Andrew Wildermuth discusses doing sentimentality and lost places with sociologist and postdoctoral researcher Sarah Miriam Pritz. Also in this episode: Wim Wender’s Perfect Days and “You’ll Never Walk Alone.”
Doctoral candidate Andrea Klinger and associate researcher Larissa Pfaller discuss the sentimental from a sociological perspective, how it may shape animal encounters, and the popular TV series Derry Girls.
Andrew Wildermuth and Global Sentimentality fellow and Americanist Anthony Obst discuss the Scottboro Trials, political mobilization and the sentimental, as well as Barry Jenkin’s 2016 film Moonlight.
Find more about Anthony’s own activist work with the Berlin-based Justice Collective: https://www.justice-collective.org/.
Raimund Held discusses the sentimental in connection to Indian film and fiction as well as global cinema with Anthropologist and Global Sentimentality Project fellow Rama Srinivasan.
Find Rama’s article on Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown in the Lexicon of Global Melodrama: https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5973-3/lexicon-of-global-melodrama/.
Vincent Steinbach discusses the sentimental in politics and comedy with Americanist and Global Sentimentality Project fellow Nele Sawallisch (Trier University).
Find Nele’s article on Laurence Anyways in the Lexicon of Global Melodrama: https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5973-3/lexicon-of-global-melodrama/