Events | Foreign Correspondent Unplugged: "Pop und Protest" - Aida Baghernejad, August Brown & Annett Scheffel in Conversation

Goethe-Institut Los Angeles | 22. August 2024

19:00 Uhr (PT) | Goethe-Institut Los Angeles

Thomas Mann Fellow Aida Baghernejad im Gespräch mit LA Times Journalist August Brown und Kulturjournalistin Annett Scheffel!

*Diese Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt*

Join us with the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles and the American Council on Germany (ACG Warburg Chapter) for a discussion between music Journalists Aida Baghernejad (2024 Thomas Mann Fellow) and August Brown (LA Times) as they discuss the powerful interplay between pop culture and the politics of protest in a conversation moderated by Annett Scheffel. The panelists will explore how pop culture has become an indispensable arena for political expression and activism, examining the paradigm shifts in music journalism and the dynamic relationship between entertainment and social change. In this discussion the journalists will negotiate how pop culture can act as an agent of hope and its role as a tool for supporting democracies in peril.

The conversation will be recorded and published on the Foreign Correspondent Unplugged podcast and in the Goethe-Institut magazine GEGENÜBER.

 

Attendance

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Participants

Aida Baghernejad | Image: Ana Torres
Aida Baghernejad is a journalist who studied media studies in Berlin, Barcelona, and London. Her work focuses on how cultural products such as music, film, and social media content influence the socio-political state of the world. In addition to numerous contributions for Die Zeit, Der Tagesspiegel, Missy Magazine, and others, she also co-hosts the podcast 55 Voices for Democracy, a collaboration between the Thomas Mann House, the Goethe-Institut, dublab radio, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.

 
 

 

August Brown covers pop music, the music industry and nightlife policy at the Los Angeles Times.

 
 

 

 

 

Annett Scheffel is a culture writer, editor, speaker, and presenter based in Los Angeles and Berlin. She thinks, writes, and talks about music, film, feminism, and contemporary culture for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Spiegel Online, Zeit Online Musikexpress, Dummy Magazin, and Deutschlandfunk — preferably at the intersection between identity, society, and politics.

 
 

 

 

Foreign Correspondent Unplugged ist eine Serie in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Goethe-Institut Los Angeles und dem American Council on Germany (ACG Warburg Chapter).

               

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