philfliX: Philosophieren im Kino

In the organizer's words:

Knowledge & Discrimination; Epistemic Injustice: Who Disturbs the Nightingale (1962)

04.11.25 - from 18:30:
Who Disturbs a Nightingale (Director: Robert Mulligan, 1962)
Speakers: Tim Grasshöfer M.A. & Marion Seiche M.A.
Topic: Knowledge and Discrimination: Epistemic Injustice

About the movie:
As an adult, the daughter of a lawyer recalls how she first came into contact with the problems and conflicts of her environment as a child in Macomb County, Alabama, in 1932, when the racial prejudices of the population broke out openly at the trial of one of her father's clients, a young black man. Despite some formal weaknesses and its proximity to nostalgic clichés, this is a humanly moving, successful literary adaptation with a high ethical stance that makes a convincing case against racism and for tolerance.

After the movie:
Following the film, philosophers Marion Seiche and Tim Grasshöfer (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) will discuss questions of justice in relation to knowledge with the audience: Who is actually allowed to know? Who is believed, and who is excluded per se as a source of credible judgments? Such and similar questions are dealt with in philosophy under the concept of epistemic injustice and illustrated by the film"Wer die Nachtigall stört" using the example of racist prejudices in a court case.

📍 Location: Bambi Filmstudio, Klosterstr. 78
🎟️ Tickets & info: t1p.de/filmphilo

About the project:
📽 philfliX - Philosophy & Film
Watching exciting films and then philosophizing in the cinema? As part of the philfliX series (previously: Philosophy & Film), philosophers from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf give short keynote speeches after selected film screenings in which they make interesting connections between the film shown and philosophical topics. Afterwards, the audience is invited to discuss with the experts in the movie theater. The philfliX project is part of the interactive public philosophy project denXte.

Organization:
Jonas Ouass, Prof. Dr. Markus Schrenk (Institute of Philosophy, HHU)

The other dates in the series:

• 19.11.25 - from 18:30:
  Leibniz - Chronicle of a Lost Image (Director: Edgar Reitz & Anatol Schuster, 2025)
  Speaker: Prof. Dr. Christoph Kann
  Topic: Leibniz's philosophical thinking
  
• 10.12.25 - from 18:30:
  Arrival (Director: Denis Villeneuve, 2016)
  Speaker: Dr. Simon Wimmer
  Topic: Language, thinking, world
  

The project is funded by the Citizens' University of the HHU.

Price information:

Students receive the discounted "Gildekarte" rate.