Thomas Mann House Events Archive
September 2019
Global Voices: The Housing Crisis from Skid Row to Tokyo
Los Angeles
From Los Angeles, to Munich, Berlin and Tokyo – the current housing crisis is a global development. In the age of low interest rates, housing has become a worldwide investment strategy. The effects of this development are manifold, but frequently disastrous for lower-income, minority communities. The result: affordable housing is being dismantled, not just in the United States, but internationally. However, while commercial upgrading, displacements and evictions are becoming a matter of routine, social justice movements are organizing on a transnational level to combat urban inequality.
“Global Voices: The Housing Crisis from Skid Row to Tokyo” will provide a forum for activists, artists and scholars from four different countries to discuss and present the roots of the current housing crisis, the role of race and ethnicity for housing and the organizing strategies for the human right to housing.
Participants:
Leilani Farha, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing
Angelika Levi, Artist, Villa Aurora Fellow
Lisa Riedner, Anthropologist, Thomas Mann House Fellow
J. Walt Senterfitt, Union de Vecinos / Los Angeles Tenants Union
Pete White, Los Angeles Community Action Network
Location
Los Angeles Community Action Network
838 E 6th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90021
To RSVP please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/FmRtFeZrMBdgujuG6
This event is a cooperation of Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House and the Los Angeles Community Action Network.
Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House e. V. is supported by the German Federal Foreign Office and Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
Lecture Tour Frido Mann: "Democracy Will Win" — New York City
New York City
Born in the United States, Frido Mann sensed the democratic creed of his parents and grandparents from childhood on. They had managed to leave Europe for the U.S. before the outbreak of WWII. During his extended lecture tours, Thomas Mann, Frido's grandfather, addressed his American audiences with his speech “The Coming Victory of Democracy” warning of the dangers of fascism for a liberal democracy: “The social renewal of democracy is the presupposition and the guarantee of its victory.”
Following in his grandfather's tracks, Frido Mann is going to give lectures in numerous places in the United States and Canada. He will address the current crisis in the American and European democracies and the need for their restoration, on the basis of transatlantic dialogue.
The event will be moderated by Annie Pfeiffer (Columbia University).
Frido Mann was born in 1940 in Monterey/California. He studied music, catholic theology, and psychology and worked as a clinical psychologist in in Münster, Leipzig and Prague. Frido Mann was the executive director of the Institute for Medical Psychology at the University of Münster. He now lives in Munich and works as a freelance writer. His recent publications are "An die Musik. Ein autobiographischer Essay" (Ode to Music: An Autobiographical Essay) and — together with Christine Mann — "Es werde Licht. Die Einheit von Geist und Materie in der Quantenphysik" (Let there be Light: The Union of Spirit and Matter in Quantum Physics). He is 2019 Honorary Fellow at Thomas Mann House. In August 2018, S. Fischer published "Das Weiße Haus des Exils" (The White House of Exile) about the Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles.
Location
German Academy New York
1014 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10028
September 20, 2019
6:00PM
To register for the event, please fill out the following form: https://form.jotform.com/92236227140146
This event is part of a Lecture Tour of Professor Mann. It is made possible by the support of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung.
- September 20: New York City
- September 23 and 24: Brandeis University
- September 26: Denver
- September 27: Kansas City
- October 1: Washington DC
- October 4: Portland
- October 8: Los Angeles
- October 9: Long Beach
- October 10: Berkeley
- October 12: San Francisco
- October 15–25: Dartmouth College
- October 29: Toronto
A part of "Wunderbar Together: Germany and the U.S."
Screening and Discussion: "Cherry Blossoms"
Los Angeles
The Thomas Mann House will screen "Cherry Blossoms" (Kirschblüten – Hanami) by Doris Dörrie, from 2008. Rudi and Trudi have been together for 30 years. When Trudi dies suddenly, Rudi flies to Japan to their son Karl, to see the things that were important to Trudi and which they did not have time to experience together: their son in Japan, the legendary japanese cherry blossoms, Fujiyama and Butoh dance, once an obsession of Trudi.
The screening will be followed by a presentation by Thomas Mann Fellow Stefan Keppler-Tasaki (University of Tokyo) in conversation with Professor of Japanese Kyoko Kurita and Associat Professor of German and Russian Friederike von Schwerin-High (both Pomona College).
