2018
Berlin Program Summer Workshop
"Strange Bedfellows/Unexpected Allies" | June 27—29, 2018
GSA Distinguished Lecture
H. Glenn Penny: "Kihawahine: German Ethnology and its Histories of the World" | June 18, 2018
Guest Lectures
Randall Halle (University of Pittsburgh, German Film and Cultural Studies): "German European Studies for the 21st Century" | February 12, 2018
Christina Gerhardt (University of Hawaii at Manoa): "Screening the Red Army Fraction: Historical and Cultural Memory" | June 4, 2018
Pamela Potter (Professor of German and Music at the University of Wisconsin-Madison): "The Ghosts of Denazification in History of the Arts" | December 6, 2018
Berlin Program Alumni Panel at the GSA
The 2018 Alumni Panel at the GSA Conference in Pittsburgh on September 29 discussed "State Building as a Cultural Act: Intersections of Bureaucracy with Art and Architectural Production in German Regimes, 1815-1989."
Berlin Walk
On November 24, 2018, Prof. Dr. David Barclay (Executive Director of the German Studies Association) and Dr. Scott Krause (Alliierten Museum Berlin) took participants of the colloquium to historical milestones in the City West. Starting with the Kulturforum with the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and the Philharmonie, the tour continued to the Deutsche Oper. Another stop at Ernst-Euter-Platz, America Haus and the Jewish Community Center in Fasanenstr. The tour ended at another institution in West Berlin: Schwarzes Cafe.