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Climatechange Campusweeks: Our Choices Matter Right Wing Radicalism: A Transatlantic Perspective

Since the end of the cold war right wing movements have seen a comeback in Germany and Europe. Xenophobic attacks on dark-skinned foreigners and desecrations of Jewish cemeteries regularly make headlines. Skinhead and neonazi movements, although deeply anti-international in their ideology, are organizing across borders in both Eastern and Western Europe, and even in the United States. The elections to the European

A funny-looking half-open African The campusweeks series of events began house with a home-made stove and a with the ‘SEA coffeehouse’ organized by solar cell on the roof was the most Students for Environmental Action on visible sign that something was afoot: November 15th and culminated in a Brandeis was one of almost twenty festive Green Unity Gala with 200 guests campuses in the US invited by the in Levin Ballroom on December 3rd. German Embassy in Washington,D.C. Events included a conversation with Bob to participate in ‘Climatechange Lange and educator Joseph ole Tipanko Campusweeks’ in celebration of the from Kenya about the effects of climate 20th anniversary of German change on rural communities in Africa, a unification. Built with the help of panel discussion with German journalist Elisabeth von Thadden (DIE ZEIT), and parliament in June of 2009 sent a Brandeis professor of ecology Eric blow to the party establishment across Olson and African students in the Brandeis Dean of Arts and Sciences Adam Jaffe (Economics) about steps the continent, as right-wing extremist Sustainable International groups showed strong increases in Development program, the ‘Maasai developed societies must take to successfully lower their carbon voter support. Although small in House’ served as meeting point for a relative numbers, the absolute number number of events organized in con- emissions, and the screening of the movie A Sea Change about the of right wing extremists is on the rise junction with the 17-day program. It in many European countries. On April show-cased the work of Brandeis underreported problem of ocean acidification. A core group of students, 28, 2010 CGES invited experts who professor emeritus of physics Robert study radical right wing political Lange, whose work with the Maasai staff, and faculty began conceptualizing the campusweeks some time in the spring movements to discuss the motivation in Tanzania already spans more than and organizational methods of the three decades, and showcased the semester. After everyone returned to campus in August the group continued to movements. stove he designed for Maasai homes (Continue on: P.3) to dramatically reduce air pollution. grow. (Continue on: P.6) CGES In Review 2010

