The Department of World Languages celebrates 25 years of German unification with a free guest lecture at 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 15, in the Student Union Forum.
Uli Linke, professor of anthropology at the Rochester Institute of Technology, will speak on “Language as Battleground: ‘Speaking’ the Nation, Lingual Citizenship, and Other Disillusions of German Unification.”
Linke’s scholarly works center on “the cultural politics of nationhood in Europe, with particular attention to practices of dehumanization and inhumanity, whether under the colonial, imperialist, fascist, and cold-war capitalist or contemporary security state.”
She is the author or editor of several books, including “Cultures of Fear: A Critical Reader” (co-editor), London: Pluto Press. 2009; “German Bodies: Race and Representation after Hitler.” New York: Routledge. 1999; “Blood and Nation: The European Aesthetics of Race.” Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 1999; and “Denying Biology” (co-editor), Lanham: UPA.1996.
For more information, contact Heike Henderson at hhender@boisestate.edu.
BY: KATHLEEN TUCK PUBLISHED 11:11 AM / SEPTEMBER 30, 2015