Prof. Hamm-Ehsani publishes on transnational Turks

Karin Hamm-Ehsani, assistant professor of German, has authored an article, "Screening Transnational Turkish Community in Fatih Akýn's Kurz und Schmerzlos (Short Sharp Shock)" in the January 2005 issue of Culture & Communication (Kültür ve Iletiþim). Issued by the University of Ankara, Turkey, the journal publishes critical work in the fields of communication, cultural criticism, and social thought. The article elucidates the film's significance for the crucial (if slow and subtle) changes manifest in self-definitions of Germany's Turkish diaspora and its self-representations in the narrative of Germany after the fall of the Wall.