14400
Lecture
Interdisciplinary Explorations of the Middle East in Berlin
Victoria Mummelthei
Information for students
course communication via: https://nodiscipline.hypotheses.org/ NOT via blackboard.
Comments
Walk Berlin. Notice buildings, streets, spaces that draw your attention.
Syrian restaurants occupy former East German buildings. Turkish families have lived in Kreuzberg for decades. Arabic appears on memorial plaques. Kurdish newspapers sell at corner kiosks. What stories do these layers tell? How do communities make themselves at home in cities that have been repeatedly unmade and remade? What gets preserved and what gets erased? Who decides what belongs?
Students choose one book to read: Anna Tsing's The Mushroom at the End of the World, James C. Scott's Seeing Like a State, or Robert Macfarlane's Is a River Alive? close
9 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Tue, 2025-10-14 10:00 - 12:00
introduction
Tue, 2025-11-04 10:00 - 14:00
walking Neukölln
Tue, 2025-11-11 10:00 - 14:00
walking Kreuzberg
Tue, 2025-11-18 10:00 - 14:00
on campus: “What has been catching your attention?”
Tue, 2025-12-02 10:00 - 14:00
hearing the city
Tue, 2025-12-09 10:00 - 14:00
smelling the city
Tue, 2025-12-16 10:00 - 14:00
touching the city
Tue, 2026-01-20 10:00 - 14:00
on campus: “What patterns are you noticing?”
Tue, 2026-02-10 10:00 - 14:00
on campus: “What questions do you have now?”