Prof. Dr. Deniz Göktürk: "Community beyond Fantasies of Closure" [EN]
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Research Factory B/ORDERS IN MOTION
01. Juli, 16:15 - 17:45 Uhr
Raum: GD 102
Prof. Dr. Deniz Göktürk (University of California, Berkeley, Department of German)
Research Factory-Vortrag: Community beyond Fantasies of Closure
In an age of fortified borders, detention regimes, and renewed calls for war in the name of “total security,” how might we rethink community beyond fantasies of closure? Drawing on Franz Kafka, Tadhg O’Sullivan, Eyal Weizman, Helmuth Plessner, and others, this lecture explores how communities are shaped not by seamless unity, but by distance, mediation, and partial perspectives. Bringing literature, film, philosophy, and border theory into dialogue, Deniz Göktürk asks how civic life can be sustained without exclusion, purification, or fear.
Deniz Göktürk, Ph.D. Freie Universität Berlin, professor of German / Film and Media at the University of California, Berkeley, works on cultural and media studies with a focus on moving images, multilingual literature, and theories of migration, social interaction, and aesthetic practice in a global horizon. Publications include a book on literary and cinematic imaginations of America in early twentieth-century German culture, translations from Turkish literature, and co-edited volumes: The German Cinema Book (BFI 2002, expanded 2nd edition 2019); Germany in Transit: Nation and Migration 1955-2005 (Berkeley: University of California Press 2007); Transit Deutschland: Debatten zu Nation und Migration (2011); Orienting Istanbul: Cultural Capital of Europe? (Routledge 2010); Komik der Integration: Grenzpraktiken der Gemeinschaft (2019). Her book Framing Migration: Seven Takes on Movement and Borders is forthcoming from De Gruyter.
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Kira Kosnick (Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION)