How are we to understand the concept of “citizenship” in the context of women victims in the Holocaust society?

This article examines the situation of German Jewish elderly in the Theresienstadt ghetto.

This study offers a transnational history of the Holocaust based on a study of a well-known Berlin Jewish family, the Veit Simons. We use this tangled family history as a point of departure for a transnational history of the Holocaust. In particular, we show how to read the links connecting the protagonists to the wider world as a means of writing…[Read more]

There is a wealth of problems with Claude Lanzmann’s recent film The Last of the Unjust, on Benjamin Murmelstein, the last Elder of the Jews of Theresienstadt. Yet the most aggravating of them is that it portrays Murmelstein as someone who he was not, namely as a heroic figure. In styling Murmelstein as a tragic hero, Lanzmann projects his own p…[Read more]

Marco Heiles, The Medial Determination of German Edition Philology, in: Hannes Bajohr, Benjamin Dorvel, Vincent Hessling und Tabea Weitz (Hg.), The Future of Philology. Proceedings of the 11th Annual Columbia University German Graduate Student Conference, Newcastle upon Tyne 2014, S. 183-193. Content: 1. Edition philology in the eyes of media…[Read more]

This is a review of Max Beckmann in New York. Written by Sabine Rewald and published by Yale University Press, this catalogue accompanies the eponymous exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Avenue, 16 October 2016-20 February 2017; 148 pages with color reproductions of all the paintings from the exhibition plus other Beckmann…[Read more]

Eine gerechte Verteilung von Gütern reicht nicht aus, um eine Gesellschaft gerecht zu machen. Gerechtigkeitstheorien müssen auch die sozialen Beziehungen in den Blick nehmen: Wirkliche soziale Gerechtigkeit herrscht erst, wenn es Institutionen gibt, die uns die Chance einräumen, soziale Anerkennung zu erfahren.

Sound and space—however one defines these terms—are phenomenologically and ontologically intertwined.

The Muslim-dominated “Swahili Coast”has always served as a conceptual as well as physical periphery for post-colonial Kenya. This article takes Kenyan youth music under the influence of global hip-hop as an ethnographic entry into the dynamics of identity and citizenship in this region. Kenyan youth music borrows from global hip-hop culture the…[Read more]

This is the introductory chapter to the monograph “Recht – Macht – Öffentlichkeit”, which investigates how to include the phenomenological dimension of the life-world in the analysis of the demoratic state. In Jürgen Habermas’s discourse theory of law and democracy there is reason for such an extension, yet it is hard to carry out metho…[Read more]

An introduction to twenty Persian musical texts written in India which included both Persian and Indian music

This article focuses on recording Persian music by the German record companies during the interwar period and social, economic, and political motivations behind it.

This article focuses on the history of European military music in Persia and shows how this history was twisted by French/Artesian patriotism and self-promotion. In order to provide an alternative history, this article explores various sources and introduces several European musicians who worked in Persia in the nineteenth century, including the…[Read more]

An upper-level seminar on contemporary negotiations of Germany‘s Cold War and National Socialist pasts, as reflected in literature, film, architecture, visual art, and political discourse from 1989 to the present. (As taught at UCLA, 2013.)

Seminar on conceptions of “race” in classical German thinkers (including Leibniz, Kant, Herder, Hegel, Kleist, A. von Humboldt), and their reception in twentieth-century North American, Francophone African, French, and Caribbean political thought. (As taught at Princeton University, 2013)

A delineation and critique of the posthumous construction Goethe and Kant into rival “antipodes” within German intellectual culture in the early twentieth century.

“Senghor’s Other Europe,” Savannah Review, vol. 1 (November 2012)

When examining a particular creative work, one has to be aware of a number of hidden relationships embedded within that work as a whole. Who created this work? What was their goal in doing so (if there ever was an established goal)? How am I supposed to interpret this work, given the nature in which it was created? Going down these paths of…[Read more]

ABSTRACT Joon Park takes a closer look at Steven Strunk’s innovative application of the neo-Riemannian Tonnetz to jazz. Strunk reinterprets neo-Riemannian transformations as geometric reflections—as opposed to more conventional group theory operations—showing his understanding of jazz performance practice. Park clarifies the difference between con…[Read more]