors means social participation

Advent Calendar 2018

Digitally confident

Freepost How political should artists be today?

At the Threshold of a New Era

Exchange Across Borders

Riverside Drive Revisited

Freepost
How political should artists be today?