But what did this imply? Special Lecture - Undine Zimmer From the early Zionists to Freud and then from Adorno through Fanon, racism became a mental illness. Shortly after the experiment, an article in Time Magazine, citing the study, asked the question: Is racism becoming a mental illness? But the idea of racism as a mental illness is much older, having its roots in the genealogies of race and racism as psychopathological categories from mid-19th century Europe and the United States up to today. In 2012, an interdisciplinary team of scientists at the University of Oxford reported the results of a drug trial, which claimed that a drug could reduce implicit racial bias among its users. Gilman (Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Professor of Psychiatry, Emory University) gave a special lecture. Gilman: How did Racism and Anti-Semitism become Mental Illnesses? - From Freud’s Vienna to Brown vs. Green Lecture (held annually in memory of Dennis Green, Schröder Professor of German, 1979-1990) on the subject of The Humanities and Society.

Strohschneider is a distinguished medievalist whose interests and publications extend to the role and purpose of the humanities in general, both within the academy as well as in society at large (see here). On Tuesday 20 May, Professor Peter Stohschneider, the President of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG – German Research Council) was a guest of the Department. In Cambridge presented his latest film, Und Äktschn!, an antidote to Hitler films, which was the subject of a recent interview in Der Spiegel: Professor Peter Strohschneider, President of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, gave the 2014 D.H. Polt is well known in Germany for his performances in comic films with a satirical edge, and there are many dimensions to his work (see ). On Tuesday 27 May, the Bavarian film actor, writer and comedian Gerhard Polt was a guest of the Department at a public event in St John’s College. Gerhard Polt Visiting - Special Presentation Unlike the World Cup, this conference takes place every three years and attracts large participation from around the world. On the following morning, they gave a further plenary at the seventh International Conference on the Medieval Chronicle in Liverpool. The IMC has established itself as an annual event with an attendance of over 1800 medievalists and is Europe's largest gathering in the Humanities. On Monday 7 July, they gave the opening plenary at the International Medieval Congress at Leeds, which this year took 'Empire' for its theme. Mark Chinca and Chris Young presented their AHRC-funded Kaiserchronik project with keynote lectures on successive days in Leeds and Liverpool. News and Events from before 2014-15 Kaiserchronik on the Road

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