the icon of modernism stands again like a temple on the field, as the great modernist gropius had planned it in the 1920s.
or does it?
the trees planted after the WWII around the BAUHAUS building in dessau were cut on 14-15 february 2007. the plan is to create a new park around the building, following the [...]
below are the presentations for the mid-term projects here at the bauhaus kolleg.
Luxembourg personal project mid-term part one
Sibiu personal project mid-term part two
discourse theory and comparison
Personal contribution on sibiu memorials to group project
cfp_laclau_helsinki.pdf
Here’s a call of papers for a conference I’m organising in September 2007.
(The pdf is also available here on the Department of Political Sciences, University of Helsinki.)
Discourses on populism and nationalism
Call for papers
The Construction of ‘Us’ and ‘Them’:
Discourses on populism and nationalism
University of Helsinki, 7-8 September 2007
A key
theme in politics, which translates to many fields [...]
Sibiu 2006. A removed saint.
Until now, much of my academic work has been on street names, statues and memorials, and the, mainly, postcommunist politics of memory mainly in the context of Budapest but also on London. In Sibiu (Hermannstadt in German, Nagyszeben in Hungarian) in Transylvania, Romania, I was fascinated by this statue, which [...]
