Berlin’s rich museological landscape lends itself to in-depth exploration of Germany’s difficult heritage: How are the upheavals of the 20th and 21st centuries, especially, remembered and represented? This course aims to enable the students to get to know a number of Berlin museums focusing on Memory and Post-WWII migration using anthropological methods and to critically analyze them within larger theoretical frameworks of “self” and “other” constructions. To explore the role of museums in rendering such constructions visible and therefore debatable. In the digital format it will consist of online tours and explorations of sites in question, assignments based on these, and Zoom Meetings for discussion, exchange in real time, and student presentations. In a blended format it will allow for optional museum visits for students in Berlin to replace a number of the online assignments, keeping the Zoom Meetings as above. In a completely in person course, it will consist of seminars in the classroom and at least three site visits. Accommodating these visits together as a group would require sessions of between 3-4 hours, so the number of sessions would then be reduced accordingly, should this become a completely in-person course. In class discussion sessions would remain as 2 hour ct. sessions.
Language requirements: English B2
The detailed syllabus for this course is available on the Berlin Perspectives website:https://hic.hu-berlin.de/en/berlin-perspectives/courses
This course is offered by the Career Center as part of the elective program üWP. It is open to international exchange students, and to regular HU students.
Registration is open until 14 October 2021.