Participants:
Stefan Keppler-Tasaki, Thomas Mann Fellow / University of Tokyo
Friederike von Schwerin-High, Pomona College
Kyoko Kurita, Pomona College
Location
Thomas Mann House
1550 N San Remo Drive
Pacific Palisades, CA 90272
Participation by invitation only.
This event is a cooperation of Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House and Pomona College.
Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House e. V. is supported by the German Federal Foreign Office and Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
Lecture Tour Frido Mann: "The White House of Exile" — Brandeis University
Waltham, MA
Born in the United States, Frido Mann sensed the democratic creed of his parents and grandparents from childhood on. They had managed to leave Europe for the U.S. before the outbreak of WWII. During his extended lecture tours, Thomas Mann, Frido's grandfather, addressed his American audiences with his speech “The Coming Victory of Democracy” warning of the dangers of fascism for a liberal democracy: “The social renewal of democracy is the presupposition and the guarantee of its victory.”
Following in his grandfather's tracks, Frido Mann is going to give lectures in numerous places in the United States and Canada. He will address the current crisis in the American and European democracies and the need for their restoration, on the basis of transatlantic dialogue.
The luncheon talk at Brandeis University will be moderated by Prof. Stephen Dowden.
Frido Mann was born in 1940 in Monterey/California. He studied music, catholic theology, and psychology and worked as a clinical psychologist in in Münster, Leipzig and Prague. Frido Mann was the executive director of the Institute for Medical Psychology at the University of Münster. He now lives in Munich and works as a freelance writer. His recent publications are "An die Musik. Ein autobiographischer Essay" (Ode to Music: An Autobiographical Essay) and — together with Christine Mann — "Es werde Licht. Die Einheit von Geist und Materie in der Quantenphysik" (Let there be Light: The Union of Spirit and Matter in Quantum Physics). He is 2019 Honorary Fellow at Thomas Mann House. In August 2018, S. Fischer published "Das Weiße Haus des Exils" (The White House of Exile) about the Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles.
Location
Brandeis University
415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02454
Faculty Club Lounge
September 24, 2019
12:00PM
This event is part of a Lecture Tour of Professor Mann. It is made possible by the support of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung.
- September 20: New York City
- September 23 and 24: Brandeis University
- September 26: Denver
- September 27: Kansas City
- October 1: Washington DC
- October 4: Portland
- October 8: Los Angeles
- October 9: Long Beach
- October 10: Berkeley
- October 12: San Francisco
- October 15–25: Dartmouth College
- October 29: Toronto
A part of "Wunderbar Together: Germany and the U.S."
Lecture Tour Frido Mann: "Democracy Will Win" — Denver
Denver
Born in the United States, Frido Mann sensed the democratic creed of his parents and grandparents from childhood on. They had managed to leave Europe for the U.S. before the outbreak of WWII. During his extended lecture tours, Thomas Mann, Frido's grandfather, addressed his American audiences with his speech “The Coming Victory of Democracy” warning of the dangers of fascism for a liberal democracy: “The social renewal of democracy is the presupposition and the guarantee of its victory.”
Following in his grandfather's tracks, Frido Mann is going to give lectures in numerous places in the United States and Canada. He will address the current crisis in the American and European democracies and the need for their restoration, on the basis of transatlantic dialogue.
Frido Mann was born in 1940 in Monterey/California. He studied music, catholic theology, and psychology and worked as a clinical psychologist in in Münster, Leipzig and Prague. Frido Mann was the executive director of the Institute for Medical Psychology at the University of Münster. He now lives in Munich and works as a freelance writer. His recent publications are "An die Musik. Ein autobiographischer Essay" (Ode to Music: An Autobiographical Essay) and — together with Christine Mann — "Es werde Licht. Die Einheit von Geist und Materie in der Quantenphysik" (Let there be Light: The Union of Spirit and Matter in Quantum Physics). He is 2019 Honorary Fellow at Thomas Mann House. In August 2018, S. Fischer published "Das Weiße Haus des Exils" (The White House of Exile) about the Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles.
Location
This event is by invitation only
September 26, 2019
This event is part of a Lecture Tour of Professor Mann. It is made possible by the support of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung.
- September 20: New York City
- September 23 and 24: Brandeis University
- September 26: Denver
- September 27: Kansas City
- October 1: Washington DC
- October 4: Portland
- October 8: Los Angeles
- October 9: Long Beach
- October 10: Berkeley
- October 12: San Francisco
- October 15–25: Dartmouth College
- October 29: Toronto
A part of "Wunderbar Together: Germany and the U.S."
