FULBRIGHT KOMMISSION Fulbright Berlin Seminar “What a Journey!” March 26-30, 2017 Program Notes 2017 Program Notes1 Sunday, March 26 Dear Fellow Fulbrighters, Conference Registration 12:00 – 5:00 pm Location: Motel One Berlin-Tiergarten Since its inception more than 70 years ago, the Fulbright program has moved over 400,000 U.S. and international fellows. Of these, more Berlin City Tours: Berlin in Transition 3:00 – 4:30/5:00 pm than 45,000 participants – just like you – have embarked on a personal Note: Buses depart in front of Motel One journey across the Atlantic. The crossing of continents has often turned into an adventure, a coming Take a journey through Berlin and learn more about of age and encounter with oneself – propelling the voluntary migrants to the city’s history. On this journey, you will pass by reconsider themselves and as a result discovering aspirations to become a venues of transition, departure and arrival and more educated, a more tolerant, and a more caring citizen of this world. learn more about the American presence, past and Senator J. William Fulbright, himself an early traveler to Great Britain, present, in Berlin. Your journey includes some of underlined the challenge to expose oneself to other cultures in order to the following landmarks: better understand one´s own country and personality. War and Renewal Your trip to Berlin for this seminar is yet another opportunity for us Nikolaiviertel, Gendarmenmarkt, Potsdamer Platz/ all to compare notes and observations, to present our work and ask for Sony Center, Unter den Linden, U.S. Embassy, frank feed-back, and to meet exciting peers, while moving around this Kurfürstendamm, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche Berlin Wall/Reunification vibrant city of Berlin. Having chosen the motif of “the journey” for this year´s seminar, we East Side Gallery, Berlin City Hall, encourage you to share the experience of both your academic and your Brandenburg Gate, German Parliament Train stations/former border crossings personal Fulbright “travels” with each other, just as Mark Twain and his “Innocents Abroad“ did in order to reach a new destination. Checkpoint Charlie, Palace of Tears, Train Station “Ostbahnhof”, Main Train Station, Train Station We all wish you a productive, collective, and rewarding expedition “Zoologischer Garten” through Europe´s perhaps most Americanized metropolis, or simply a wonderful time in Germany´s capital city. Welcome 6:00 – 6:45 pm Welcome to the 63rd Fulbright Berlin Seminar and Location: Urania, Humboldt-Saal (2nd floor) Herzlich Willkommen in Berlin! Live Music with Coisa Linda followed by remarks from Dr. Oliver Schmidt On behalf of the Fulbright Commission Executive Director, German-American Fulbright Commission Florian Grigoleit, Dr. Oliver Schmidt German Fulbright Alumni Association Executive Director Rolf-Dieter Schnelle, The Association of Friends & Sponsors of German- American Fulbright Program 2 Program Notes 2017 3 1st Artistic Intervention: “Journey to your Fulbright´s Journey: 2:30 – 4:30 pm Neighbor” Jürg Montalta, Swiss Artist Quo Vadis, Transatlantic Exchange? Raum Marie Curie (4th floor) until 8:45 pm Dinner Buffet and Live Music with Coisa Linda Dr. Sabine Jung, Owner and Founder of Professional Philanthropy Monday, March 27 Judith Maiers, Project Manager, Fulbright Commission 10:00 – 10:45 am Starting Event: A Fulbright Journey-Quo Vadis? Location: Urania, Humboldt-Saal (2nd floor) Meet in hotel lobby for bus transfer to University 5:15 – 5:30 pm Moderator: Dr. Oliver Schmidt, Executive of the Arts, Hardenbergstraße, 10623 Berlin Director, German-American Fulbright Commission Fulbright Ceremony: “What A Journey!” 6:00 – 9:00 pm “Kick Off” with Brent Goff, Chief News Anchor at Deutsche Welle News, Berlin, Fulbright Alumnus Welcome Dr. Oliver Schmidt, Executive Director, 2nd Artistic Intervention: My Fulbright Journey German-American Fulbright Commission Jürg Montalta, Swiss Artist Fulbrighters in Action 10:45 – 11:45 am Discussion Groups Erin Netoskie, Wildlife Conservation, Vienna, Austria Rooms as assigned Bridget Kinneary, Teaching, Berlin-Erkner, Germany Please check your name tag for your discussion group! Dr. Robin Shelton, Astrophysics, Berlin, Germany Brian Li, Solar Cells, Madrid, Spain 12:00 – 12:30 pm Reporting back Humboldt-Saal (2nd floor) Musical Journey I Kurt Weill (1900-1950) “What Good Would the 12:30 – 2:00 pm Lunch Moon Be?” from the opera Street Scene Bistro/Foyers Traditional Spiritual arr. by Moses Hogan (1957-2003) “Walk Together Children” 1:00 – 3:00 pm The Social Sciences in Transition: Désirée Brodka, soprano | Joseph Nykiel, piano Brown Bag Lunch at the WZB, Germany‘s leading social science research center Fulbright Calling Location: The Berlin Social Science Center, David M. Reinert, Minister-Counselor