Past Events
2020
Guest Lecture: Frank Biess, University of California, San Diego, February 5, 2020
Republik der Angst: Eine andere Geschichte der Bundesrepublik
2019
Hope Harrison, George Washington University, October 30, 2019
After the Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present
Berlin Program Alumni Panel at the GSA, October 5, 2019
GSA Distinguished Lecture, July 4, 2019, 6-8 P.M.
Johannes von Moltke, University of Michigan / German Studies Association
The Meme is the Message: Alt-Right/Neue Rechte and the Political Affordances of Social Media
View the lecture -- Listen to the commentary by Simon Strick -- Read the report by the Press Office
Berlin Program Summer Workshop, June 24-26, 2019
Disorientations/Desorientierungen
2018
Guest Lecture by Pamela Potter, Professor of German and Music at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Dec. 6, 2018
The Ghosts of Denazification in Histories of the Arts.
Historians Professor David Barclay, Executive Director of the GSA and Max Kade Postdoctoral Fellow Scott Krause, Ph.D. guided fellows through cold war Berlin on November 24, 2018.
Berlin Program Alumni Panel at the GSA, September 29, 2018
Berlin Program Summer Workshop, June 27-29, 2018
Strange Bedfellows / Unexpected Allies
GSA Distinguished Lecture by H. Glenn Penny, June 18, 2018
Kihawahine: German Ethnology and its Histories of the World
2017
Berlin Program Alumni Panel at the GSA in Atlanta, October 2017 organized by René Staedtler
‘The Christian, Democratic Values of the West?’: Humanitarianism and Memory in Postwar Germany
Berlin Program Summer Workshop, June 28-30, 2017
Continuities and Ruptures: Reflections on Crucial Concepts
Report by campus.leben
GSA Distinguished Lecture by Professor Sabine Hake, June 12, 2017 6-8 p.m. followed by a reception
Workshop with Professor Sabine Hake, June 12, 2017, 10-12 a.m.
Becoming Part of German Studies: Challenges, Strategies, and Opportunities
Booklaunch: Different Germans, Many Germanies: New Transatlantic Perspectives, February 16, 2017
2016
Berlin Program Summer Workshop, June 23-25, 2016
Becoming TransGerman: Transnational, Transdisciplinary, Transgender, Transhuman
GSA Distinguished Lecture by Professor Irene Kacandes, June 30, 2016
Memory Work for/in the 21st Century
Berlin Program Alumni Roundtable at the GSA, San Diego, September 29 - October 2, 2016
Refugees, Migrants, Citizens: Germany’s Recurring Complexities of Becoming a Country of Immigration
2015
Lesung und Gespräch, 25.11.2015, 18-20 Uhr, Raum 009, Ehrenbergstr. 26/28
Adriana Altaras liest aus Doitscha - Moderation: Irene Kacandes
Berlin Program Alumni Roundtable at the GSA, Washington, D.C. October 4, 2015
Berlin Program Summer Workshop, June 18-19, 2015, Seminarzentrum Room L 115
Violence, Oppression and Civil Disobedience: From the Cold War Past to the Neoliberal Present
GSA Distinguished Lecture by Professor Joy Calico, June 30, 2015, Seminarzentrum Room L 115
2014
Berlin Program Alumni Panel at the GSA, September 18–21, 2014 in Kansas City, Missouri
Integration in Theory and Practice, 1960-2010
Berlin Program Summer Workshop, June 19-20, 2014, FU Berlin, Seminarzentrum Room L 115
Distinguished Lecture by Professor Suzanne L. Marchand, June 2, 2014 FU Berlin, Seminarzentrum Room L 115
Orientalism and the Classical Tradition in Germany
2013
Berlin Program Alumni Roundtable at the GSA, October 3–6, 2013 in Denver, Colorado
Studying Memory: Methodologies and Tools for Research
Distinguished Lecture by Prof. Dr. David Barclay, July 3, 2013 FU Berlin, Seminarzentrum Room L 115
Old Glory und Berliner Bär. Die USA und West-Berlin 1948–1994
Berlin Program Summer Workshop, June 20-21, 2013, FU Berlin, Seminarzentrum Room L 115
Germany Looks East
2012
Berlin Program Alumni Panel at the GSA, Oct. 4-7, 2012, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
A New Era of German Bevölkerungspolitik? Legacies and Myths in German Discourses on Demography
Berlin Program Summer Workshop, June 25, 2012, FU Berlin, Seminarzentrum Room L 115
German Studies Between the Global and the Local
2011
25th Anniversary Alumni Conference
In June 2011, the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies celebrated its Twenty-Fifth Anniversary with an alumni conference. Since the program's establishment in 1986 at the Freie Universität Berlin it has supported more than 250 scholars who now teach and research at some of the most influential universities and colleges in the US, Canada and beyond. The conference provided an opportunity for Berlin Program alumni to reconnect with the Freie Universität Berlin and other academic institutions. We wish to thank the DAAD and the Ernst-Reuter-Gesellschaft for its generous support.
Conference Program - Conference Report - Meet three Berlin Program Alumni
Our cooperation with the German Studies Association (GSA) offers Berlin Program Fellows and Alumni a chance to present their work at the annual GSA Conference to an expert audience. As a multidisciplinary professional association of scholars, the GSA has greatly contributed to generating new knowledge on key social, cultural, and political issues. Each year, one or more Berlin Program Panels and Roundtables at the GSA serve as a site for critical engagement. The panels and roundtables are thematically open; contributions from all disciplines are welcome. Panels and roundtables in recent years have been:
Berlin Program Alumni Panel at the GSA, September 24, 2011 in Louisville, Kentucky
Architectures of Berlin
2010
The Visual Arts in Cold War Germany and Beyond
2009
Being and Becoming a Minority in Germany: Immigrant Integration, Political Representation and Minority Rights
2008
Making the GDR: Constructing a Socialist Society in the East After 1945
2007
The Berlin Wall: Ethnographic, Historical, and Literary Analyses
The Shared Intellectual History of Germany and the US before
and after WW II
2006
Colonial Past and Postcolonial Present: Reflecting on Race and Warfare in German Thought, 1890-2005
Representing Dictatorship: The Third Reich and the GDR
2004
Negotiated Identities: The Struggle to Define German and Immigrant Identities in the Twentieth Century