EXHIBITION

"From Peaceful Revolution to German Unity”.  An ongoing exhibition of posters depicting the history of events which lead to the Fall of the Wall and to German reunification.                               

Watson Institute lobby
Free and open to the public

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FILM SCREENING

“Goodbye Lenin”
(In German with English subtitles)    

8:00 pm, MacMillan 117
Free and open to the public.

Screening of award winning film, “Goodbye Lenin” (2003).  German comedy about a son who must hide the fall of the Berlin Wall from his sickly mother because he believes that the shock might kill her. 

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LECTURE

“West meets East – Past Experiences and Current Challenges”

Reiner Möckelmann, Consul General Reiner Möckelmann, Retired West German Diplomat and Director of Summer School Wust

7:00 pm, Joukowsky Forum at the Watson Institute
Free and open to the public with reception following

Consul General Reiner Möckelmann, a former West German diplomat, who held posts at the embassies in Moscow, Belgrad, Vienna, Lima, Ankara and as Consul General in Istanbul, will lecture about his experiences working for the embassy during the Cold War and now since 2006 as Director of the Summer School Wust located in former East Germany. This school was founded in order to give educational opportunities to former citizens of the GDR.  Consul Möckelmann’s career was influenced greatly by the existence of the Berlin Wall. Due to security reasons, as a western diplomat he did not enter East Germany except in transit to Moscow.  Upon his retirement, he assumed the Directorship of the Wust Summer School and celebrated  the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the wall at the school this summer by hosting prominent figures from politics and law who were participants in the ‘peaceful revolution’ and members of formal roundtable negotiations in eastern Germany in 1989-1990.  Brown University’s German Studies Professor Kay Goodman was a founder of this summer school.  Each summer, two to three Brown students travel to Wust to work as instructors at the summer school and to live with families in the village.

Sponsored by the C. V. Starr Lectureship Fund

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ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

““Brown/Rostock Exchange 1979-1989: Scholarly Exchanges with East Germany”

Professor William Crossgrove, Professor Marilyn Rueschemeyer, Professor Duncan Smith

3:00 pm:  Kaffeestunde
3:30 pm:  Roundtable Discussion with reception following

Joukowsky Forum at the Watson Institute, Free and open to the public.

Brown University has a long tradition of exchanges with former East Germany (German Democratic Republic). In 1979, the first exchange between any university in the US and in the GDR was established between Brown and the Wilhelm Pieck University in Rostock, East Germany. Undergraduate and graduate students as well as faculty from such disciplines as English, medicine, physics, chemistry and German participated in this exchange. This exchange grew to be the largest exchange program between a US and an East German university. About one hundred students participated in the semester or year program, and many more in the summer programs. Another fifty or so faculty members also regularly participated. The exchange took place between libraries as well, which led to Brown having an extensive collection of holdings relating to the GDR. The Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University still maintains an exchange with the medical school in Rostock.  In this roundtable, Professors emeriti Duncan Smith and William Crossgrove from Brown’s Department of German Studies along with Professor Marilyn Rueschemeyer from the Watson Institute will reflect on these exchanges and on their own research on the topic.

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GALA

Semi-formal Event (Please dress nicely! Suit and tie are not required, no sneakers, flip-flops or blue jeans)

8:00pm-12:00pm:  Music and dancing, food and fun!

8pm-9pm: Live piano music performed by Brown students Ja Bin Hong and Sang Bin Hong

Bach: Partita in e minor
Brahms: Intermezzo in e-flat minor (Op.118 No.6)
Schumann-Liszt: Widmung

9-midnight: Dance to the best German music!

Sayles Hall, Ticket required.
Please email German_Studies@Brown.edu for more information.

Click HERE for ticket sales information.

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“Tear Down this Wall”

11am – 1pm:  Wall Art Competition. Add graffiti to our miniature replica of the Berlin Wall and get the chance of winning a trip to two to Berlin!   Sharpies will be provided! Bring your own paints! All participants will receive their own Freedom without Walls pens and highlighters.

12noon – 1:00 pm:  Public Speaking and Spoken Word Competition.  Give a short “speech” or perform a “poetry slam” about the fall of the wall.  Winning speech will be entered into nationwide competition.  Prize is trip for two to Berlin. All participants will receive a drawstring backpack filled with cool prizes, including a water bottle, and gummi bears! Click HERE for competition guidelines.

1pm-2pm:  “Tear Down this Wall”.  Grab a hammer, put on a Freedom without Walls t-shirt and tear down this wall!

Main Green
Free and open to the public. 

Twenty years ago, on the 9th of November, 1989, the world watched in astonishment as jubilant crowds gathered around midnight on both sides of the Berlin Wall. A peaceful revolution had forced the Wall open.  What is the significance of the fall of the wall? What does it mean to students born twenty years ago? To present and future generations, the fall of the Berlin Wall sends a universal message of hope. It reminds us that peaceful change remains possible even where hard line regimes reign. It reminds us that freedom will prevail.

