Chair: Prof. Dr. Christiane Lemke
Dr. Beverly Crawford
Commentators:
Prof. Dr. Georg Nolte
Prof. Dr. Michael Zürn
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June 30, 2008 – Jazz in the Kulturnation
Jul
9
08
9
08
Chair and Commentator: PD Dr. Matthias Tischer
William Bares
Dr. Wolfram Knauer
Prof. Penny von Eschen
Detroit Gary Wiggins
June 23, 2008 – The Global Discourse on Gender and Sexuality: Where Are We Now?
Jul
9
08
9
08
Chair: Dr. Kris Manjapra
Pramada Menon
Prof. Afsaneh Najmabadi
Prof. Ann Pellegrini
Prof. Shu-mei Shih
June 16, 2008 – The Third World Strikes Back/How Postcolonial Societies Changed the World During the Cold War Era
Jul
9
08
9
08
Chair: Dr. Kris Manjapra
Prof. Dr. Andreas Eckert
Prof. Sunil Khilnani
Prof. Dr. Dirk van Laak
May 26, 2008 – The Rise of China and India: Understanding the New ‘New World Order’
May
28
08
28
08
Chair: Siddharth Mohandas
Prof. Yu Bin
Sujit Dutta
Martin Klingst
May 5, 2008 – Hard and Soft Power: Can the UN bring Stability?
May
27
08
27
08
Chair: Dr. Markus Jachtenfuchs
Thorsten Benner
Prof. Dr. Thomas Risse
April 28, 2008 – Turning a Blind Eye: Genocide in the 20th Century
May
26
08
26
08
Chair:
Prof. Dr. Constantin Goschler
Speakers:
Binaifer Nowrojee
Dr. Gerard Prunier
Dr. Jeffrey Richter
February 18, 2008 – Competing Cold War Cultures: Crossing the Border?
Mar
18
08
18
08
Chair: Brigitta Wagner
Wolfgang Kohlhaase
Prof. Stefan Soldovieri
Prof. Katie Trumpener
This session grows out of an interest in how popular culture in general and film culture specifically was experienced in the pre-Wall divided Berlin of the 1950s. With open borders and competing film offerings from West Germany and the U.S. in West Berlin and DEFA and the Soviet Union in the East, how were Berliners uniquely positioned within the early Cold War? How did filmmaking and film-going practices defy political alliances and allow for ideological transgressions? What opportunities existed for East-West narratives and co-productions? To what extent can we claim that these films and Berlin’s unique cultural political landscape contributed to a sense of German national unity?
February 11, 2008 – The New Scramble for Africa: Oil, Geopolitics and the Quest for the Development Dividend
Feb
26
08
26
08
Chair: Thorsten Benner
Ricardo Soares de Oliveira
Michael Peel
February 4, 2008 – Germans, Indians and the Wild West
Feb
14
08
14
08
Chair: Dr. Christoph Strupp
Prof. H. Glenn Plenny
Prof. Dr. K. Markus Kreis
Dr. Pamela Kort
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