Greetings from the Director: Kilian Leibundgut, a graduate student CGES and the foundation’s interests: in political science, became the new “Driven from his native by Nazi 2010 was a year of transition at CGES graduate assistant in the fall of hatred, Otto Walter became a powerful Brandeis, as Fred Lawrence was chosen 2010. Sarah Klapisch, ’12 joined voice for German-American as the university’s next president. Aaron Winckler,’10 and Jonathan reconciliation in the decades following Lawrence succeeds president Jehuda Jecker,’12 on the undergraduate team. World War II. Disbarred by Hitler’s anti- Reinharz, who led the university for CGES was proud to participate in the Jewish decrees from practicing as an over 16 years, and under whose German Embassy’s Climatechange attorney in Germany, he studied law leadership the Center for German and Campusweeks that brought exciting again in the United States and became a European Studies was founded in 1997. programming to campus from renowned international jurist. Confronted In the summer of 2010 CGES also November 15 through December 3rd. by ugliness, he became a patron of the moved into its beautiful new office on It owed its success to a lot of people arts. Persecuted, he responded with the third floor of the new Mandel —including faculty--Eric Olson charity.” Humanities Center. Sebastian (Ecology; Heller School), Melanie 2 Fohrbeck, Director of the DAAD Sherwood (German), Bob Lange [www.walterfoundation.org/History.html]. We (Deutscher Akademischer (Physics, emeritus) Laura Goldin are deeply grateful for the foundation’s Austauschdienst) in New York, (Environmental Studies), students— generous contribution of $30,000 to our Fiona Lockyer, Illona Yuhaev, and DAAD challenge grant. staff—Janna Cohen-Rosenthal, Heidi There are already many exciting plans in McAllister, and Charlie Radin. A big the works for 2011. First and foremost, thank you to all for their tremendous CGES is proud to be involved with support! Boston Lyric Opera’s performance of CGES executive committee member Viktor Ullmann’s The Emperor of Sharon Pucker Rivo,‘61 was featured Atlantis or Death Quits and Brandeis prominently in the Brandeis Ph.D. Richard Beaudoin’s The After- Magazine’s fall edition for her Image. We hope all Brandeis faculty and pioneering work at the National students who are in the Boston area in Center for Jewish Film. Go to early January will take advantage of free http://www.brandeis.edu/magazine/20 tickets to the Boston Lyric Opera’s 10/fall.to read the complete article. signature series event on January 9th at Please note that the National Center 2pm in the Museum of Fine Arts. For enjoyed a tour of the construction for Jewish film will be hosting its more details, see Upcoming Events on site during his first visit to the annual film festival Jewishfilm2011 in the last page of this newsletter. Brandeis campus. The CGES March this year—a month earlier than Here’s to wishing you all a fun and office can be found on Level 2 of in the past. Visit successful 2011! the new building, in what is called www.brandeis.edu/jewishfilm/ for up- “pod 225”. The new Mandel to-date information. Center building offers not only We are sorry to lose Nancy Angoff as adequate office space and a a member of our executive committee. conference room for staff and Nancy has been a steadfast supporter executive committee meetings. It of CGES in the office of corporate Sabine von Mering also has a beautiful reading room and foundation relations for many on the top floor adjacent to a small years. She will be starting her new roof garden where CGES position at MIT in January, for which celebrated its Welcome-Back- we wish her the best of luck! Nancy Reception with Bretzels, music, was instrumental in connecting Inside In Review 2010 and Apfelschorle on October 4th. Brandeis with the Otto and Fran Greetings from the Director 2 Other changes include transitions Walter Foundation, a foundation in our CGES team, as three of our dedicated to improving German- Stories from Front page 3 experienced student assistants, American relations. An excerpt from including Miranda Neubauer, ’10, the foundation’s website highlights Jewish German Dialogue 4 Larissa Liebmann, ’10, and the synergies between graduate student assistant Tim Climatechange Campusweeks 6 Neunzig, MBA’10 left us to pursue new adventures. Events Highlights 9 Upcoming Events 11 CGES In Review 2010

Right Wing Radicalism: A 3 Transatlantic Perspective communism is still experienced as a University of Nebraska, Omaha, has major defeat in parts of the former studied right wing extremist hate Othmar Ploeckinger opened the , and in times of economic groups up close and personal. As in conference with the question how to deal hardship and insecurity the traditional his book American Swastika: Inside with ’s 1929 book Mein values of ethnic identity and solidarity the White Power Movement’s Kampf today. Ploeckinger is part of a espoused by the right wing extremists Hidden Spaces of Hate, Simi gave a team of experts at the university of make for a particularly fertile breeding chilling account of the everyday life Munich that are undertaking a critical ground. Peter Niesen, Professor of of white supremacist families. edition of the text in the hope of Political Theory and History of Ideas at Finally, Chip Berlet, Senior Analyst circumventing its utilization by young the Technical University of Darmstadt, at Political Research Associates in extremist groups. Copies of Mein Kampf who was a visiting fellow at the Center Boston, presented his assessment of are currently not available for purchase for European Studies at Harvard this the tea party’s recent arrival on the in Germany, but the copyright, currently year, described the controversies right wing political spectrum in the held by the Bavarian government, is due surrounding attempts to “ban the US. Berlet, who made it clear that he to expire in 2012. Historians in former ruling party” in countries did not intend to equate the tea party digging out of dictatorships. Such bans, movement with neo-Nazi Niesen explained, can backfire when organizations, showed instead the the movement is strong enough to boundaries between those who get reorganize. David Art, Assistant mobilized to fight against what they Professor in Political Science at Tufts perceive as “big government” and

