Iran and the Threat of Nuclear Proliferation: German, Israeli, and American Responses
Keynote Lecture:Kosta Tsipis, Director, Program in Science and Technology for International Security, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Panelists:
Dr. rer. pol. Oliver Thränert, Researcher, German Institute for International and Security Affairs
Author of Preventing the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (1999)
Ariel Levite, Principal Deputy Director General (Policy),
Israel Atomic Energy Commission
Co-Editor of Arms Control and the New Middle East Security Environment (1994)
Matthew Bunn, Senior Research Associate, Assistant Director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program,
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University
Author of Securing Nuclear Weapons and Materials: Seven Steps for Immediate Action (2003)
Moderator:
George Ross, Morris Hillquit Professor of Labor and Social Thought,
and Director, Center for German and European Studies, Brandeis University
Thursday, November 18, 2004
6-8pm
Hassenfeld Conference Center: Levine-Ross
A Light Buffet Dinner will be served.
DR. KOSTA TSIPIS was born in Athens, Greece in 1934. After completing secondary education in Athens College from 1943 to 1953, he came to the United States, where he received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering in 1958 and his M.Sc. in Atomic Physics in 1960 from Rutgers University. He received his Ph.D. in high energy physics from Columbia University in 1966. Since then he has been at M.I.T., first in the Physics department and since 1983 as Director of the Program in Science and Technology for International Security, which he co-founded in 1978.
Dr. Tsipis is a fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the New York Academy of Sciences. He received the American Physical Society Szilard Award in 1984, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
He served on numerous Boards of Directors, such as the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Council for a Livable World, Lawyers Alliance for World Security, and Peace Research and European Security Institute in Stuttgart, Germany. Dr. Tsipis served as science advisor to institutions such as SIPRI, World Council for Churches, Council on Economic Priorities, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and others. He has served as advisor and consultant to the Greek and French governments and to private firms.
Dr. Tsipis has written seven books, edited nine, and contributed chapters to thirty-eight others. His contributions to high energy physics and nuclear arms control research include twenty-seven research reports, sixty-three research articles, and over thirty newspaper articles and Op Eds. He has lectured worldwide, averaging about twenty lectures per year.
Dr. Tsipis' major contributions have been in the physics of nuclear weapons and nuclear war, the physics and technology of directed energy weapons, antisubmarine warfare, verification technologies, and technology and public policy in the area of national security. He has trained numerous students at M.I.T. in these topics and in problems of space policy and technology both at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
DR. RER. POL. OLIVER THRÄNERT, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, is the director of the research group on political security studies. 1986-2001 Referat Internationale Politikanalyse der Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung in Bonn (1986-1999) und Berlin (1999-2001) Forschungsfelder: Weiterverbreitung von atomaren, biologischen und chemischen Waffen; internationale Rüstungskontrollregime; internationale Nichtverbreitungspolitik; Raketenabwehr.
MATTHEW BUNN is a Senior Research Associate in the Project on Managing the Atom in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. His current research interests include nuclear theft and terrorism; security for weapons-usable nuclear material in the former Soviet Union and worldwide; verification of nuclear stockpiles and of nuclear warhead dismantlement; disposition of excess plutonium; conversion in Russia's nuclear cities; and nuclear waste storage, disposal, and reprocessing.
Before joining the Kennedy School in January 1997, he served for three years as an adviser to the Office of Science and Technol ogy Policy, where he played a major role in U.S. policies related to the control and disposition of weapons-usable nuclear materials in the U.S. and the former Soviet Union, and directed a secret study for President Clinton on security for nuclear materials in Russia. Previously, Bunn was at the National Academy of Sciences, where he directed the two-volume study Management and Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium. He is a consultant to the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a member of the Russian-American Nuclear Security Advisory Council, an organization devoted to promoting nuclear security cooperation between the United States and Russia, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Arms Control Association.
Bunn is the author or co-author of several books and book-length technical reports, and dozens of articles in magazines and newspapers including Foreign Policy, Scientific American, Science, Technology Review, Annual Review of Energy and the Environment, Arms Control Today, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and The Washington Post, and appears regularly on television and radio. Bunn received his bachelors' and masters' degrees in political science, specializing in defense and arms control, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985.
