Exploring Berlin Museums - Detailseite

ECTS Points: 5

Language requirements: min. English B2

NB:  As this is a BA-level course, MA-level students who wish to take this course are asked to contact with instructor in advance of registration by e-mail to discuss if this course is suitable for them.

This anthropologically inflected course is interdisciplinary in nature. The aim of the course is to explore and critically analyze certain aspects of Berlin’s museological landscape using anthropological methods. This will be realized during the various field trips to relevant sites. The focus is on two particularly visible and conflict-ridden aspects of this landscape, namely the Jewish narrative and the topic of migration. Although this course is based in social/cultural anthropology, it does engage with other disciplines and might be of interest to students of history, theology, art history, not to mention the more theme-based programs of Urban Studies, Ethics, and Museum Studies. 

All the lectures will be in English. German is not required for this course, but a would be an asset as it would allow for indepth exploration of key issues.

Robin Ostow (2007). “From Displaying ‘Jewish’ Art to (Re) Building German-Jewish History.” In Interrogating Race and Racism, edited by Vijay Agnew, 298–320. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Bernhard Purin. (2008). “Building a Jewish Museum in Germany in the Twenty-First Century.” In ReVisualizing National History. Museums and National Identities in Europe in the New Millennium, edited by Robin Ostow, 139–56. Toronto: University of Toronto Press

Gökçe Yurdakul and Y. Michal Bodemann. 2006. “‘We Don’t Want to Be the Jews of Tomorrow’ Jews and Turks in Germany after 9/11.” German Politics and Society 79 (24) 2: 44–67.

Michael Rothberg and Yasemin Yildiz. (2011). “Memory Citizenship: Migrant Archives of Holocaust Remembrance in Contemporary Germany.” Parallax (Special Issue on Transcultural Memory) 17.4, 32-48.

Matti Bunzl (2005) “Between Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia: Some Thoughts on the New Europe.” American Ethnologist 32.4. 499-508.

Shooman, Yasemin and Riem Speilhaus (2010). “The concept of the Muslim enemy in the public discourse” In Jocelyn Cesari (ed.) Muslims in the West after 9/11. Religion, politics, and law. Routledge: London and New York. 198-228.

This seminar carries 5 ECTS.

For international incoming students and HU students.

Language requirements English B2 minimum.

NO registration via Agnes.

Application via Berlin Perspectives ONLY: BP Module application

Internationale Programmstudierende / International exchange students.

HU-Studierende im ÜWP.