University, concluded the European panel with a comparison of successes and failures of different radical right movements in Europe. The groups’ organizational skills Ploeckinger’s group are urging the seemed often the most government to support their efforts. In his important determining overview of right wing populism in factor, Art said. Germany since WWII, Hans-Gerd Jaschke, Kathleen Blee, Professor of Political Science at the School of Business and Law explained how Distinguished Professor of Sociology at those who join organized militias. the movement had regrouped at different the University of Pittsburgh, opened the Berlet’s inclusion in the conference times due to legal restrictions and a American panel with a careful look at had drawn protests from tea party changing political landscape. Jaschke personal stories of extremists in the US: members, some of which attended the delineated how right wing radicals that “Which Comes First: Thinking Like a conference. The poster announcing clashed with student protestors in the 1960s Racist or Acting Like a Racist?” Blee, the conference had also drawn became reenergizedwith the influx of whose books Inside Organized Racism: criticism, as it initially depicted a disgruntled communists after the Berlin wall Women in the Hate Movement and swastika inside a negation sign. CGES came down. Women of the Klan: Racism and subsequently removed the offending Joachim Kersten, University Professor at Gender in the 1920s are considered image and apologized. The event was the German University for Police in ground-breaking studies of right wing co-sponsored by the International Münster presented a comparative analysis of extremist women, highlighted the Center for Ethics, Justice and Public right-wing extremism, anti-Semitism, and extremist women, highlighted the Life, the Department of Sociology, the hate crimes in , the Ukraine, and individual narratives in her talk. Like Program in Social Justice and Social Russia. Kersten, who is working with Blee, Pete Simi, Associate Professor in Policy, and the History of Ideas Kerstin Henkel on a larger study of the the School of Ciminology and Criminal Program. region, pointed out how the breakdown of Justice at the

CGES In Review 2010 Jewish German Dialogue

There Were Many 4 Babi Yars

March 17, 2010 Monika The Life and Work Renninger The Northeast Regional Director of Marie Munk of Amnesty International, Joshua Rubenstein, came to Brandeis to talk about his latest research and April 8, 2010 the publication of the Unknown A Jew, a lawyer, a champion for Black Book that chronicles the social justice. The perfect topic Nazi crimes in the former Soviet for a talk at Brandeis University. Union. “Between June of 1941 Marion Roewekamp, historian and January of 1942 … the and lawyer by training and Germans had already murdered a Developing Christian-- visiting fellow at Harvard million Jews in occupied Soviet University’s Minda de Gunzburg Jewish-Muslim territories,” Rubenstein Center for European Studies, Trialogue in explained. Yet many of those in joined students and faculty for a the Einsatzgruppen who Stuttgart Germany talk about her ongoing research perpetrated the crimes received into the life of one of the first minimal prison sentences, if any, female judges in Weimar February 24, 2010 during the various Nuremberg Germany, Marie Munk. Munk’s trials. pioneering work for women’s and During the spring semester 2010, Monika family rights was cut short when Renninger was a visiting scholar in the she lost her position as a family Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Letters From judge under the ‘Aryanization ‘ department at Brandeis. In her regular life, rules applied by the Nazi regime. Reverend Renninger is senior pastor at a Chicago Munk, who grew up in a Jewish large urban Protestant church in Stuttgart March 24, 2010 household, emigrated to where, among many other things, she has Massachusetts and continued her been engaged in interfaith dialogue in a Uta Larkey, Associate Professor work on this side of the Atlantic. religiously, culturally and socio- of German and Holocaust Studies Roewekamp already published a economically diverse neighborhood for dictionary of women lawyers in at Goucher College and visiting several years. Renninger, who completed scholar at the Hadassah Brandeis 2005. Her second book on her theological studies at the University of Institute joined the dialogue German female lawyers is due out Tübingen, the University of Heidelberg, in spring of 2010. group for a discussion of Sibylle and Harvard's Divinity School, described Tiedemann’s newest film Letters the dialogues she had been able to arrange from Chicago. between members of Jewish, Muslim, and Christian congregations in her neighborhood: “We have to focus on our Uta Larkey Marion Roewekamp common humanity” Renninger concluded, “that also includes learning from our differences.”

