Monday
March 14, 2005
10 am - 5:30 pm
 
Watson Institute for International Studies
 
McKinney Conference Room

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10:00 - 10:15am

Welcome and Introduction:
The Challenges of Social Integration in the New Berlin

Hilary Silver, Sociology, Brown University
(Email: hilary_silver@brown.edu)
 

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10:15am - 1:00pm   SOCIAL INTEGRATION THROUGH THE RE-BUILT ENVIRONMENT

Berlin: City of the West, the East, or the Crossroads?

John Czaplicka, Center for European Studies, Harvard University
 
From Kreuzberg towards Marzahn:
Integrating Berlin's Newest Migrants

Wolfgang Kil, Architecture Critic
 
The Cultural Production of Locality:
Reclaiming the "European City" in Post-Wall Berlin

Virág Molnár, Sociology, University of Reading, UK
 
Memorial Projects as Sites of Social Integration in Post-1989 Berlin?

Jennifer A. Jordan, Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
 

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1:00-2:00pm   LUNCH

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2:00-3:30pm   SOCIAL INTEGRATION OF NEWCOMERS

Managing Transnational Islam:
Muslims and the State in Berlin and Germany

Jonathan Laurence, PhD Candidate, Dept. of Government, Harvard and Visiting Fellow, Center on the US and Europe, The Brookings Institution
 
Social Cities and Social Inclusion:
Assessing the Role of Turkish Residents in Building the New Berlin

Janice Bockmeyer, Politics, John Jay College, CUNY
 

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3:30-4:00pm   BREAK

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4:00-5:30pm   SOCIAL INTEGRATION THROUGH POLITICAL ACTIVISM

Berlin Nonprofits in the Reshaping of Welfare and Employment Policies

Margit Mayer, JFK Institute, Free University Berlin
 
Disability in the Berlin Republic:
Cultural Representations and Public Debates

Carol Poore, German Studies, Brown University