Summer Program Preview

Here is a preview of the summer program. The sequence of events is still being determined, but this will give you an idea of the talks and excursions!

Program Introduction, Tour Humboldt, tour of city centers, tour of area around apartments

Memorial Sites of Berlin
The representations of commemoration
- Holocaust Memorial
- Soviet War Memorial and Military Cemetery in Berlin's Treptower Park
- Topographie des Terrors (Topography of Terror). Talk by Tobias Temme.
Remains of Nazi secret police torture chamber.

-vist to Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial

Former Wall Walk
Visibility and Invisibility of History.
- A walk along the former wall of Berlin through the districts of Kreuzberg and Friedrichhain.

Surveillance
Former Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (Ministry for State Security Now Stasi Museum)
As an introduction to the topic: Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives Of Others)

Talk with the Berlin artist Andreas Paeslack, who published the book: Das Vermögen der Kunst (The Means of Art) in 2008.

Talk with the Berlin artist Claire Waffel about her work as a photographer and her life in Berlin.

Consumerism
Guided tour in Germany’s biggest department store KaDeWe (Kaufhaus des Westens)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KaDeWe)

Berlin from Underneath: Bunkers and Tunnels.
Subway tunnels, the arteries of Berlin. Bunkers, hidden places - a tour through bunkers from the Cold War and Second World War.

Narratives of a city’s history.
An actor will tell the most outrages stories of some well known buildings in the center of Berlin. They are not true but will the audience believe it? Questions of how we perceive information and whether we are willing to question them or not will be discussed.

Tropical Islands Entertainment Center
Located just outside of Berlin, Tropical Islands is the largest free standing building in Europe.
A former cargo lifter hall filed bankruptcy and became an indoor water park and entertainment center.

Berlin, as a literary center:
Walter Benjamin: Berlin Childhood around 1900
(http://www.amazon.com/Berlin-Childhood-around-Walter-Benjamin/dp/067402222X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1209728872&sr=8-1)
Joseph Roth: What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-1933
(http://www.amazon.com/What-Saw-Reports-Berlin-1920-1933/dp/0393325822/ref=pd_bbs_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1209729021&sr=8-4)

Film in Berlin
Field-trip to Babelsberg Film Studios, Potsdam: From “Metropolis” to “Valkyrie”

PD Dr. Reinhard Isensee, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: “Transatlantic perspectives on education.”

Theater in Berlin
- The Admiralspalast (Admiral-Palace)
- Talk with Prof. Rhys Martin, at the Art Academy (UdK, Universität der Künste, Berlin) of Berlin about his Musical course.

Requested: Meeting with Member of the German Parliament Mr. Sebastian Edathy, Social Democrats. Expert on Neo-Nazism.
(http://www.bundestag.de/htdocs_e/committees/a04/index.html)

Science in Berlin: the cutting edge of neuroscience.
Prof. Dr. John-Dylan Haynes, Humboldt-Universtät zu Berlin, Charité on “thought reading” and the question of the free will.
(http://www.bccn-berlin.de/People/haynes)

Fieldtrip to Potsdam: Sanssouci: Staged architecture of the 18th century.

Jewish Berlin past and present.
From the old Jewish quarters to modern Jewish life in Berlin.

GLBTQ Berlin
The history of gay life in Berlin and Germany.
http://www.glbtq.com/arts/schwules_museum.html

Turkish Life in Berlin
Youth culture, mosques, and Turkish soccer clubs in Berlin.