CGES In Review 2010 Jewish German Dialogue

Adolf Hitler, the Men of Dialogue in Transition: 5 the List Regiment, and Germany and Its Jews the First World War Kinderland Ist Abgebrannt October 12, 2010 November 10, 2010 Thomas Weber, Professor of European and International History German filmmaker Sibylle at the University of Aberdeen, Tiedemann brought her award- introduced his new book Adolf winning film Kinderland ist Hitler, the Men of the List Regiment, Abgebrannt to Brandeis in and the First World War. Weber commemoration of the 1938 explored the effect WWI had on the ‘Kristallnacht’ pogrom night. In politicization and radicalization of the documentary film, which Hitler and his closest associates. He received the German film prize in Sergey Lagodinsky showed that contrary to myths 1998, Tiedemann interviews perpetuated by the Nazi party, women in their 70s who once neither Hitler himself nor his attended high school together comrades in the list regiment can be October 18, 2010 with Sophie Scholl (member of considered particularly radicalized the resistance group The White by their experience in WWI. Indeed, Sergey Lagodinsky, a lawyer and Rose) in Ulm, Germany. The many still voted conservative author living in Berlin, was born in Jewish classmates emigrated to mainstream parties in post-war the former Soviet Union and came America, the others , with varying elections. The event was co- to Berlin, Germany with his enthusiasm for the Nazi regime, Sponsored by The Department of parents as part of the ‘contingent’ stayed behind. All were preparing History, The Department of Near of Jewish immigrants in the 1990s. for their first-ever reunion. In Eastern and Judaic Studies, and The During the fall of 2010 Lagodinsky individual and group interviews, Mandel Humanities Center. spent a semester as a World Fellow Tiedemann opens up a difficult at Yale University. In his address conversation about the past. to the joint meeting of the Boston area Jewish-German dialogue groups he layed out the situation of Jewish communities in Germany today. The event was co- sponsored by The Brandeis Genesis Institute for Russian Jewry and the Mandel Humanities Center.

On January 24, 2010 Sibylle Tiedemann will be honored with the Obermayer Jewish Community History Award at the Berlin parliament.

Thomas Weber in the new Mandel Center Reading Room CGES In Review 2010 Climatechange Campusweeks: Our Choices Matter

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Students in Melanie Sherwood’s German conversation class researched Green issues in Germany and produced posters highlighting Judith Juliet Njoka (Heller School) issues such as transportation and political agendas.

The Brandeis debate team dazzled guests at the green unity gala with a spirited debate about whether or not Germany (and other countries) should expand or discontinue the use of nuclear energy. The events succeeded in bringing together many different people on campus who want to move Brandeis’ environmental initiatives forward. The Center for German and European Studies is grateful Illona Yuhaev coordinated for the support from the German Embassy students from the Brandeis film and hopes to participate in the club who produced campusweeks again next year—when the Green Unity Gala MCs Tara Loeber and documentary films about the topic will be “The German Language”. Jonathan Jecker events, and students in Laura Goldin’s Greening the Ivory Tower class tackled a number of innovative projects to bring “change to your neighborhood”, beautifully documented in the film by Yifan Wang that won first prize in the campusweeks’ “Green Shot” competition.

Professor Eric Olson explains the bike for light President Fred Lawrence chatting with students at the Green Unity Gala

Judith Juliet Njoka (Heller School)

More information about Professor Lange's work in Tanzania: http://www.brandeis.edu/now/2010/november/boblange.html Green Unity Gala photographer: Ingrid Schulte, '13

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Chances and Challenges of Becoming Low-Carbon Societies November 30, 2010