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Junge ost-deutsche Autoren: Luncheon and Reading with Jakob Hein
Formen menschlichen Zusammenlebens. Erzählungen. (2003)Thursday, November 11, 2004
12noon
Faculty Club Lounge
RSVP FOR THIS EVENT TO european@brandeis.edu OR PHONE (781) 763-3200
JAKOB HEIN, born in Leipzig in 1971, is a pediatric psychiatrist at the famous Berlin hospital 'Charite.' He is the son of author Christoph Hein and documentary filmmaker Christiane Hein.
über 'Formen menschlichen Zusammenlebens':
Jeden Tag Pistolenschüsse und Breakdance, mit komplizierten, blassen und wunderschönen Frauen im gelben Taxi ins Waldorf fahren. Das ist New York. Und genau dahin wollte Jakob Hein schon mit zwölf, als er noch mit der Taschenlampe unter der Bettdecke gelesen hat. Daran kann ihn auch die knisternde Nylonunterwäsche seiner ersten Flamme nicht hindern. Ausserdem sieht er jetzt auch Phoebe jeden Tag, im Cupcake Cafe in der 9ten Avenue, mit ihren langen braunen Haaren und dem wilden Kussmund. Aberdie Liebesregeln im Land der unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten sind noch komplizierter als die Frauen selbst. Nach seinem hinreissenden Debüt "Mein erstes T-Shirt" zieht es Jakob Hein in die Neue Welt. Und von New York bis San Francisco studiert er Formen menschlichen Zusammenlebens.
"Jakob Hein is a vacuum cleaner. He consistently and diligently sucks up everything he sees around him, and transforms the reality of himself and others into perfect, 2-page stories that are written in pleasant, easy language." (Wladimir Kaminer)
Jewish-German Dialogue Commemorating 'Kristallnacht'
Tuesday, November 9, 20046pm
Rapaporte Treasure Hall
Junge ost-deutsche Autoren: Luncheon and Reading with Jana Hensel
Zonenkinder (2002)Thursday, November 4, 2004
12noon
Faculty Club Lounge
RSVP FOR THIS EVENT TO european@brandeis.edu OR PHONE (781) 763-3200
JANA HENSEL was born in Leipzig, GDR, in 1976. She studied in Leipzig, Marseille, Berlin, and Paris. She is currently a journalist for 'Der Spiegel,' living in Berlin.
From the cover of 'Zonenkinder':
"Jana Hensel was thirteen when the wall fell. From one day to the next her childhood ended. "Timurtrupp", "Milchgeldkassierer", "Korbine Früchtchen" or the >>Trommel<<: The familiar things of GDR-everyday life disappeared seemingly over night--and an adventure began. Suddenly the West was everywhere, the border open, history, too. Caught by freedom, an entire generation set out to discover the changing country."
"Jana Hensel has set a monument for the children of the 'Sector', the first united German generation." (Reinhard Mohr, DER SPIEGEL 07.10.2002)
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The New Anti-Americanism: Does America need Europe? Does Europe need America?
With Franziska Augstein, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and Kevin Cullen, Boston GlobeWednesday, October 27, 2004
6-8pm
Rapaporte Treasure Hall in the Goldfarb library
In cooperation with the Goethe-Institute, Boston
FRANZISKA AUGSTEIN begann ihre journalistische Arbeit 1987 als Redakteurin beim Magazin der Wochenzeitung "Die Zeit" in Hamburg. Sie studierte Geschichte und Philosophie und promovierte 1996 in London mit einer Arbeit über die Heraufkunft der Rassentheorien zwischen 1800 und 1850. Von 1997 bis 2001 arbeitete die gebürtige Hamburgerin im Feuilleton-Ressort der FAZ, seit Anfang 2000 als Feuilleton-Korrespondentin in Berlin. Anfang 2001 wechselte sie zur Süddeutschen Zeitung nach München.
KEVIN CULLEN has been a Globe reporter for 17 years. He has worked as the newspaper's law enforcement reporter, legal affairs correspondent, has been a reporter-at-large, and wrote a column about city life for two years. He also has covered the conflict in Northern Ireland for more than 15 years.
Cullen was part of the Spotlight Team that in 1988 first exposed the relationship between the Boston FBI and notorious gangster James "Whitey" Bulger.
