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2010-11 Newsletter INSIDE THIS ISSUE… Brandeis University Center for German 2010-2011 and European Studies RESEARCH WORKSHOPS AND PANEL DISCUSSIONS…............2-3 INTERDISCIPLINARY CONVERSATIONS AND LECTURES…………..…4-5 CULTURAL EVENTS.......6-7 JEWISH-GERMAN CGES DIALOGUE……………...8 in review Update on the Eurocrisis: What is it really? Who done it and why? What might it mean to us? CGES director emeritus George Ross, have so much trouble doing the right ad personam Chaire Jean Monnet at things. Ross did not mince words, the Université de Montréal and accusing European officials of having Morris Hillquit, Professor Emeritus knowingly ignored that “the Greeks in Labor and Social Thought at were cooking their books for years” Brandeis University returned to update and holding German Chancellor students and faculty in European Merkel’s slow response in part Studies about the situation in Europe. responsible for the severity of the Ross began with a historical overview, crisis. Asked whether a “proper focusing on the relationship between default” was an option for Greece, the financial crisis in the US and the Ross pointed to the country’s crisis gripping the EU and threatening symbolic significance for European the global economy. He explained why Brussels and the EU are even more difficult to understand than Wall (Eurocrisis - continued on page 3) Street, and why the Europeans seem to Brandeis Students “do Deutsch” To highlight the importance of the German language, CGES participated again in the campusweek activities co-sponsored by the German Embassy in Washington D.C. An entire ‘army’ of volunteers mounted daily activities on campus with music, discussion, and art celebrating the German language. (do Deutsch - continued on page 3) 2 Research Workshops and Panel Discussions EVENT Euro in Crisis? Tuesday, April 12, 2011 HIGHLIGHTS: When Lucas Papademos, himself. Instead, he joined to a significant ‘haircut’. former Vice-President of the the other finance experts to Moderator Chandler My Perestroika European Central Bank, agreed provide an overview of the Rosenberger, Assistant Monday, April 11, 2011 to join Jeffry Frieden, Euro crisis and to attempt to Professor of International and Harvard University Professor translate the complex web of Global Studies and Sociology What was it like growing up in the Department of challenges and options at Brandeis University fielded in the cold war? What do Government and Catherine Europe faced. While questions from a mixed people who grew up in the Mann, Barbara and Richard Papademos continued to be audience of economics Soviet Union or East and M. Rosenberg Professor of moderately optimistic that a students and those worried West Germany remember of Global Finance at Brandeis simple debt restructuring about the impact of the crisis their childhood? What University’s International would be sufficient, on the American recovery. remains? Robin Hessman Business School to discuss the Professor Mann compared The event was co-sponsored explored these questions in Euro crisis in early April of the European situation to by The Rosenberg Institute of her documentary My 2011, he did not let on that he what had happened in South Global Finance and The Perestroika, a film that might soon be in charge of America in the 1980s and International and Global includes interviews with a steering the Greek economy 90s and saw little alternative Studies Program. number of young Russians who take an unflinching look at their years under communist rule. Hessman’s work was discussed by Babi Yar in History and Memory graduate student Feruza Aripova, and Professors Wednesday, October 5, 2011 Irina Dubinina and Sabine von Mering, who each contributed their own Babi Yar is a ravine in Holocaust and Genocide primarily to censorship in memories of the time before Kiev, Ukraine, where the Studies; Gennady Estraikh, the Soviet Union, “before and after Perestroika and the largest mass murder of associate professor of 1961, Babi Yar simply fall of the Berlin wall. Soviet Jews during World Yiddish Studies at New York couldn't enter the domain of War II took place from University; Alice public knowledge,” Estraikh Geopolitics of Energy Sept. 29 to 30, 1941. In Nakhimovsky, professor of explained. Unlike most addition to commemorating Russian and Jewish Studies at mass murders during the Tuesday, April 12, 2011 the 70th anniversary of the Colgate University; and Olga Holocaust, young men were massacre, this symposium Litvak, who holds the Leffell not separated from women, Klaus Barbknecht, Executive Board Member, was organized to bring Chair in Modern Jewish children and elders. together scholars to “begin History at Clark University. The lectures were Verbundnetz Gas, returned to a conversation” about the On the massacre itself, interspersed with student Brandeis for a stimulating luncheon conversation with event and to honor the Berkhoff said that the Jews performances, including victims' memory, existence would have had little doubt poems "1 (Untitled)" by business students and faculty and suffering. For the Jews, that they were about to be Ilya Ehrenburg, read by