“How do modern democracies drivers of progress”.Von Thadden new scientists and created a human become low-carbon societies?” was concluded by highlighting the Danish capital infrastructure. One lesson the question of an interdisciplinary capital Copenhagen thathas become the from this was that “rapid build-up is conversation between a humanist-- first carbon-neutral capital in the a bad idea”. The third example was Elisabeth von Thadden (DIE ZEIT) Western world where 55% of residents probably the most applicable here: and an economist—Adam Jaffe travel only by bike. the invention of semiconductors, (Brandeis Dean of Arts and Sciences Adam Jaffe began by suggesting that his computers, software: “If you think and Fred C.Hecht Professor of perspective would perhaps be a bit less about what we need to change in Economics). Von Thadden began the optimistic. Instead of studying human the next 40 years, this is the most conversation by referring to the behavior, economists focused on new comparable transformation in how invention of the Junkers water heater technologies and policies: “What we do things.” For this to succeed, over 100 years ago that revolutionized the government had spent a lot of “energy consuming habits” in money over decades, purchasing Germany. In her view, in order for new digital technology, creating such transformation to be successful it new markets. “It wasn’t their goal had to allow for self-determination to create a new society, but in the and democratic consent. process of doing so they did”, Jaffe “Transformation is possible if observed. He concluded suggesting technical invention helps a society and that a gradual increase of gives it what it wants” von Thadden government scientific support for explained. Autonomy, equality, and energy research with the inclusion modernity were important ingredients of training grants should be the for success. The most recent example most promising approach. Given that she mentioned are that currently more than half of ‘Zuhausekraftwerk’ powerstations that publicly funded research was spent in the field of health sciences, there provide households with independent economists talk about is: What policies certainly seeme to be room for sources of heating and electricity, a about ‘the price of carbon’ do we need?” improvement. Still, Jaffe cautioned: new product from the German However, it is also clear that raising the “We should view these policies as company Lichtblick. “We have known price of carbon alone would not achieve experiments and include for 40 years that we need to reduce the reductions needed. Even to stabilize evaluations. We must use the time carbon emissions, but we haven’t world emissions, the US would have to we have wisely.” really done anything” von Thadden reduce its own emissions significantly: observed. “We need ‘transformative technological “People purchase goods for their change’”. The problem was that “radical social meaning”. We want to be transformative change is hard to control original, want novelty, want to find a or plan for.” place in the world and be the owner of Jaffe then presented some lessons from the most advanced technology. The the past: The Manhattan and Apollo force of habit is very strong, far projects, which took a decade and cost stronger than a modern society wants about $140billion. Both had very to admit. We need “choice architects”, specific, narrow objectives. Their including legislation that supports purpose was not to change the way wise frameworks and makes you more society operates. His second example reasonable than you would be by was the war on cancer, which drew yourself. But we also need billions of Dollars into the NIH budget, a trailblazers, because history shows large part of which was spent on training that “convincing practice of minorities Sponsor of Solar Cell finds imitators. Small groups are CGES In Review 2010 7 More on Climate Change at Brandeis

