Recordings of Past Events

Authors in Conversation: Emma Braslavsky and Agnieszka Pilat

Discussion with two artists who have thought about the future of humanity and how Man and Machine will coexist. March 31, 2022.

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All That We Have Is a Voice

Writers from Ukraine Speaking to Writers in Boston, on zoom and in person at the Goethe-Institut Boston, March 24, 2022.

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What Makes A Monument?

Taking a closer look at the process behind conceptualizing and building new monuments with perspectives from Germany and the US. How democratic is the process? March 22, 2022

Authors in Conversation: Maike Wetzel & Adrian Figueroa, Proll!

Discussion with director Adrian Figueroa and screenwriter Maike Wetzel about their short film Proll!, which won the German Short Film Award 2021. February 3,2022.

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Kati Marton "The Chancellor"

Acclaimed biographer Kati Marton in conversation with Sabine von Mering, Director of the Center for German and European Studies, Brandeis University on Marton’s new biography, The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel on December 7, 2021.

In Conversation with composer Jörg Widmann

Andris Nelsons conducts the American premiere of Jörg Widmann’s Towards Paradise (Labyrinth VI) for trumpet and orchestra featuring Håkan Hardenberger, trumpet and the Boston Symphony Orchestra on November 18-20, 2021 at Symphony Hall, Boston MA.

Authors in Conversation: Rachael Cerrotti and Julie Lindahl

Two storytellers turn to their own family’s history to explore how their grandparents survived the Nazi Regime. Online Conversation, October 25, 2021.
 

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Authors in Conversation: Ulla Lenze and Marshall Yarbrough

German author Ulla Lenze and her translator, Marshall Yarbrough about Lenze's first publication in English, The Radio Operator.
Online conversation, October 21, 2021

Ulla Lenze©Julien Menand/Marshall Yarbrough (c) Sal Robinson Recording Website

Authors in Conversation: Sharon Dodua Otoo and Jon Cho-Polizzi

Bachmann-prize winning author Sharon Dodua Otoo and translator Jon Cho-Polizzi about Otoo’s debut novel Ada's Realm.
Online conversation, October 19, 2021
 

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The State of the Arts: Movie Theatres

Mark Anastasio, Programmer at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, and Wiebke and Johannes Thomsen, owners of Kino Lodderbast in Hannover, Germany, in conversation about cinemas during the pandemic. May 5th, 2021

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Authors in Conversation: Anja Kampmann & Amy Brady

EarthDay@Goethe presents: "High as the Waters Rise" by Anja Kampmann and "Climate Fiction" by Amy Brady.
Online Conversation, April 22, 2021.

Website Amy Brady©privat/Anja Kampmann©Juliane Henrich
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Together Apart

A new choreography by the Boston Dance Theater conceived for video

©BDT Commissioned by the Goethe-Institut Boston, ​Boston Dance Theater creates a new choreography which translates themes of division, polarization, reunification and coming together into the language of contemporary dance. The work plays hommage to three decades of German reunification and at the same time reflects the current state of American society. The pandemic lends the theme additional timeliness. 
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Q&A with Burhan Qurbani

Conversation with the director of Berlin Alexanderplatz, Burhan Qurbani  and Roy Grundmann, Professor of Film at Boston University.

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Discussing Fassbinder's "Berlin Alexanderplatz"

Fassbinder experts Peter Jealvich and Johannes Binotto examine Fassbinder's 1980 miniseries.

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Film and Discussion : Masel Tov Cocktail

Discussion with filmmaker Arkadij Khaet

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Radical Diversity: Boston

Online discussion with Max Czollek, Mohamed Amjahid, Sultan Doughan and Rachael Cerrotti, December 9, 2020.

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Escape from America [Total Recall]

A collaborative, experimental live stream performance featuring Olivia Block, DeForrest Brown Jr, Forbes Graham, Bonnie Jones, and Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma from Mouse on Mars.
November 14, 2020

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Listening to History: Sound, Space and Remembrance

A conversation between Louis Chude-Sokei and Emeka Ogboh
October 22, 2020
Presented as part of Shaping the Past.

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Listening to History: Revisiting Memory through Soundscape Compositions

A conversation between Yvette Janine Jackson and Jacek Smolicki
October 28, 2020
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30 Years of German Unity: Sabine Rennefanz and John Goetz

Online Conversation, October 21, 2020

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Queer Literature: Olivia Wenzel and Sarah Schulman

Online Conversation, September 30, 2020.

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QUEER LITERATURE: JAYRÔME ROBINET AND KENNY FRIES

Online Conversation, September 24, 2020.

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Authors in Conversation: Sheri Hagen and Ariana Cohen Halberstam

Online conversation, September 17, 2020.

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Authors in Conversation: Cornelia Funke and Kerstin Zilm

Online Conversation, September 3, 2020, organized by Goethe-Institut Boston and CGES online.

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Authors in Conversation: Nora Krug and Katja Petrowskaja

Online conversation, August 13, 2020.

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Authors in Conversation: Esther Dischereit and Elizabeth Bradfield

Online conversation,  July 16, 2020.

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Form & Landscape: Bauhaus in New England

Online Webinar organized by the Goethe-Institut Boston, June 25, 2020.

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Art in Times of Uprisings

Online conversation, June 18, 2020.

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Authors in Conversation: Theresia Enzensberger and Elizabeth Otto

Online conversation, June 11, 2020, organized by Goethe-Institut Boston and CGES online.

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