Course Schedule
Week 1 Monday, September 28th *Noon to 2pm Option to move in Adalbertstr. 58 (Timo will wait at Minimarkt) *5pm to 7pm Option to move in Adalbertstr. 58 (Timo will wait at Minimarkt) Tuesday, September 29th *Noon to 3pm Option to move in Adalbertstr. 58 (Timo will wait at Minimarkt) Wednesday, September 30th – All-Day Orientation • Time: 9:00am to Evening (7:30-8pm) • Location: Multiple – see below *9:00am - Guided Tour Adalbertstr. area by Manuela Mangold Minimarkt corner Adalbertstr/Melchiorstr *11:00am - Introduction to Public Transportation S-Bahn Station Heinrich-Heine-Str. *11:30am - Lunch (BRING CASH, NO CREDIT CARD ACCEPTED!) Cafeteria, Dorotheenstr. 17 *Noon - 1st Meeting in Seminar: Introduction to the Program “Hegel Building” Dorotheenstr. 24, Room 1.308 *2:30pm - Guided Tour of Humboldt University by Timo *4:15pm - Brief boat cruise on the river Spree S-Bahn Station Friedrichstr., docks “Reederei Winkler” *6:30pm - Welcome dinner at Clärchens Ballhaus Auguststr. 24 Thursday, October 1st – CHID 471b, Memory & Urban Space *1st Seminar • Time: 10:30am • Location: Hegelbau, Dorotheenstr. 24, Room 1.308 *General information: • Topic and focus of course • Reading • Excursions • Assignments *Introductory Lecture: • History and Memory: The Nazi Past in German Historiography and Politics of Memory * Lunch - (BRING CASH, NO CREDIT CARD ACCEPTED!) • Time: Noon • Location: Cafeteria, Dorotheenstr. 17 * Official introduction for International Students “Audimax” • Time: 1pm • Location: Dorotheenstr. 17 Friday, October 2nd *10am Meeting for sightseeing tour, lunch on tour In front of main building HU, Unter den Linden 6 *2pm Introduction to bureaucratic issues (BRING PASSPORT!) Cafeteria, Dorotheenstr. 17 Week 2 Monday, October 5th - EURO 499/CHID 498, Independent Projects • Time: 1:30 to 2:15pm • Location: Hegelbau, Dorotheenstr. 24, Room 1.308 *First meeting: Follow up meetings will be scheduled with groups Monday, October 5th - Euro 494/CHID 471a, Bonn to Berlin ***Part I: UNDERSTANDING UNIFICATION • Time: 2:15pm to 4pm • Location: Hegelbau, Dorotheenstr. 24. room 1.308 *Topic: Germany and berlin before 1989 *Abstract: After the end of the Nazi regime and the division of Germany, two states were founded with ultimately very different political structures, ideologies, economies and cultures. Yet the ‘German question’ penetrated all aspects of public life. How did the GDR and the FRG conceptualize their relationship and identities in different historical periods? What was the impact of the Cold War and of Willy Brandt’s ‘Ostpolitik’ in the 1970s? *Reading: • Simon Green et al. (2008) The Politics of the New Germany, ch. 1, 2 and 4 Tuesday, October 6th – CHID 471b, Memory & Urban Space • Time: 2pm to 4pm • Location: Hegelbau, Dorotheenstr. 24, Room 1.308 *Topic: Traces, Voids, Countermonuments *Reading: • James E. Young, Memory, Counter-Memory and the End of the Monument, in: Shelley Hornstein and Florence Jacobowitz (eds.), Image and Remembrance, Bloomington/IN 2003, 59-78. • Alon Confino, Remembering the Second World War, 1945-1965: Narratives of Victimhood and Genocide. Cultural Analysis 4 (2005), 46-75. o http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~caforum/volume4/pdf/confino.pdf • Andreas Huyssen, The Voids of Berlin. Critical Inquiry 24 (1997), 57-81. *Special assignment: • Concepts and categories used in memory studies Wednesday, October 7th - Euro 494/CHID 471a, Bonn to Berlin • Time: 12 to 2pm • Location: Hegelbau, Dorotheenstr. 24, Room 1.308 *Topic: GDR: SOURCES OF DISSENT *Abstract: Fueled by Soviet perestroika and reform movements in Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia, the GDR witnessed a massive increase in legal and illegal exodus attempts in the late 1990s. At the same time, protest movements formed within the country and took to the streets in the summer of 1989. What were the sources of dissent? Who were the protagonists in the protest groups and what were their goals? How did the GDR government react? The opening of the wall in Berlin on November 9, 1989 was a historical accident. Neither the GDR political elites nor the protesters were expecting it, nor were they prepared to deal with the repercussions of sudden free movement between the two countries. How can we account for such accidental politics? What were the dynamics leading up to Nov. 9, 1989? *Reading: • David Childs (2001), The Fall of the GDR. Germany’s Road to Unity, Harlow: Pearson Education, ch. 6, pp. 77 – 91. • Richard T. Gray/Sabine Wilke (eds./transl.) (1996), German Unification and its Discontents, Documents from the Peaceful Revolution, Seattle: University of Washington Press, doc. 1 – 7, pp. 3 – 15, doc. 17, pp. 47 – 52. • Dirk Philipsen (1993), We Were The People. Voices from East Germany’s Revolutionary Autumn of 1989, Durham: Duke UP, part II: ‘Democracy – Now or Never’, pp. 195 – 253. Thursday, October 8th – CHID 471b, Memory and Urban Space – Site Visit/Excursion • Time: 11am to 1pm • Destinations: Unter den Linden, Forum Fridericianum, New Guard House, the “Library” memorial; Museum Island, Palace Square; the memorial to the Herbert-Baum-Group in the Lustgarten *Topic: Urban Landscapes of Memory in the Historical Center Friday through Saturday, October 9th-10th: Field trip to Leipzig • Departure Date / Time: October 9th / 7:30am • Departure Location: Berlin main station Invalidenstraße 53 10557 Berlin-Tiergarten • Departure from Leipzig main train station: Saturday 6:55pm • Arrival back in Berlin: 8:15Date Week 3 Monday, October 12th – Euro 494/CHID 471a, Bonn to Berlin *IMPORTANT NOTE: WATCHOUT FOR THE DATE CHANGE – SABINE’S SEMINAR MEETS TUESDAY INSTEAD OF WEDNESDAY THIS WEEK! • Time: 2pm to 4pm • Location: Hegelbau, Dorotheenstr. 24, Room 1.308 *Topic:1989 to Unification *Abstract: Fast transition to a united Germany was neither on the East German nor the West German agenda before 1989. What did the opening of the wall mean for the dissident’s movements’ search for a ‘Third Way’? How did the movement slogan “Wir sind das Volk”(We are the people) come to change into “Wir sind ein Volk” (We are one people)? How did the international community react to the specter of unification? What were the politics behind economic, monetary and political unity? *Reading: Simon Green et al. (2008) The Politics of the New Germany, ch. 3 David Childs (2001), The Fall of the GDR. Germany’s Road to Unity, Harlow: Pearson Education, ch. 8 – 10. pp. 92 – 133. Gray/Wilke, pp. 81 – 85, No. 26 (Kohl’s Ten Point Plan), pp. 92/93 No. 30 (Self Definition of Round Tables East Berlin), pp. 123/124, No 40 (Modrow plan for unification), No. 43, pp. 130 - 134 (Positions of the Round Table for Negotiations). “Saying the Unsayable about the Germans”, The Spectator, July 14, 1990. (e-copy) “Be Nice to the Germans”, The New York Times, July 20, 1990. (e-copy) Tuesday, October 13th – Euro 494/CHID 471a, Bonn to Berlin – Site Visit/Excursion • Time: 12 to 2pm • Destination: House of Democracy and Human Rights o Greifswalder Straße 4, 10405 Berlin • Exhibit: “The Dream of a Different Germany” • Discussion with Civic Movement Participant. o http://www.hausderdemokratie.de Wednesday, October 14th – CHID 471b, Memory and Urban Space • Time: 12 to 2pm • Location: Hegelbau, Dorotheenstr. 24, Room 1.308 *Topic: JEWS IN GERMANY TODAY – ADMONITION, EXOTICISM, AND RENAISSANCE *Reading • David Sorkin, The Spirit of Prussian Jewry: The Dual Legacy of Berlin. Ramat-Gan 1993. • Peter Gay, Freud, Jews, and other Germans. Oxford, 1978, 169-188 (The Berlin-Jewish Spirit: A Dogma in Search of Some Doubts), • Jeffrey Peck, Being Jewish in the New Germany, New Brunswick 2006, 1-59. • Iris Weiss, Jewish Disneyland: the appropriation and dispossession of “Jewishness”. Golem – European-Jewish magazine, vol. 3. o http://www.hagalil.com/golem/diaspora/disneyland-e.htm *Special assignment: • Charlotte Kahn, Resurgence of Jewish Life in Germany, Westport, CT, 2004. Thursday, October 15th – CHID 471b, Memory and Urban Space – Site Visit/Excursion • Time: 10:30am to 2pm • Destinations: Starting-point: entrance of Marienkirche/St. Mary’s, Rosenstr., Hackescher Markt, Barn Quarter, Grosse Hamburger Str., Oranienburger Str., New Synagogue-Centrum Judaicum *Topic: The Jewish Quarter? Spandauer Vorstadt between Jewish Revival and Jewish Disneyland Week 4 Monday, October 19th - Euro 494/CHID 471a, Bonn to Berlin ***Part II: LEGACIES OF EAST AND WEST • Time: 2pm to 4pm • Location: Hegelbau, Dorotheenstr. 24, Room 1.308 *Topic: dealing with the PAST *Abstract: The GDR harbored one of the most pervasive surveillance systems in the Eastern bloc. How did the dismantling of the Stasi system and the discoveries that were made in the process affect the transformation processes in the Neue Laender? Writer Christa Wolf published a highly controversial story about her own encounters with the Stasi in 1990. How did someone who in principle supported the GDR system deal with the experience of being under the Stasi’s watchful eyes? *Reading: Christa Wolf (1995), Selection from: What Remains, in: Wolf, What Remains and Other Stories, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Catherine Epstein (2004) “The Stasi: New Research on the East German Ministry of State Security”, in: Kritika, vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 321-348 (access via Project Muse). Dominic Boyer (2003) “Censorship as Vocation: the Institutions, Practices, and Cultural Logic of Media Control in the GDR”, in: Comparative Studies in society and History, Vol. 45, No.3, pp. 501-545 (access via JSTOR) Tuesday, October 20th – CHID 471b, Memory and Urban Space • Time: 2pm to 4pm • Location: Hegelbau, Dorotheenstr. 24, Room 1.308 *Topic: Virtual representations of Judaism: Paving the way for a new “Jewish Space”? *Reading Jeffrey Peck, Being Jewish in the New Germany, New Brunswick 2006, 60-85. James E. Young, At Memory’s Edge. After-Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture, New Haven 2000, chap. 4: Daniel Libeskind’s Jewish Museum in Berlin: the uncanny arts of memorial architecture, 90-119. *Special assignment: • Ruth Ellen Gruber, Virtually Jewish: Reinventing Jewish Culture in Europe. University of California Press, Berkeley 2002
 Wednesday, October 21st – Film – “THE LIVES OF OTHERS” – (WITH TIMO) • Time: 12 to 2pm • Location: Hegelbau, Dorotheenstr. 24, Room 1.308 Thursday, October 22nd – CHID 471b, Memory and Urban Space – Site Visit/Excursion • Time: 11am to 2pm • Destination: Jewish Museum Berlin *Topic: Staging Jewish culture in an architecture of trauma *Reading: • Noah Isenberg, Reading “Between the Lines”. In: Unlikely History, Leslie Morris and Jack Zipes (eds.), New York 2002, 155-179. • Susannah Reid, The Jewish Museum Berlin – a review (www.vl-museen.de/aus-rez/reid01-1.htm) *Special assignment: • Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Destination Culture, Berkeley 1998, Part 1, Exhibiting Jews, 79-130. Week 5 Sunday, October 25th - Soccer League-Game (1st Division): Hertha BSC Berlin – VFL Wolfsburg • Kick-off: 3:30pm • Location: Berlin Olympiastadion Olympischer Platz 3 14053 Berlin • Information: http://www.herthabsc.de/index.php?id=her_en Monday, October 26th - Euro 494/CHID 471a, Bonn to Berlin *Seminar discussion of “The Lives of Others” and of Jana Hensel’s book. • Time: 2pm to 4pm • Location: Hegelbau, Dorotheenstr. 24, Room 1.308 *Topic: twenty years after – Where is east and west? *Abstract: Two decades after the fall of the wall, East and West Germany still are divided by different economic outlooks, social conditions, and identities. East and West, so some commentators, are drifting apart and “ostalgia” defines our times. On the other hand, we have a Chancellor who grew up in East Germany and very mobile young Germans from the New Laender. Where are the demarcation lines for East/West today and how do they influence German identity? *Reading: • Jana Hensel (2008) After the Wall: Confessions from an East German Childhood and the Life That Came Next, Perseus. Tuesday, October 27th – CHID 471b, Memory and Urban Space • Time: 2pm to 4pm • Location: Hegelbau, Dorotheenstr. 24, Room 1.308 *Topic: Memory, Historiography, and National Identity *Reading Mary Fulbrook, German National Identity after the Holocaust, Cambridge 1999, 103-178. Alon Confino, Germany as a Culture of Remembrance: Promises and Limits of Writing History, Chapel Hill 2006, 170-213. Wednesday, October 28th - Euro 494/CHID 471a, Bonn to Berlin – Visitor/Guest Speaker • Time: 12 to 2pm • Location: Hegelbau, Dorotheenstr. 24, Room 1.308 *Guest: Christine Bergmann, former Deputy Mayor of Berlin and Senator for Labor in the first united Berlin government after unification. Thursday, October 29th – CHID 471b, Memory and Urban Space – Site Visit/Excursion • Time: 11am to 2pm • Destinations: Bavarian Quarter and Grunewald deportation site *Topic: City Districts and Decentralized Holocaust Commemoration *Reading: • Rudy Koshar, From Monuments to Traces, Berkeley 2000, chap. 4: Traces, 225-285. • Karen Till, The New Berlin, Minneapolis/London 2005, 155-160. Week 6 Monday, November 2nd - Euro 494/CHID 471a, Bonn to Berlin – Guided Tour *These two sessions (Nov 2nd and 4th) take place in reversed order for two groups of students • Time: 2pm to 4pm • Location: Hegelbau, Dorotheenstr. 24, Room 1.308 • Discussion: Berlin as metropolis/discussion of state of research projects *Topic: THE BERLIN ART SCENE: EAST, WEST, GLOBAL? *Abstract: Before the wall came down, East and West Berlin had already flourishing art scenes. In the 1990s, artists from all over the world were attracted by cheap artistic production space, cultural energy, and political support for the arts in Berlin. Dutch scholar, artist and “Wahlberliner” Hans Konings will take us in two groups on a tour of the new Berlin arts scene. *Reading: • Boris Gresillon (1999) “Berlin, cultural metropolis: Changes in the cultural geography of Berlin since reunification”, in: Cultural Geographies, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 284-294 (e-journal). • Roman Kraeussl (2007) The German Art Market, JEL Working Papers VU University Amsterdam (e-copy, pdf) Tuesday, November 3rd - CHID 471b, Memory and Urban Space • Time: 2pm to 4pm • Location: Hegelbau, Dorotheenstr. 24, Room 1.308 *Topic: Resurfacing Ruins: The Gestapo and SS headquarters *Reading Karen Till, The New Berlin, Minneapolis/London 2005, 63-152. *Information about the memorial institution at: www.topographie.de/en/index.htm . Wednesday, November 4th - Euro 494/CHID 471a, Bonn to Berlin – Guided Tour • Time: 12 to 2pm • Destination: Art scene Berlin/Brunnenstrasse *Topic: THE BERLIN ART SCENE: EAST, WEST, GLOBAL? * Abstract: Cont’d from Monday Thursday, November 5th – CHID 471b, Memory and Urban Space – Site Visit/Excursion • Time: 11am to 2pm • Destination: Memorial Topography of Terror *Topic: The “Address of Terror” Friday, November 6th – Classic Concert: Berliner Philharmoniker • Begin: 7:00pm • Location: Herbert-von-Karajan-Str. 1 10785 Berlin • Information: http://www.berlinerphilharmoniker.de/konzerte/kalender/programmdetails/konzert/7302/termin/2009-11-05-20-00/ Week 7 Monday, November 9th - Euro 494/CHID 471a, Bonn to Berlin - Guest Speaker *Guest lecture by Professor Juliane Karakayali, HUB, on migration politics in Germany and Berlin. • Time: 2pm to 4pm • Location: Hegelbau, Dorotheenstr. 24, Room 1.308 *Topic: CULTURES ON THE MARGINS: MIGRANTS IN BERLIN *Abstract: The realization that Germany is an “immigrant society” is only slowly penetrating the civic culture. Children of migrants attend advanced schools and universities at a much lower rate than German born children. Migrant communities in Kreuzberg and Neukoelln are confronting high youth unemployment and the danger of ghettoization. How is Berlin dealing with its migrant communities? *Reading: • Simon Green et al. (2008) The Politics of the New Germany, ch. 6 • Sabine Mannitz (2003) “Turkish Youths in Berlin: Transnational Identification and Double Agenc”, in: New Perspectives on Turkey, Nr. 28/9, pp. 85-106. • Barbara Franz (2007) “Europe’s Muslim Youth: An Inquiry into the Politics of Discrimination, Relative Deprivation, and Identity Formation”, In: Mediterranean Quarterly,Vpl. 18, No. 1, pp. 89-112 (access via Project Muse) ***Evening: • Domino Action between Brandenburg Gate and Potsdamer Platz. • Free Concert of the Berlin Philharmonic Tuesday, November 10th - CHID 471b, Memory and Urban Space • Time: 2pm to 4pm • Location: Hegelbau, Dorotheenstr. 24, Room 1.308 *Topic: Competing memories, conflicting uses of history: Concentration Camp Memorials *Reading: • Information about the Sachsenhausen memorial at: www.stiftung-bg.de/gums/en/index.htm • Sarah Farmer, Symbols that face two ways: Commemorating the victims of Nazism and Stalinism at Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen. Representations 49 (1995), 97-119. • Claudia Koonz, Between Memory and Oblivion: Concentration Camps in German Memory. In: Commemorations. The Politics of National Identity, ed. John Gillis, Princeton 1994, 258-280. • Mary Fulbrook, German National Identity after the Holocaust, Cambridge 1999, 25-47. *Special Assignment: • Dan Diner, On the Ideology of Antifascism. New German Critique 67 (1996), 123-132. Wednesday, November 11th - Euro 494/CHID 471a, Bonn to Berlin – Site Visit to Berlin Neukoelln • Time: Tentatively,12 to 2pm (T.B.D.) • Destination: Neukoelln: Citizen Foundation *Our Guide: President of Neukoelln Citizen Foundation and Governor’s Office member Friedemann Walther. Thursday, November 12th – CHID 471b, Memory and Urban Space – Site Visit/Excursion • Time: 8am to 12 • Destination: Oranienburg *Topic: The Sachsenhausen concentration camp memorial *Reading: • Information about the Sachsenhausen memorial at: www.stiftung-bg.de/gums/en/index.htm *Special assignment: • Harold Marcuse, Legacies of Dachau. The Uses and Abuses of a Concentration Camp, 1933-2001, Cambridge 2001. Week 8 Monday, November 16th - Euro 494/CHID 471a, Bonn to Berlin • Time: 2pm to 4pm • Location: Hegelbau, Dorotheenstr. 24, Room 1.308 *Topic: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CHALLENGES *Abstract: The ‘Modell Deutschland’ has traditionally involved corporatist decision making, powerful unions and employers’ associations as well as a strong social welfare state. After unification, high unemployment and collapses of whole industries in the Neue Laender resulted in increasing worries about the slow erosion or even active dismantling of the welfare state. How does the unified Germany cope with the economic and social restructuring processes and how do they relate to Europeanisation? *Reading: • Simon Green et al. (2008) The Politics of the New Germany, ch. 7 & 8 • “Waiting for a Wunder: A Survey of Germany”. Economist, February 11, 2006: 3-16. (e-copy) Tuesday, November 17th - CHID 471b, Memory and Urban Space • Time: 2pm to 4pm • Location: Hegelbau, Dorotheenstr. 24, Room 1.308 *Topic: The coordination of genocide in suburban exclusivity: the Wannsee Conference *Reading: • Mark Roseman, The Wannsee Conference and the Final Solution – a Reevaluation, 2002, 79-140. • Information about the memorial and the conference: http://www.ghwk.de/engl/kopfengl.htm Wednesday, November 18th - Euro 494/CHID 471a, Bonn to Berlin – Guest Speaker *Guest Speaker: Martin Kempe, Co-founder of the taz, former Communication Director for Ver.di Germany (to be finalized) • Time: 12 to 2pm • Location: Hegelbau, Dorotheenstr. 