In 1997 Cullen moved to Ireland to open the Globe's Dublin bureau and was the only staff reporter for an American newspaper to cover the Irish peace process full-time in the year leading up to the Good Friday Agreement. In 1998 he was appointed the Globe's London bureau chief and European correspondent, and spent much of the next three years in the Balkans, covering the war in the former Yugoslavia.
Since returning from London last summer, Cullen has covered the fallout from the Sept. 11 attacks and the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic church. He won the Livingston Award for local reporting for a portrait of a Boston hoodlum and the Overseas Press Club of America's citation of excellence in interpretive reporting for his coverage of Northern Ireland.
Cullen was born in Boston, grew up in Malden and attended Trinity College in Dublin before graduating summa cum laude from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He has been named a Nieman Fellow and is currently spending year of study at Harvard University, concentrating on international human rights law.
Annual Lecture in European Cultural Studies: Allen E. Shawn (Bennington College) Tradition and Change: A Sense of the Uncanny in Schoenberg's "Six Little Pieces, op. 19"
Monday, October 25, 20044pm
Rapaporte Treasure Hall
In cooperation with CGES
Jewish-German Dialogue with Dr. Arthur Obermayer
Tuesday, October 19, 20046pm
Rapaporte Treasure Hall
http://www.obermayer.us/award/
DR. ARTHUR OBERMAYER is a high-tech entrepreneur in the Boston area who has been involved in many philanthropic activities. He is an officer and board member of the American Jewish Historical Society, chaired the Genealogical Task Force of the Center for Jewish History, started a Jewish museum in his ancestral German town of Creglingen, was on the board of the internet genealogy supersite JewishGen, and initiated its German component.
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Visit of the German Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger
Tuesday, October 12, 200412noon
Alumni Lounge, Usdan
RSVP FOR FESTIVE LUNCHEON TO european@brandeis.edu OR PHONE (781) 763-3200
WOLFGANG ISCHINGER, German Ambassador to the United States of America since July 31, 2001, was born in 1946 near Stuttgart in southern Germany and joined the German Foreign Service in 1975 with German law degree and a a master's degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He worked at the UN in New York and was posted to Washington, D.C., and to Paris. In Bonn, he served as special assistant to Foreign Ministers Genscher and Kinkel. From 1993 to 1998, Ambassador Ischinger served in various senior positions in the Foreign Ministry where he led the German delegations to a number of international negotiating processes, including the Bosnia Peace Talks at Dayton, Ohio, the negotiations concerning the NATO-Russia Founding Act, as well as the negotiations on NATO enlargement and on the Kosovo crisis. From 1998 to 2001, Wolfgang Ischinger served as State Secretary, the highest civil service post, in the German Foreign Office.
Mr. Ischinger has published widely on foreign policy, security and arms control policy as well as on European and transatlantic issues.
He serves on several non-profit boards, including the Board of Overseers of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, the East-West Institute in New York, the Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft, Frankfurt, the Council on Public Policy, and AFS Germany (American Field Service). He is also Chairman of the Ambassadors Advisory Board of the Executive Council on Diplomacy in Washington, D.C.
Ambassador Ischinger who arrived in Washington, D.C., a few days before 9/11 2001 will analyze the state of the transatlantic relationship on the eve of U.S. presidential elections. He will discuss European/German expectations regarding international cooperation and multilateral institutions as the transatlantic community moves into the next phase of the fight against international terrorism, against the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and other challenges such as climate change and the global HIV/Aids crisis.
Luncheon and Talk with Christian Schäfer, DAAD, Bonn
Wednesday, September 29, 200412noon
Faculty Club Lounge
RSVP FOR THIS EVENT TO european@brandeis.edu OR PHONE (781) 763-3200
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Brandeis German Film Evenings - Fall 2004
Every Second Wednesday of the Month at 6:30pm in Shiffman 201 with Pizza!