at the Brandeis International Business School. Participants Babi Yar became a symbol killed. “The Germans David Benger '14 and of "the reawakening of demanded [the Jews'] Daniel Shpolyansky '14, discussed recent Jewish identities and documents and burned them and "Babi Yar" by Yevgeni developments in the European energy sector, collective mourning" before their own eyes,” he Yevtushenko, read by (ChaeRan Freeze) and for explained. "The shooting Karina Gaft '14 and Nera focusing on emergency the Soviet intelligentsia, a began at 10 in the morning Lerner '12. Sponsored by management, and considered "rejection of anti-Semitism and lasted until 5 or 6 pm,” the Tauber Institute for the implications of the and protest against Soviet and continued again the European Jewry, the Sarnat German government’s repression.” following morning. Center for the Study of decision to phase out nuclear Speakers included According to Berkhoff, Anti-Jewishness, the power. Co-sponsored by: Freeze; Karel C. Berkhoff, killings at the site continued Brandeis-Genesis Institute Perlmutter Institute for Global Business Leadership senior researcher at the until late October. Due for Russian Jewry, and the NIOD Institute for War, Brandeis Russian Club. and the Brandeis International Business School. 3 Workshop on Europe, Energy, and Eurocrisis: What now? the Environment Friday, October 28, 2011 Monday, April 11, 2011 (Eurocrisis - from page 1) Many young Europeans in the audience This 3-week graduate felt encouraged by Ross’ talk. “He knows workshop with Klaus unity and also emphasized that many a lot about the history of the EU, and so Barbknecht, Executive Greeks are suffering tremendously as a he can put things in perspective” on Board Member, Verbundnetz consequence of the current situation. student remarked. Gas, grew out of Barbknecht’s initial visit to Brandeis in 2010. In this workshop, students learned about the international gas ‘do Deutsch’ – Info Panel Series markets and their role in November 14-18, 2011 addressing environmental concerns. Co-sponsors: Perlmutter Institute for Global (do Deutsch - from page 1) Business Leadership and the Brandeis International Student Panels presented German food, enjoyed participating in a quiz about Business School. videos, impromptu German lessons, and Germany that included such questions as shared information about study and “Who is Angela Merkel or “What do German Jewish research in Germany in the Shapiro ‘Kinder’ and ‘Garten’ originally mean?” in Aspirations in Music and Campus Center and Usdan Student the hope of winning one of the popular “do th th Center every day of the week. Many Deutsch”-T-Shirts. Culture in 19 and 20 Century Germany Tuesday, April 12, 2011 Michael Leavitt, President, American Society of Jewish Music, introduced a multi- panel symposium devoted to the question of how German Jews navigated music and culture in the 19th and 20th century. The first panel focused on German Jewish Synagogue Music. Speakers included Dr. Mark L. Kligman, Dr. Tina Frühauf, Dr. Michael Zank. The second panel was devoted to Jewish Music in the 20th Century. Speakers included Eugene Sheppard, Dr. Pamela Potter, and Dr. Anthony Polonsky. Co- sponsored by The American Society of Jewish Music, the Jewish Music Forum, Brandeis University’s Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry, and Brandeis Library and Technology Services. 4 Interdisciplinary Conversations and Lectures EVENT From Chernobyl to Fukishima: HIGHLIGHTS: Nuclear Energy and Its Alternatives Thursday, April 28, 2011 TXT BCK? On the Art of Text Messaging On the 25th anniversary Schindler, then Director of have so far neglected in of the Chernobyl nuclear the Fraunhofer Institut favor of nuclear power. Thursday,March 31, 2011 disaster, CGES in Cambridge, MA Dr. Schindler focused his experimented for the first was able to join talk on ways in which Professor Lutz Koepnick time with the option of the panel in person. New England could tackled a very timely videoconferencing a Lehmann outlined how benefit from advances in question in his lecture: panelist from Germany. Europe can dramatically technology developed by Does the age of electronic The result was a reduce its carbon footprint German and European networks, global stimulating conversation by coordinating efficiency partners. Both panelists transactions, and rapid across the “pond” that measures and investment in saw a great future for transportation technologies allowed participants to alternative energy across alternative energy not cause people to suffer from hear first-hand from Dr. the continent. In reference only as a way to promote too much speed in their Harry Lehmann from to the recent nuclear sustainability but also to lives? Contrary to the Umweltbundesamt catastrophe in Japan, stimulate the economy expectation, Koepnick [federal environmental Lehmann also highlighted through innovation. discovered the potential of office—an organization the enormous untapped Presented in cooperation electronic writing and text comparable to the EPA] resources in alternative with the Goethe Institut messaging to reframe the in Bonn.
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