24, Room 1.308 Thursday, November 19th – CHID 471b, Memory and Urban Space – Site Visit/Excursion • Time: 9am to 12 • Destination: The House of the Wannsee conference and the Liebermann-Villa *Topic: The Sachsenhausen concentration camp memorial *Special Assignment: • Introduction to the famous German-Jewish painter and his summer residence: ♣ www.max-liebermann.de/en/(S(g3ygxr452x4zswyt04t1lq55))/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabID=1 Thursday, November 19th – Opera “La Boheme”: Staatsoper unter den Linden • Begin: 7:30pm • Location: Unter den Linden 7 10117 Berlin • Information: http://www.staatsoper-berlin.org/en_EN/calendar/5059436 Friday through Sunday, November 20th-22nd: Field Trip to Munich - (Program to be finalized) Week 9 Monday, November 23rd - Euro 494/CHID 471a, Bonn to Berlin • Time: 2pm to 4pm • Location: Hegelbau, Dorotheenstr. 24, Room 1.308 *Topic: Gendered societies? *Abstract: Women from the former GDR have lost jobs disproportionately as a result of economic restructuring and many are employed below their qualification. Child care facilities have broken away, and stress on families has increased. On the other hand, Berlin has developed one of the most progressive gender policies in Germany and the state is active in combating discrimination and fostering active integration of women into society and the economy. How do women fare in 2009, and are there still differences between East and West? *Reading: Sabine Lang (2002), Unifying a Gendered State: Women in Post-1989 Germany, in: Stuart Taberner/Frank Finlay (eds.), Recasting German Identity. Culture, Politics, and Literature in the Berlin Republic, London: Camden House, pp. 157 - 170. Susan B. Rottmann/Myra Marx Ferree (2009) “Citizenship and Intersectionality: German Feminist Debates about Headscarf and Antidiscrimination Laws”, in: Social Politics, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp.481-513 (access via Jstor). Brigitte Young, Triumph of the Fatherland, ch. 4: “A Closed Opportunity Structure: German Unification and ‘Double Gender Marginalization’”. Tuesday, November 24th - CHID 471b, Memory and Urban Space • Time: 2pm to 4pm • Location: Hegelbau, Dorotheenstr. 24, Room 1.308 *Topic: Cognitive versus Emotional, Public versus Private Memory *Reading: • Harald Welzer, Grandpa Wasn’t a Nazi: The Holocaust in Germany Family Remembrance, Washington, DC, 2005. • www.memory-research.de/cms/download.php?id=2 Wednesday, November 25th - Euro 494/CHID 471a, Bonn to Berlin – Guest Speaker • Time: Tentatively,12 to 2pm • Destination: (T.B.D.) *Guest Speaker: Helga Hentschel, Head of Department of Women’s Issues in Berlin. Thursday, November 26th – CHID 471b, Memory and Urban Space – Site Visit/Excursion • Time: 10am to 12 • Destination: The Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe *Topic: Premature closure or unique gesture of historical responsibility? *Reading: • James E. Young,. At Memory’s Edge. After-Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture, chap. 7: Germany’s Holocaust Memorial Problem – and mine, 184-223. • Karen Till, The New Berlin, Minneapolis/London 2005, 161-188. *Special Assignment: • Peter Carrier, Holocaust Monuments and National Memory Cultures since 1989, New York 2005, 99-170. Week 10 Monday, November 30th - Euro 494/CHID 471a, Bonn to Berlin • Time: 2pm to 4pm • Location: Hegelbau, Dorotheenstr. 24, Room 1.308 *Topic: foreign and security policy *Abstract: With unification, the quest for the “normalization” of Germany’s foreign policy gained new momentum. Public opinion polls show that Germans are reluctant to involve themselves internationally, specifically with military means, but also as political power players. Why is that so? Should it, can it change? Political commentators increasingly challenge Germany to abandon its image of “economic giant, political dwarf”. Should Germans assert themselves more in international relations? *Reading: Simon Green et al. (2008) The Politics of the New Germany, ch. 9 & 10 James Sperling (2003) “The Foreign Policy of the Berlin Republic. The Very Model of a Postmodern Major Power? A Review Essay”, in: German Politics 12,3, pp. 1-34. (e-copy) Roger Cohen (2007) “Time for Some ‘Bundesmacht’”, in International Herald Tribune, Oct, 25. (e-copy) Tuesday, December 1st - CHID 471b, Memory and Urban Space • Time: 2pm to 4pm • Location: Hegelbau, Dorotheenstr. 