Wednesday, September 8, 2004
DAS WUNDER VON BERN (2004; 118 Minutes)
(Director: Sönke Wortman 'Der bewegte Mann' [Maybe, Maybe not])
In German with English subtitles
Wednesday, October 13, 2004
ANATOMIE 2 (2003; 97 Minutes)
(With Franka Potente 'Lola Rennt')
In German with English subtitles
Wednesday, November 10, 2004
COMEDIAN HARMONISTS (1997; 110 Minutes)
(Director: Joseph Vilsmaier. With Ben Becker) In German with English subtitles
Wednesday, December 8, 2004
DER SCHUH DES MANITU (2001; 90 Minutes)
('Winnetou'-Parody. Director: Micheal 'Bully' Herbig)
In German
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Special Fall 2004 Film Series
IMAGINARY WITNESSES: Hollywood and European Directors focus on the Holocaust
All films will be screened in the Wasserman Cinematheque, Sachar Center
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Free admission (donations will not be refused) and free parking
Please note that there is no reserved seating
for more information call (781) 736-8600
Sunday, October 17, 4PM
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood And The Holocaust
Special guest filmmaker Dan Anker
Thursday, October 21, 7 PM
Garden of the Finzi Continis
Introduced by Alice Kelikian, Associate Professor of History, Brandeis University
Sunday, October 24, 4 PM
Europa Europa (Hitlerjunge Salomon)
Special guest filmmaker Agnieszka Holland
Sunday, October 31, 4 PM
A Love In Germany (Eine Liebe In Deutschland)
Thursday, November 4, 7 PM
Hanussen
Sunday, November 7, 4 PM
Angry Harvest (Bittere Ernte)
Thursday, November 11, 7 PM
Witness Out Of Hell (Zeugin Aus Der Hölle)
Sunday, November 14, 4 PM
Charlotte S.
Tuesday, November 16, 7 PM
In Search of Jewish Amsterdam
Guest filmmaker and co-authors Philo Bregstein and Salvador Bloemgarten
Thursday, November 18, 7 PM
The Rose Garden (Der Rosengarten)
For detailed information about all film events, please visit The National Center for Jewish Film.
Presented by:
- The National Center for Jewish Film
- Goethe-Institute Boston
- Brandeis University
- The Wasserman Fund
- The Center for German and European Studies
- The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry
- The Film Studies Program
- Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Department
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Spring 2004
Why is the Reform of Continental Welfare States so Difficult? The German Case in Comparative Perspective
Workshop
in cooperation with the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University
FRIDAY, MAY 7
2:15-5:00 pm
Cabot Room, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Participants:
Anke Hassel
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne
Andrew Marti
Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Paul Pierson
Professor of Government, Harvard University
George Ross
Professor of Politics and Sociology, Brandeis University
Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Stephen Silvia
Professor of Political Science, American University
Combining an export powerhouse with a generous welfare state and highly regulated labor market, Modell Deutschland was hailed in the 1980s as a paragon of "social capitalism"; today Germany's "continental" welfare state is widely blamed for making Germany the economic sick man of Europe. Yet social policy and labor market reforms initiated in the name of renewed economic growth have been largely blocked. Public figures, academics, and the media typically explain this stalemate or reformstau – with caricatures of market-phobic, stodgy, old-fashioned, and unrealistic unions, workers, and beneficiaries of cushy social services. Opponents of the reform initiatives deny that Germany's welfare state is the main source of its economic stagnation and that the proposed reforms will open the door – now or not far in the future– to dismantling Germany’s social policy architecture. The workshop, organized jointly by the Center for European Studies at Harvard University and the Center for German and European Studies at Brandeis University, will draw on discussion of the politics of social policy and labor-market reform in Germany to raise broader questions about the pressures and possibilities for change in continental welfare states more generally. These questions will be framed from the analytic perspective provided by Paul Pierson's landmark book, Dismantling the Welfare State? On the politics of retrenchment in the US and UK in the 1980s, whose perspective for understanding the politics of welfare reform or retrenchment continental social models will be reconsidered in the light of questions such as the following:
- What role has German unification played in the troubles of Modell Deutschland?
- What role has economic policy in the Economic and Monetary Union played in Germany's economic stagnation?
- What features of the German social model are most open to criticism on economic efficiency or social equity grounds?
- Is the German "variety of capitalism" particularly impermeable to change?
- What roles have partisan politics and the institutions of German federalism played in making reform difficult?
- What does the politics of German social policy reform imply about social democracy and its prospects in other continental European countries?
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Russian-jewish Diaspora After the Cold War: A Transnational Community in the Making?