October 18, 2010 8 Communicating February 22, 2010 Climate Change: Problems and Strategies Copenhagen and the The question how the reality of Challenges for climate change can be successfully International communicated was the subject of April 15, 2010 Franz Mauelshagen’s presentation. Collaboration on Climate A historian by training and a Change research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities International Energy in Essen, Mauelshagen described how much easier it is for climate Security and Climate change denialists to reject Change scientific explanations in part because the periods in question are Klaus Dieter Barbknecht, CEO too large to observe. “We can handle of Verbundnetz Gas and visiting a month, a year, ten years. Even a lecturer at Tufts University’s generation. Anything beyond 100 Fletcher School, spoke about years becomes blurred.” What was the issue of Energy security and needed, Mauelshagen suggested, the world’s continued reliance was a multi-disciplinary approach. on fossil fuels. Introduced by Climate change must be studied not Arpad van Lazar, himself a only by scientists, but also by distinguished Professor humanists and social scientists. Emeritus from the Fletcher Artists, too, had an important role to School, Barbknecht explained play in making the invisible dangers the rapid expansion of the use of climate change visible. Arne Jungjohann from the Heinrich of natural gas in the German Boell Foundation in Washington, D.C. economy and highlighted its joined campus environmentalists to environmental benefits. The discuss his experience at the UN event was co-sponsored with the Climate Summit in Copenhagen. Perlmutter Institute for Global Jungjohann began his presentation by Business Leadership. asking whether people thought the Copenhagen meeting had been a success. The majority of his listeners shook their heads. Jungjohann went on to point out what the summit had achieved. Although he agreed that it only represented "limited success", Jungjohann said the fact that the Copenhagen Accord represented a compromise between European environmentalists, developing nations, and climate change critics in the US should not be underestimated. At least there was agreement reached that global temperatures must not increase CGES In Review 2010 more than 2 degrees Celsius compared to 1990 levels. That was a start. Events Highlights January 2, 2010 to Afghanistan, but so far none succeeded. Claudia Schuett University of Bonn, and Catherine AFGHANISTAN—the explained the German government’s L.Mann from Brandeis’ International strategy in Afghanistan and spoke Business school, faced off to discuss “NECESSARY” War about her own experience working the isparity. Mann challenged with women in rural areas around Zimmermann by presenting statistics Kabul. She highlighted the need to that suggested that Germans had support local efforts, improve experienced sustained economic infrastructure, schooling, and restart growth over a period of several years economic growth. Asadullah but German consumers did not go out Passoon seconded Schuett’s words, and buy German products. Instead, emphasizing the desire on the part of Germany continued to rely heavily on many Afghans for peace, and the its exports. “Why don’t the Germans need to strengthen Afghan security spend their money? Why do they rely forces first and foremost. During the on us buying their products?” Mann discussion a number of Afghani asked pointedly. Zimmermann students in the audience shared their suggested that the explanation would perspective onto the conflict and have to be found in a historical asked how the international analysis going farther into the past community will address growing As president Obama concluded his than just ten years. The ‘belt- corruption in the government and the first year in office, CGES Brandeis tightening’ undertaken by the Taliban control throughout the hosted a panel of experts to discuss Schroeder-government in terms of country. the situation in Afghanistan. We reduction of benefits was largely to be invited Claudia Schuett, Deputy credited for today’s growth, he Consul General at the Consulate explained. But most importantly there General of the Federal Republic of October 20, 2010 had of course been a tremendous Germany in New England who had stimulus package at the height of the been stationed at the German crisis. Listeners suggested that Embassy in Kabul in 2003/04, and German Austerity cultural differences must be taken into Asbed Kotchikian, Associate vs US Stimulus? consideration as well. Contrary to Professor of Politics at Bentley people in the US, “Germans tend to be a lot more risk-averse” one woman University, a specialist on the Soviet While the US keeps struggling to period in the region. The two were noted. The use of credit cards is still prevent unemployment figures from relatively rare in Germany, while joined by Asadullah Passoon, escalating, Germany has been graduate student from Afghanistan at personal savings accounts are full. experiencing a The event was co-sponsored by the the International Business School at sustained economic Brandeis. Kotchikian began with Rosenberg Institute of Global Finance boom in 2010 despite and the International and Global the growing financial Studies Program. insecurity in a struggling Euro zone. At a meeting of the G- 20 in the summer of 2010, German and European representatives advocated austerity measures and rejected President Obama’s plea for a joint a brief historical overview of the economic stimulus conflict and an introduction to the program. Klaus F. multifaceted structure of Afghan Zimmermann, politics and society. Many have economist at the tried, he concluded, to bring peace CGES In Review 2010 9 Events Highlights November 2, 2010 November 12, 2010 10 On November 3rd, CGES co- hosted German Ambassador The Building of a Muslim Does Austrian Klaus Scharioth together with Community and Germany’s Literature Exist—and if the Perlmutter Institute for Global Business Leadership. Multicultural Society so, why not? Notes on Scharioth, who remembered an Obstinate Myth playing soccer against Brandeis International Business School In her tongue-in-cheek Dean Bruce Magid during their assessment of Germans’ student years at Tufts, relationship to Austrian highlighted the urgent need for literature, Sigrid Löffler shared global cooperation on a number of issues, from financial regulations to nuclear disarmament to climate change. Scharioth praised the Obama administration for moving forward on a number of foreign- Riem Spielhaus, currently a research policy issues. Speaking at fellow at the Centre for Brandeis on the day after the European Islamic Thought in midterm elections, Scharioth Copenhagen discussed the said he does not expect major international reaction to German changes in US foreign policy in chancellor Angela Merkel’s comment the next two years, given that, that integration had failed in contrary to domestic issues, the White House has a lot of Germany. She described the context independence from Congress of Merkel’s speech and claimed that insights into her work as one of when it comes to foreign affairs. Merkel was largely misrepresented by Germany’s most highly-reputed You can also read about the the press. Compared to other literary critics. While Austrian visit in the Global Brandeis chancellors before her, Merkel, literature clearly served a specific BLOG: having raised the power of the function in the German market, http://blogs.brandeis.edu/global integration commissioner and created which is economically essential to brandeis/2010/11/04/lunch- the “integration summit”, had actually its very survival, its function within with-the-german-ambassador- quite a good track record with Muslim Austrian society is much more to-the-u-s/. communities in Germany, Spielhaus controversial. Löffler highlighted said: “I don’t see the anger having any how works by Thomas Bernhard, legitimacy”. However, immigrants Elfriede Jelinek, Peter Handke, and were “becoming Muslims through the Ingeborg Bachmann, among others, debate.” Being Muslim should allow had served to unearth and confront for more diversity: “I want Islam not the country’s silences. only to be represented by the religious orthodox. We have very different ideas about what a Muslim should look like.” Asked whether the soccer November 3, 2010 player Oezil could serve as a positive role model, Riemhaus noted that in the past Turkish-German soccer players had been denied access to the German Ambassador German team and were forced to play for other countries instead. Today, Scharioth at Brandeis however, there was even “reverse migration”—university graduates going back to Turkey. 9 CGES In Review 2010 Preview of Upcoming Events in 2011

