Presentation by Nicholas Baer, University of California Berkeley

Nicholas Baer, guest scholar at Lund University during May, presents his book Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism (UC Press, 2024): https://german.berkeley.edu/publications/historical-turns-weimar-cinema-and-crisis-historicism

Nicholas Baer is currently associate professor in Germanistics at UC Berkeley, and is a prolific and influential researcher in the fields of film and media theory, as well as film history:  https://german.berkeley.edu/people/nicholas-baer 

The seminar is a collaboration between The Research Seminar in Film Studies and the Komplitt Seminar