April 21-22, 2004
9am-5pm
Conference Room C, Usdan, Brandeis University
Russian Jews have been permitted to leave their countries of origin without restriction since 1989/90, nourishing a "great exodus": Approximately one million Jewish citizens from the former Soviet Union have emigrated to Israel during the last 12 years, more than 300.000 to the United States and an additional 185.000 to Germany. Tens of thousands Russian Jews have also settled to Canada and Australia. Sociologists have created the term "Transnational Diaspora" for this phenomenon, and the strong cultural self-assertion of Russian Jewish immigrants in the respective host countries - combined with their intensive cross-border contacts - has led to the idea of the "Transnational Jewish Community".
PROGRAM:
Wednesday, April 21st 20049:30 am
Welcome
George Ross, Director Center for German and European Studies at Brandeis University
9:45 am
Zvi Gitelman, Michigan State University,(Keynote Lecture):
Vayisâ€u vayahanu [And they travelled and they encamped]:The Nature
and Consequences of Soviet/Post-Soviet Jewish Migration
10:45am
Olaf Gloeckner, Moses-Mendelssohn-Zentrum, Potsdam, Germany:
Studying Russian Jewish Emigration and Transnational Diaspora after the Cold War: new perspectives and
new challenges
12:00 pm BUFFET LUNCHEON
1:15 pm
Larissa Remennick, Bar-Ilan University, Tel Aviv:
Former Soviet Jews in Israel between Integration and Separatism
2:15 pm
Paul Harris, Augusta State University:
Networks and support for
newly arrived Russian-Jewish émigrés in the United States
3:15 pm COFFEE BREAK
3:30 pm
Closed session of the scholars
Perspectives of Research on Russian Jewish emigration
5:30 pm DINNER
7:00 pm
Peter Laufer and Jeff Kamen: Exodus to Berlin
[Film Screening and Discussion;Wasserman Cinematheque] Thursday, April 22nd 2004
9:30 am
Leonid Finberg (Director of the Institute of Judaic Studies, Kiev):
Jewish Life and Jewish Communities in the
Ukraine today
10:30 am
Y. Michal Bodemann, (University of Toronto / Berlin):
The German Jewish Communities and the new Russian Jewish writers
11:30 am
Rina Cohen (York University, Toronto):
Layered Identities: Former Soviet Union Jews in Toronto
12:30pm LUNCHEON
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SPRING CONCERT
Friday, April 16
12pm-1pm
Rapaporte Treasure Hall
Refreshments will be served after the concert.
with works by W.A.Mozart, J.S.Bach, Alban Berg, Bohuslav Martinu, Claude Debussy
Featuring: Friederike Roth, Clarinet
Isabelle Pourkat, Piano
Isabelle Pourkat was born in 1977 in Metz(France) and received her first piano lessons at age 4. From 1987 to 1993 she studied at the Conservatory in Nancy and completed her studies with "premiere medaille." She continued her studies with Jean-Luis Haguenauer in Strasbourg where she won the "premier prix de piano". After one year at the Conservatory in Paris she moved in 1998 to the Hochschule for Music in Cologne, Germany. She studied with Professors Lobanov and Merle and received her diploma in 2003. Since then she has taken masterclasses with, among others, Jean Fassina, Igor Laszko, Theodor Paraskivesko and Cristian Beldi. Friederike Roth was born in 1982 in Bernkastel-Kues and began her musical education first at the piano. She received her first instruction in clarinet at the age of seven. In 1997 she won second Prize in the Karel-Kunc competition in Karlsruhe, and in 2000 first Prize in the federal competition "Jugend Musiziert". She was the leading clarinet at the state youth orchestra of Rheinland-Pfalz and at the Bundesjugendorchester und attended Master Classes with Profs Steffens, Brunner and Manno. Since 2001 she is at the Musikhochschule Koeln in the class of Prof. Ralph Manno.
The Wrapped Reichstag
Wednesday, February 25, 2004
7:00pm
Wasserman Cinematheque, Brandeis University
The wrapping of the Reichstag in 1995 marked the phenomenal ending for an artistic project which had hovered in the utopian world of the possible and impossible for more than two decades. More than five million visitors, a once in a-lifetime event for Berlin, convincing proof of what art can still achieve today: visionary thinking as a gigantic, quickly transitory manifestation, art as a public festival, a media spectacle, the catalyst for a rare passionate political and aesthetic debate. The most dramatic and moving moments, the foolhardiness of the enterprise, the joy reflected in the eyes of the artists and the visitors. The film shows art as being a spectacle born of the archaic and of timeless beauty and fascination.
