European Studies

St. Francis of Assisi is celebrated as the patron saint of animals and is also recognized as a symbol of pacifism and brotherhood. How then could the figure of St. Francis end up serving the Fascist political project, most tellingly by being declared the Patron Saint of (Fascist) Italy in 1939? Why, and how, would this scrawny Saint become the emblem of a nation dedicated to war?

German film director Henk Handloetgen, co-writer and and co-director of the hit TV-series “Babylon Berlin”, faculty, and student panelists will discuss the series’ lasting success, its aesthetic and historical contexts in Weimar German culture and modern film technology, and its relevance for the 21st century. Free and open to the public.

Season 4 of the German hit series “Babylon Berlin” has finally arrived in the United States. Set in the early 1930s in Germany and the period of the National Socialists’ rapid rise to absolute power, season 4 once again follows police inspector Gereon Rath (Volker Bruch) and police assistant Charlotte Ritter (Liv Lisa Fries) as they try to solve a murder-mystery set in the streets of Berlin. However, it is Gereon’s slow surrender to the power of Fascism that really drives this season and the relationship between the two protagonists who were once on the same page …

Season 4 of the German hit series “Babylon Berlin” has finally arrived in the United States. Set in the early 1930s in Germany and the period of the National Socialists’ rapid rise to absolute power, season 4 once again follows police inspector Gereon Rath (Volker Bruch) and police assistant Charlotte Ritter (Liv Lisa Fries) as they try to solve a murder-mystery set in the streets of Berlin. However, it is Gereon’s slow surrender to the power of Fascism that really drives this season and the relationship between the two protagonists who were once on the same page …

Season 4 of the German hit series “Babylon Berlin” has finally arrived in the United States. Set in the early 1930s in Germany and the period of the National Socialists’ rapid rise to absolute power, season 4 once again follows police inspector Gereon Rath (Volker Bruch) and police assistant Charlotte Ritter (Liv Lisa Fries) as they try to solve a murder-mystery set in the streets of Berlin. However, it is Gereon’s slow surrender to the power of Fascism that really drives this season and the relationship between the two protagonists who were once on the same page …

Presented in Spanish by Ana Cabana Iglesia, Associate Professor of History, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain).

Julianna Neuhouser - “The Strange Marriage of Right-Wing Anti-Gender Ideology Activists and Trans-exclusionary Feminists”

Siobhan Guerrero Mc Manus - “Discursive and political convergences between the New Right and Trans-exclusionary Feminism”

Agniezska Graff - “Anti-gender politics: traditionalism, illiberalism, or neo-fascism?”