On January 28th CGES will co- 1976. Her books include How We host a symposium with Stephan Survived Communism and Even Pennington from Tufts University’s Laughed. Drakulic now lives in Music program about the 1930s a Sweden, having had to flee Croatia capella group The Comedian in the 1990s. Harmonists. The group is still considered the most famous a capella group in Germany today. It Save the date for a vibrant program was only through the popular film by of new films and classic cinematic Joseph Vilsmaier (1997) that the treasures from around the world that CGES is proud to co-sponsor a very special story of the group’s experience he Boston Phoenix calls “one of the event this spring. Richard Beaudoin, who under the Nazi became more widely season’s cinematic highlights.” received his Ph.D. from Brandeis in music known. Students interested in a Jewishfilm.2011 premiere composition in 2007 and is now Lecturer of capella music are especially screenings will include Cabaret Music at Harvard University was encouraged to attend. For more Berlin: The Wild Scene, a commissioned by Boston Lyric Opera to information, please contact Mark sumptuous new French documentary write a chamber opera to be performed in Kagan in the music department at on the Weimer Berlin cabaret scene; conjunction with Viktor Ullmann’s The [email protected]. on the Couch, a witty and Emperor of Atlantis, or Death Quits. sexy new German feature film Ullmann wrote the opera during his time of Vivian Liska, Professor of German examination ’s incarceration at the Theresienstadt Literature and Director of the relationship with his tempestuous concentration camp before he was killed in Institute of Jewish Studies at the wife, Alma, whose affair with Auschwitz. The Boston Lyric Opera University of Antwerp, Belgium. Walter Gropius sent Mahler to performances of Beaudoin’s The After Author of a number of books about ’s couch; and Singing Image and Ullmann’s work are scheduled European Modernism, including in the Dark, a quirky combination of for February 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 (2pm matinee), When Kafka says We. Uncommon 1950s movie conventions—the 2011 at the Calderwood Pavilion at the Communities in German-Jewish musical, gangster movie—and one BCA, 527 Tremont Street, Boston. CGES Literature (2009). On April 6 she of the first American films to will be sponsoring “Rehearsal at will be speaking at Brandeis about dramatize the Holocaust, newly Theresienstadt, 1944” with composer her ongoing work on Franz Kafka restored in 35mm by The National Beaudoin and several other artists involved and Philosophy. Center For Jewish Film. For more in the production on January 9, 2011 from 2 information: www.jewishfilm.org or to 3pm in the Remis Auditorium at the 781.736.8600. Museum of Fine Arts. For more information, please visit http://www.blo.org/2010- 2011_annex.html (the January 9 event is free for Brandeis faculty and students). CGES In Review is published by the Center for German and European Studies at Brandeis University MS058, P.O. Box 549110, Waltham, MA 02454-9110 Overall responsibility and On April 13, CGES will be hosting editorial matters: Sabine von noted Croatian writer and publicist Mering Slavenka Drakulic who will talk Design: Yan Zhang (Linda) about The Legend of the Berlin Wall – As Presented by a Mole. Born For inquiries: 1949 in Croatia, Drakulic represents phone (781) 736-2756, the post-war generation of writers fax (781) 736-8140 who grew up in what was then email: [email protected] Jugoslavia. She graduated in comparative literature and sociology http://www.brandeis.edu/cges Richard Beaudoin Vivian Liska from the University in Zagreb in CGES In Review 2010 11