Women in Academia
A Comparison between Germany, US
March 1
Time: 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Hassenfeld Conference Center
The workshop will revolve around questions concerning the differences and similarities in female scholars' success and "survival strategies" in a male-dominated environment such as a research university. With very different systems of higher education in place, the German-American Comparison should cast some light on, among other things, the question if public or private institutions of higher learning can foster women scientists' careers better.
Panelists include Gladys Brown (Associate Director for the Office of Women in Higher Education at the American Council on Education), Gesine Schwan (President, University of Frankfurt/Oder), Andrea Loether (Competence Center for Women in Research and Science, Cologne) and Angela Perez (Romance and Comparative Literature, Brandeis).
ScheduleBrandeis in Berlin
Info Session
March 2
4:00pm
Shiffman 219
Margarethe von Trotta Retrospective
March 5 - March 7
Friday, March 5
Film:7:45pm The Other Woman (2003)Museum of Fine Arts Boston
The Other Woman by Margarethe von Trotta (Die andere frau, Germany, 2004, 90 min.). One of the foremost women directors in Europe, veteran filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta frequently explores the predicament of women with philandering husbands from a female perspective. Visually strong and engaging, The Other Woman is the story of Ivonne, one such wife, who receives a letter from imprisoned stranger Vera (Barbara Sukowa), informing her that her husband has been unfaithful. Ivonne visits Vera in prison, completely unprepared for the truth she learns about the depths of her husband's deception. An emotionally haunting story of love, betrayal, and lies, The Other Woman reveals the emotional implications of facing a double life that has lasted for decades.
* Film Description from MFA.com
Saturday, March 6
Film: 7:30pm The Women of Rosenstraße (2002)Wasserman Cinematheque, Brandeis University
New York 2001. After her husband dies, Ruth seems to be acting very distraught, according to her daughter Hannah. When Hannah starts probing into the past, she finds out that her mother, whose Jewish parents were deported during World War II, was raised by an "Aryan" woman named Lena. Hannah travels to Berlin and finds the now almost 90-year-old Lena. The old woman tells Hannah her story: the story of the women of the Rosenstrasse.
Lena was married to a Jewish musician. One day when he didn't come home from work, she went out looking for him. After a bureaucratic odyssey, she is sent to the Rosenstrasse, where she finds other women also looking for their Jewish husbands who have been incarcerated there. It is in the Rosenstrasse that Lena meets little Ruth.
Upon the wives' diligent insistence, the men are released, but Ruth's mother is deported. Ruth stays with Lena until relatives in the United States send for her. After losing her own mother, Ruth cannot stand losing Lena too, and, in a furious rage, throws the ring that she once received from her mother at Lena's feet.
When Hannah returns with this ring, Ruth is finally able to come to terms with her past.
* Film Description from www.german-cinema.de
Sunday, March 7
Film: 12:00pm Bleierne Zeit (1981)Film: 2:30pm Rosa Luxemburg (1985)
Wasserman Cinematheque, Sachar, Brandeis University
Description: Bleierne Zeit (To be posted soon)
Description: Rosa Luxemburg (To be posted soon)
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Margarethe von Trotta Retrospective: Thursday Film Series
The Second Awakening of Christa Klages
Thursday, March 11Wasserman Cinematheque, Sachar, Brandeis University
6:30pm
*No reservation required
Sisters, or the Balance of Happiness
Thursday, March 18Wasserman Cinematheque, Sachar, Brandeis University
6:30pm
* No reservation required
Sheer Madness
Thursday, March 25Wasserman Cinematheque, Sachar, Brandeis University,br> 6:30pm
* No reservation required
The Promise
Thursday, April 1Wasserman Cinematheque, Sachar, Brandeis University
6:30pm
* No reservation required
"Myths, Legends, and Historiography of German Reunification?"
