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> Subject: International Summer University course in Political Sciences: "Berlin: East meets West"
> Date: 02 June 1999 13:55
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> The Freie Universitaet Berlin (Germany) has the pleasure to offer to you an
> International Summer University courses in Political Sciences on
>
> "Berlin: East meets West"
>
>
> The International Summer University will take place from July 31st through
> August 27th 1999.
>
> This course will be taught by our faculty member Prof. Dr. Ralf Rytlewski.
> He is Professor of Political Science at Freie Universität Berlin. He has
> taught at the Universities of München, Seoul, St. Petersburg and Berlin. His
> fields of research are comparative politics, urban politics, comparative
> political culture. His recent publications include ‘Political Culture in
> Germany’ (co-edited with Dirk Berg-Schlosser), London 1993.
>
> The language of instruction will be English.
>
> Course description:
> Berlin is an extreme example of rapid urban growth during the late
> 19th
> century. This rapid growth was primarily due to industrial expansion
> but it
> was conditioned by the political structure of the newly-founded
> German
> Empire. Berlin started to change tremendously and continuously when
> Germany’s political order was attacked and interrupted several times
> during
> the 20th century. The success of German democracy which grew out of
> German defeat and revolution was interrupted in 1930 due to the
> broadening anti-parliamentary consensus resulting from the impact of
> economic depression and Hitler’s nationalist agitation. In May 1945,
> the
> Thousand Year Reich lay in ruins. Berlin lost all of its political
> functions. The
> “gentle revolution” in East Berlin and East Germany from August to
> November 1989 inaugurated a process of definite change in the
> post-Yalta-world: the dismantling of the Iron Curtain between the two
> Germanys, the destruction of the Berlin Wall, and the subsequent
> unification
> of the former Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic
> Republic.
> Following unification, Berlin became the center of a new “common
> European house”. Within the next several years, the Federal
> Government
> and Federal Parliament will move from Bonn to booming Berlin. This
> will
> be a new beginning for Berlin as a capital, as a bridge between
> Western
> and Eastern Europe, and as an intellectual and cultural metropolis.
> Here all
> the problems of integrating East and West can be found to an extreme
> extend: a European city in transformation.
> Excursions are planned to historical institutions and places (e.g.
> the
> Reichstag, the Potsdamer Platz), museums (Checkpoint Charlie, the
> German Historical Museum) as well as to various other points of
> special
> interest.
>
> The tuition for this course is DM 1,200.-. There is an additional onetime
> registration fee of DM 150.-. Besides the above mentioned course we offer 14
> other fully-credited courses covering topics on Berlin, Germany, and Europe.
>
> More information on this course and the International Summer University in
> general can be obtained from the Internet at
> http://www.fu-berlin.de/summeruniversity.
>
> Contact person:
> Mr. Jens Westerfeld M.A.
> Freie Universitaet Berlin
> Department of International Affairs
> Kaiserswerther Str. 16-18
> 14195 Berlin
> Germany
> Tel.: +49 30 838 73 445
> Fax: +49 30 838 73 444
> Email: mailto:[log in to unmask]
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> Jens Westerfeld M.A.
> FUBiS-Koordination
>
> Freie Universität Berlin
> Abt. IV
> Kaiserswerther Str. 16-18
> 14195 Berlin
> Germany
> Tel.: +49 30 838 73 445
> Fax: +49 30 838 73 444
> Email: [log in to unmask]
>
> Please visit the FUBiS web site on the internet:
> http://www.fu-berlin.de/summeruniversity/
> Bitte besuchen Sie unsere Homepage im Internet:
> http://www.fu-berlin.de/summeruniversity/
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