Reichpietschufer 50, 10785 Berlin for Public Affairs Note: Workshop participants meet in front of the Embassy of the United States of America, Chair, Urania at 12:40 pm German-American Fulbright Commission Heidrun Tempel, Director for Research and 2:30 – 4:30 pm Paradise Now – Second Journey to New Ways of Academic and Cultural Relations Communication Federal Foreign Office, Vice Chair, Jürg Montalta, Swiss Artist German-American Fulbright Commission Raum Pasteur (4th floor) 4 Program Notes 2017 5 Composition for 650 Voices Coffee Break 11:30 am Jürg Montalta, Swiss Artist Berlin Government Welcome 12:00 pm The Cottrell-Fulbright Award 2017 Location: Berlin City Hall, Großer Saal Ministerialdirigent Peter Greisler, Federal Ministry Sawsan Chebli, Under Secretary for of Education and Research Active Citizenship and International Relations Prof. Dr. Jairo Sinova, University of Mainz and Cottrell Awardee 2006 Lunch 1:00 – 1:30 pm for Icebreakers, Warm-ups and Energizers: Group 1:30 – 3:00 pm Prof. Dr. Ute Hellmich, Games for Participatory Environments Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz Location: Berlin City Hall, Großer Saal Prof. Dr. Steffen Schumann, Moderator: Bernd Riedel, Creative Strategist, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Ellery Studio Berlin, Fulbright Alumnus Musical Journey II Late afternoon and evening free for individual George Gershwin (1898-1937) exploration of Berlin “Stairway to Paradise” from An American in Paris Harold Arlen (1905-1986) “Over the Rainbow from” The Wizard of Oz Wednesday, March 29 Désirée Brodka, soprano | Joseph Nykiel, piano Workshop for Teaching Assistants: Living your 9:30 am – 12:00 pm Reception Grant Year to its Fullest with Hagen Möller Quartet featuring Tobias Degen Location: Urania, Raum Edison, (3rd floor) Tuesday, March 28 Moderators: Brandon Bohrn, Anna Irvine and Colby Woods, 9:15 am Meet in hotel lobby for transfer to Berlin City Hall Fulbright Alumni 10:00 – 11:30 am European Dimensions Panel Workshop for Students: En Route 66: 10:30 am – 12:00 pm Location: Berlin City Hall, Großer Saal Milemarkers, Destinations, and Getting Directions Moderator: Shane McMillan, Documentary Location: Urania, Kleist-Saal Photographer and Filmmaker, Fulbright Alumnus Moderators: Franziska Brunner, Fulbright grantees, currently in European countries: Kurt Bassuener, Claire Rhee and Sydney Ramirez Robin Cathey, Hungary Fulbright Grantees Tyler McKechnie, Spain Kenna Rewcastle, Sweden Joshua Vera, Greece Aviva Ben-Ur, The Netherlands 6 Program Notes 2017 7 2:00 – 4:30 pm Concluding Event: Project Presentations GENERAL INFORMATION Location: Urania, Humboldt-Saal Moderator: Reiner Rohr, Fulbright Commission Fulbright Staff Special Guest: Ellias El Tahiri, Fulbright Alumnus Claudia Adams, Renee Burke, Monique Getter, Jana Grüttmüller, Catharina Hänsch, Ines Horbert, Kerstin Klopp-Koch, Judith Maiers, Thomas Mutzke, 4th and Last Artistic Intervention: Antje Outhwaite, Inga Pötzl, Reiner Rohr, Dr. Oliver Schmidt, Charlotte Capturing the Essence? Securius-Carr, Carolin Weingart-Ridoutt, Jennifer Witt-Klebbe and our Jürg Montalta, Swiss Artist intern Hazel Bryan 4:30 – 5:00 pm “Kaffee und Kuchen” Conference Registration Location: Urania, Bistro/Foyers If you miss the official registration, please pick up your Welcome Folder at Motel One´s front desk. 6:30 pm – Farewell Party: Dinner and Dance Midnight Location: Alte Pumpe, Lützowstraße 42, Transportation 10785 Berlin Transportation to certain events will be provided by chartered buses that will pick you up in front of Motel One Berlin-Tiergarten. Please see the schedule Arrive and return on your own for details regarding these events. For all other trips, we recommend using public transportation in Berlin. Thursday, March 30 A “Tageskarte” AB (day pass) costs 7.00 € and is good for all modes of transportation. You can buy day passes at ticket vending machines. After breakfast individual check out and departure Zone C is only necessary if you are going to Potsdam or to Schönefeld of participants Airport. For more information about fares, please go to www.bvg.de. Meals Additional Event for Teaching Assistants Breakfast will be provided every morning starting at 6:30 am in the restaurant on the first floor (Erdgeschoss) of Motel One. Dinner (buffet-style 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Working with Marginal Communities: ETA with both meat and vegetarian options) will be provided as stated in the Challenges program schedule. There are numerous and varied lunch options at and Moderation: Fulbright alumni experts in the field around Urania. Location: Urania, Rooms Kleist-Saal, Kepler-Saal, Salon Einstein (2nd floor) Dress Code Special Guest: Dr. Lisa Bernstein, European and There will be several more formal events during the week