24, Room 1.308 *Topic: who is a resistance fighter? *Reading: • David J. Case, The Politics of Memorial Representation: The Controversy over the German Resistance Museum in 1994. German Politics and Society 16 (1991), 58-81. • Material on the web about “Operation Valkyrie” and other Stauffenberg movies. Wednesday, December 2nd – Euro 494/CHID 471a, Bonn to Berlin – Site Visit/Excursion • Time: Tentatively, 12 to 2pm • Destination: Social Democratic Party Willy Brandt Haus Thursday, December 3rd – CHID 471b, Memory and Urban Space – Site Visit/Excursion • Time: 9am to 11am • Destinations: Memorial Museum for the German Resistance, Bendlerblock and the Memorial for the “Euthanasia”-killings *Topic: german victims, german heroes Week 11 Sunday, December 6th - Guided Tour exhibition of Contemporary Art: Boros Bunker • Begin: Two groups (1) 11:30am, (2) 1pm • Location: Bunker, Reinhardstr. 20 10117 Berlin • Information: http://www.sammlung-boros.de/index.php?id=1350&L=1 Monday, December 7th - Euro 494/CHID 471a, Bonn to Berlin • Time: 2pm to 4pm • Location: Hegelbau, Dorotheenstr. 24, Room 1.308 *Topic: germany: twenty years after • Summary • Project Presentations Tuesday, December 8th - CHID 471b, Memory and Urban Space • Time: 2pm to 4pm • Location: Hegelbau, Dorotheenstr. 24, Room 1.308 *Topic: globalization, americanization, personalization? *Reading: • Andrew Gross, Holocaust Tourism in Berlin. Journeys 7, 73-100. • Tim Cole, Selling the Holocaust. From Auschwitz to Schindler. How history is bought, packaged, and sold. New York 2000, 146-188. • Alan Confino, Germany as a Culture of Remembrance: Promises and Limits of Writing History, Chapel Hill 2006, 235-254. Wednesday, December 9th - Euro 494, Bonn to Berlin • Time: 12 to 2pm • Location: Hegelbau, Dorotheenstr. 24, Room 1.308 *Topic: germany: twenty years after • Summary • Project Presentations • Dinner Wednesday, December 9th - Piano Concert/Performance: Radialsystem Berlin • Begin: 6pm • Location: Holzmarktstr. 33 10243 Berlin • Information: http://www.radialsystem.de/rebrush/en/rs-programme-detailansicht.php?id=394 *Wednesday evening after Radialsystem: GOOD BYE DINNER • Location TBD Thursday, December 10th - CHID 471b, Memory and Urban Space • Time: 9am to 11am • Location: Hegelbau, Dorotheenstr. 24, Room 1.308 *Topic: concluding discussion http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~caforum/volume4/pdf/confino.pdfhttp://www.hausderdemokratie.dehttp://www.hagalil.com/golem/diaspora/disneyland-e.htmhttp://www.vl-museen.de/aus-rez/reid01-1.htmhttp://www.herthabsc.de/index.php?id=her_enhttp://www.topographie.de/en/index.htmhttp://www.berlinerphilharmoniker.de/konzerte/kalender/programmdetails/konzert/7302/termin/2009-11-05-20-00/http://www.stiftung-bg.de/gums/en/index.htmhttp://www.stiftung-bg.de/gums/en/index.htmhttp://www.ghwk.de/engl/kopfengl.htmhttp://www.max-liebermann.de/en/(S(g3ygxr452x4zswyt04t1lq55))/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabID=1http://www.staatsoper-berlin.org/en_EN/calendar/5059436http://www.memory-research.de/cms/download.php?id=2http://www.sammlung-boros.de/index.php?id=1350&L=1http://www.radialsystem.de/rebrush/en/rs-programme-detailansicht.php?id=394shapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1shapeimage_2_link_2shapeimage_2_link_3shapeimage_2_link_4shapeimage_2_link_5shapeimage_2_link_6shapeimage_2_link_7shapeimage_2_link_8shapeimage_2_link_9shapeimage_2_link_10shapeimage_2_link_11shapeimage_2_link_12shapeimage_2_link_13shapeimage_2_link_14
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