Silke-Maria Weineck

Oct 10, 2024 | chronicle.com | Silke-Maria Weineck

The leaked audio hardly came as a surprise. In the brief recording, the University of Michigan’s president, Santa Ono, can be heard explaining to an unknown audience that we are being blackmailed by Congress, “who are not shy to say that they will hold the whole institution accountable for not addressing antisemitism.

Sep 9, 2024 | chronicle.com | Nicholas Lemann |Silke-Maria Weineck |Adam Gjesdal |Len Gutkin

In 2017 the theologian Paul J. Griffiths quit his chaired position at Duke following a dispute over diversity-training sessions.

Sep 3, 2024 | chronicle.com | Silke-Maria Weineck

It was over quickly. The campus police made four arrests. They took the signs with the photos of the dead children. They did not take the Israeli flags. That was Wednesday, August 28, Day 3 of the “Year of Democracy and Civic Engagement” at the University of Michigan. There is something deeply unsettling about watching a gang of armed, heavily padded officers charge into a group of young people, grab a protester, drag them to the side, march them off. It seems so deeply dishonorable.

Apr 2, 2024 | chronicle.com | Silke-Maria Weineck

There is a devastating Kafka text, “Up in the Gallery,” just two sentences long. The first sentence is, formally, a hypothetical: “If some frail, consumptive circus rider were to be driven around the arena on a faltering horse in front of an untiring audience by a whip-swinging boss for months, without interruption … ” The sentence goes on.