Randall Halle to deliver lecture

RANDALL HALLE to give talk at Ohio State
October 24, 2023
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Evans Laboratory Room 1008, main campus

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2023-10-24 16:00:00 2023-10-24 18:00:00 Randall Halle to deliver lecture You are cordially invited Randall Halle (University of Pittsburgh) Klaus W. Jonas Professor of German Film and Cultural Studies Germany in Eurafrika: Seeing the Shift from Colonialism to Developmentalism in Foreign Policy and Film Practice   Reviewing a series of newsreels and films against a backdrop German and European foreign policy, this paper will explore Germany’s participation in the European colonial project after World War II. In considering German colonialism it is generally overlooked that within the European Economic Community, Germany restored its colonial relation to Africa and other parts of the world. To be sure in the post-war era and the transition from direct colonial control to neo-colonial entanglement a new developmental model emerged: Lebensraum and Mission civilisatrice gave way to development aid and humanitarian relief. Such developmentalism continues to shape German and EU relations to the present.      Randall Halle is the Klaus W. Jonas Professor of German Film and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He directs the European Studies Center/Jean Monnet European Union Center of Excellence at Pitt as well as the Critical European Culture Studies PhD Program. His essays have appeared in journals such as EuropeNow, The International Journal of Cultural Policy, and New German Critique. He is the author of among others German Film after Germany: Toward a Transnational Aesthetic (U Illinois, 2008), The Europeanization of Cinema: Interzones and Imaginative Communities (U Illinois, 2014), and Visual Alterity: Seeing Difference in Cinema (U Illinois 2021). His research is focused now on Europe’s Moving Images.  Halle has received grants from the NEH, the DAAD, and the SSRC. For the academic year 2004-5 he was a Senior Fellow in the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies at the Free University. Academic year 2009-2010 he was a Senior Fulbright Researcher in Berlin. In 2019-2020 he was Visiting Fellow at the European University Viadrina. Fall 2022 he was a Simone Veil Fellow in the Project House Europe at the LMU, Munich.    Evans Laboratory Room 1008, main campus America/New_York public

You are cordially invited

Randall Halle

(University of Pittsburgh)
Klaus W. Jonas Professor of German Film and Cultural Studies

Germany in Eurafrika:
Seeing the Shift from Colonialism to Developmentalism
in Foreign Policy and Film Practice

 

Reviewing a series of newsreels and films against a backdrop German and European foreign policy, this paper will explore Germany’s participation in the European colonial project after World War II. In considering German colonialism it is generally overlooked that within the European Economic Community, Germany restored its colonial relation to Africa and other parts of the world. To be sure in the post-war era and the transition from direct colonial control to neo-colonial entanglement a new developmental model emerged: Lebensraum and Mission civilisatrice gave way to development aid and humanitarian relief. Such developmentalism continues to shape German and EU relations to the present. 

 

 

Randall Halle is the Klaus W. Jonas Professor of German Film and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He directs the European Studies Center/Jean Monnet European Union Center of Excellence at Pitt as well as the Critical European Culture Studies PhD Program. His essays have appeared in journals such as EuropeNow, The International Journal of Cultural Policy, and New German Critique. He is the author of among others German Film after Germany: Toward a Transnational Aesthetic (U Illinois, 2008), The Europeanization of Cinema: Interzones and Imaginative Communities (U Illinois, 2014), and Visual Alterity: Seeing Difference in Cinema (U Illinois 2021). His research is focused now on Europe’s Moving Images. 

Halle has received grants from the NEH, the DAAD, and the SSRC. For the academic year 2004-5 he was a Senior Fellow in the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies at the Free University. Academic year 2009-2010 he was a Senior Fulbright Researcher in Berlin. In 2019-2020 he was Visiting Fellow at the European University Viadrina. Fall 2022 he was a Simone Veil Fellow in the Project House Europe at the LMU, Munich.