Lecture Tour Frido Mann: "Democracy Will Win" — Kansas City
Kansas City
Born in the United States, Frido Mann sensed the democratic creed of his parents and grandparents from childhood on. They had managed to leave Europe for the U.S. before the outbreak of WWII. During his extended lecture tours, Thomas Mann, Frido's grandfather, addressed his American audiences with his speech “The Coming Victory of Democracy” warning of the dangers of fascism for a liberal democracy: “The social renewal of democracy is the presupposition and the guarantee of its victory.”
Following in his grandfather's tracks, Frido Mann is going to give lectures in numerous places in the United States and Canada. He will address the current crisis in the American and European democracies and the need for their restoration, on the basis of transatlantic dialogue.
Frido Mann was born in 1940 in Monterey/California. He studied music, catholic theology, and psychology and worked as a clinical psychologist in in Münster, Leipzig and Prague. Frido Mann was the executive director of the Institute for Medical Psychology at the University of Münster. He now lives in Munich and works as a freelance writer. His recent publications are "An die Musik. Ein autobiographischer Essay" (Ode to Music: An Autobiographical Essay) and — together with Christine Mann — "Es werde Licht. Die Einheit von Geist und Materie in der Quantenphysik" (Let there be Light: The Union of Spirit and Matter in Quantum Physics). He is 2019 Honorary Fellow at Thomas Mann House. In August 2018, S. Fischer published "Das Weiße Haus des Exils" (The White House of Exile) about the Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles.
Location
Plaza Library Branch: Lower Level
Truman Forum Auditorium
4801 Main Street
Kansas City, MO 64112
September 27, 2019
Please RSVP at info-kansascity@goethe.de
This event is part of a Lecture Tour of Professor Mann. It is made possible by the support of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung.
- September 20: New York City
- September 23 and 24: Brandeis University
- September 26: Denver
- September 27: Kansas City
- October 1: Washington DC
- October 4: Portland
- October 8: Los Angeles
- October 9: Long Beach
- October 10: Berkeley
- October 12: San Francisco
- October 15–25: Dartmouth College
- October 29: Toronto
A part of "Wunderbar Together: Germany and the U.S."
Discussion with Armen Avanessian: "Where Do We Go From Here? A Cross-Continental Odyssey to the Future"
Detroit
re:publica is Europe’s largest internet and digital society conference, taking place annually in Berlin. re:publica 2019 hosted 1135 speakers from 52 countries, and received more than 25 000 participants over the course of the three day event. re:publica addresses all of the ways digitization is changing societies, from its impact on politics, media, social services, to the ways its changing arts, culture, business, and science. Since October 2018, re:publica has joined the year-long Wunderbar Together campaign and is on Sequencer Tour through the USA. With previous stops in Los Angeles, Austin and New York, the tour is now heading to Detroit on September 28th, 2019.
Thomas Mann House Fellow Armen Avanessian will be part of the discussion "Where Do We Go From Here? A Cross-Continental Odyssey to the Future" with Ingrid LaFleur, Social Impact Advisor at Detroit Blockchain Center and Will Senyo, Co-Founder and CEO Impact Hub Accra.
A part of "Wunderbar Together: Germany and the U.S."
Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House e. V. is supported by the German Federal Foreign Office and Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
Armen Avanessian: "Future Metaphysics"
Detroit
Part of the Deroy Lecture Series.
Lecture: Armen Avanessian—Future Metaphysics.
Armen Avanessian studied philosophy and political science in Vienna and Paris. After completing his dissertation in literature, he worked at the Free University Berlin from 2007–2014. He has previously been a Visiting Fellow in the German Department at Columbia University and the German Department at Yale University as well as Visiting Professor at various art academies in Europe and the US. In Berlin, Avanessian is the editor at large at Merve Verlag and in charge of the theory program at the internationally acclaimed theatre Volksbühne. He is a co-founder of the bilingual research platform Spekulative Poetik (www.spekulative-poetik.de), conducting a series of events, translations and publications. His work is translated into various languages. Forthcoming in German are two monographs, One plus One and I –I (Merve, 2019), both written in collaboration with Anke Hennig. Forthcoming in English is Future Metaphysics (Polity, 2019).
Location
Wayne State University
42 W Warren Ave
Detroit, MI 48202
English Department Conference Room
10302 Maccabees
Monday, September 30, 2019 - 3:00pm
An event in cooperation with Wayne State University.