LECTURE

Brigid Doherty
(Associate Professor in the Princeton University Departments of Art and Archaeology and Germanic Languages and Literature)

"A Footnote to Art History in Walter Benjamin's 'Artwork Essay'"

6:30 pm, List 110, 64 College Street

COLLOQUIUM
Susan Solomon, Comparative Literature
Michael Powers, German Studies

4:30pm, Library at 190 Hope

LECTURE
Prof. Wolfgang Bernard
(University of Rostock, Germany)

'The Ongoing Process of German Reunification - A Look Behind the Scenes '

Noon, Library at 190 Hope
Pizza lunch provided

COLLOQUIUM
Professor Kevin McLaughlin
(Professor of English and Comparative Literature and German Studies)

“Making Room for Reason in Kant and Derrida”

4:30pm, 190 Hope, Room 103
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OKTOBERFEST
Come join us for Wurst und Kuchen

3:00 pm, lawn, 190 Hope Street

COLLOQUIUM
Beatrix Himmelmann
(Visiting Professor in Philosophy)

“How to Make Sense of the World - Nietzsche's Aesthetic Point of View”

4:30pm, Library at 190 Hope

MUSICAL
Cabaret
Brown University Theatre

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COLLOQUIUM
Ulrike Küchler

The Magical Mechanical: Automata
and the Fantastic in literature.
E.T.A. Hoffmann´s Olimpia and Alfred de Musset´s Blandine

4:30 pm
190 Hope Street, Library
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WORKSHOP ON POETRY
Ian Cooper
(Selwyn College, Cambridge)

'Faces, Fingers and Photographs: Les Murray and his European Contexts'

Noon - 2:00pm
Marston 209

Preregistration required with zachary_sng@brown.edu
Lunch provided
Sponsored by the Departments of German Studies and Comparative Literature
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SYMPOSIUM
Theatricality and Performance

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WORKSHOP ON POETRY
Ian Cooper
(Selwyn College, Cambridge)

"Durs Grünbein's Voices"

5:00 - 7:00 pm
190 Hope Street, room 103

Pre-registration required with zachary_sng@brown.edu.
Sponsored by the Dept. of German Studies
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BROWN DEGREE DAYS
Meet alumni to hear about their career paths post Brown.

3:00PM
190 Hope Street, Library
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LECTURE
Professor Bernd Stiegler
"Montage as Cultural Technique"

5:00pm
190 Hope Street, room 203
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GERMAN CLUB
Kabarettabend

7:30pm
Hourglass Café (basement @ Faunce House)
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FILMFEST
6th annual Bruniale Filmfest 

Noon - 2:00pm
Salomon 101
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COLLOQUIUM
Katrin Dettmer
tbd

Silja Maehl
"The body of Language: Yoko Tawada and Walter Benjamin".

3:00-5:00pm
190 Hope Street, room 103

DELTA PHI ALPHA INDUCTION & AWARDS CEREMONY

2:00-3:00pm
190 Hope Street, room 103

GRILLFEST

3:00-5:00pm
190 Hope Street, lawn

Freedom Without Walls Campus Week

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LECTURE SERIES
German Studies and the Humanities: New Directions
Elisabeth Weber, "'Torture was the essence of National Socialism': Reading Jean Améry Today." Free, refreshments, 4:00pm, Faunce House, Petteruti Lounge.
RECOMMENDED READING AVAILABLE HERE

LECTURE
Professor Roberto Simanowski
Eating Text: The Life of Words as Image, Sound and Action @ Goethe Institüt-Boston. Click HERE for details.

READING
in English and German
Jan Wagner
Click HERE to hear Wagner read some of his poems. McCormack Theater @ 7:00pm

LECTURE SERIES
German Studies and the Humanities: New Directions
Stefan Andriopoulos,"Phantasmagoria: Specters of Kant."
Free, refreshments, 4:00pm, location Pembroke Hall 305.

RECOMMENDED READING AVAILABLE HERE

LECTURE SERIES
German Studies and the Humanities:
New Directions
Peter Fenves,"Kant and the Idea of 'Other Human Beings of a Different Species (Race).'"
Free, refreshments, 5:00pm., 190 Hope, Room 203.

RECOMMENDED READING AVAILABLE HERE

FILM SCREENING
Yella (2007)
190 Hope Street, Room 203 @ 7:00pm. Drama. German / English subtitles. Click HERE for trailer.

“Coming to Terms with the Ghost:  Spectral Narration in Uwe Johnson's Jahrestage” by Prof. Lara Kelingos. Free, refreshments, 4:00pm, 190 Hope, Room 103.

Concert: "Spiritual Resistance: Music from Theresienstadt" by baritone Wolfgang Holzmair, Russell Ryan on Piano, 7:30pm, First Unitarian Church, Benefit and Benevolent Streets, Prov., RI. Free and open to the public. Reception to follow. Presented by the Cogut Center for the Humanities.

FILM SCREENING: Young Törless
Salomon 203, 7-9 pm. Admission Free
German w/English subtitles

GERMAN CLUB:
Fußballtag! April 18th, 3PM, Lawn @ 190 Hope St. Free.

GDR Film Series: “Ich war neunzehn” (1968),
7 p.m. Smith-Buonanno 201, in German with English subtitles    

Reading Digital Literature Conference, Opening reception and Exhibition: 8:00pm - 9:00pm in List Art Center
Click here to view our conference website.

Reading Digital Literature Conference, Conference Opening: 4:30pm - 5:00pm
Sessions: 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Performance of Digital Literature: 7:00pm - 8:00 pm
All in Smith-Buonanno 106

Reading Digital Literature Conference,
Sessions: 9:30am to 6:30pm
Performance of Digital Literature: 8:30pm to 10:00 pm
All in Smith-Buonanno 106

Reading Digital Literature Conference,
Student Panel: 10:00am - 12:00pm
All in Smith-Buonanno 106

GDR Film Series: “Jakob, der Lügner“ (1975)
7 p.m. Smith-Buonanno 201, in German with English subtitles

"Uncalled: A Commentary on Kafka's 'The Test,'"
a Lecture by Werner Hamacher (U. of Frankfurt)
Brian Room, Maddock Alumni Ctr
5:30 p.m., with reception to follow
(sponsored by Comparative Literature, Cogut Center, and German Studies)