A lecture by visiting Professor Andreas Roedder
Tuesday, March 23
4:30pm
Conference Room C, Usdan
The Reunification of Germany 1989/90 was at the core of the international revolution caused by the collapse of the Soviet Empire. Completely unexpected, within less than a year the divided nation was reunified. Having found another answer to the 'German question', which had lasted for two centuries, at the same time the question was raised what this meant for ever disputed German history and precarious German identity. Soon after the event, public commemoration came up, with different social and political wings trying to collect it. Was German Reunification the result of a long desired civil revolution? Or was it the result of previously lacking superior statesmanship? These narratives tied to deep-seated interpretations of modern German history, Andreas Roedder will identify myths and legends of German Reunification and confront them with tasks and results of the writing of contemporary history.
Andreas Roedder, born in 1967, is Associate Professor for Modern History at the University of Stuttgart and staying as a DAAD-Visiting Professor at Brandeis University for this spring semester. He is author of "Stresemanns Erbe. Julius Curtius und die deutsche Aussenpolitik 1929-1931" (1996), "Die radikale Herausforderung. Die politische Kultur der englischen Konservativen 1846-1868" (2002), "Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1969-1990" (2004) as well as of several articles on German contemporary history and German reunification.
Traumatic Past, Creative Responses: Reflections on the Holocaust as a Challenge for Today
A talk with Professor Björn Krondorfer, St. Mary's College of Maryland Religious Studies Program
Wednesday, March 31
4pm-5:30pm
Levine-Ross Ballroom, Usdan, Brandeis University
Please Note: Dinner discussion to follow.
SPRING CONCERT
Friday, April 16
12pm-1pm
Rapaporte Treasure Hall
Refreshments will be served after the concert.
with works by W.A.Mozart, J.S.Bach, Alban Berg, Bohuslav Martinu, Claude Debussy
Featuring: Friederike Roth, Clarinet
Isabelle Pourkat, Piano
Isabelle Pourkat was born in 1977 in Metz(France) and received her first piano lessons at age 4. From 1987 to 1993 she studied at the Conservatory in Nancy and completed her studies with "premiere medaille." She continued her studies with Jean-Luis Haguenauer in Strasbourg where she won the "premier prix de piano". After one year at the Conservatory in Paris she moved in 1998 to the Hochschule for Music in Cologne, Germany. She studied with Professors Lobanov and Merle and received her diploma in 2003. Since then she has taken masterclasses with, among others, Jean Fassina, Igor Laszko, Theodor Paraskivesko and Cristian Beldi. Friederike Roth was born in 1982 in Bernkastel-Kues and began her musical education first at the piano. She received her first instruction in clarinet at the age of seven. In 1997 she won second Prize in the Karel-Kunc competition in Karlsruhe, and in 2000 first Prize in the federal competition "Jugend Musiziert". She was the leading clarinet at the state youth orchestra of Rheinland-Pfalz and at the Bundesjugendorchester und attended Master Classes with Profs Steffens, Brunner and Manno. Since 2001 she is at the Musikhochschule Koeln in the class of Prof. Ralph Manno.
Russian-Jewish Diaspora After the Cold War: A Transnational Community in the Making?
Wednesday, April 219am-5pm
Conference Room C, Usdan, Brandeis University
Russian Jews have been permitted to leave their countries of origin without restriction since 1989/90, nourishing a "great exodus": Approximately one million Jewish citizens from the former Soviet Union have emigrated to Israel during the last 12 years, more than 300.000 to the United States and an additional 185.000 to Germany. Tens of thousands Russian Jews have also settled to Canada and Australia. Sociologists have created the term "Transnational Diaspora" for this phenomenon, and the strong cultural self-assertion of Russian Jewish immigrants in the respective host countries - combined with their intensive cross-border contacts - has led to the idea of the "Transnational Jewish Community".
Confirmed Participants:- Robert Brym, University of Toronto, Canada
- Zvi Gitelman, University of Michigan, Chicago
- Larissa Remennick, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
- Leonid Finberg, Director,Institute of Judaic Studies,Kiev, Ukraine
- Olaf Glöckner, Moses-Mendelssohn-Zentrum, Potsdam, Berlin
- Michal Y. Bodemann, University of Toronto, Canada
Please Note: Followed at 7pm by a screening of the documentary film Exodus to Berlin (in Wasserman Cinematheque, Sachar) and a discussion with filmmaker Peter Laufer.
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