The Topography of Translation in the Middle Ages
Prof. Charles Burnett, The Warburg Institute, London
7 - 17.6.2010
The course will explore how the culture of different regions in Europe and the Middle East contributed to the production of translations into Latin from Greek, Hebrew and Arabic in mathematics, natural science and medicine, from the tenth until the mid-thirteenth century, and the trace how these translations were subsequently assimilated into the teaching and practice of scientific disciplines in Europe. Each seminar will take a different region: 1) Catalonia, 2) New Castile and Andalusia, 3) England, 4) Southern France, 5) Tuscany, 6) Sicily, and 7) the Principality of Antioch Kingdom of Jerusalem.
Each of these areas has a different character, reflected in the differences in the works translated there. For example, the area along the border between England and Wales was particularly rich economically, with wealthy monasteries (Llanthony Secunda, Greater Malvern), and flourishing Cathedral Chapters (Gloucester, Worcester and Hereford), as well as therapeutic centres which attracted doctors and a noble clientele from far and wide (Wells and Bath Spa). It thus became a centre for the study of natural science, geometry and astronomy, through the translations and teaching of Adelard of Bath, the Jewish converso Petrus Alfonsi, Walcher of Malvern, Roger of Hereford and Robert of Chester. Barcelona, and the valley of the Ebro, benefitted from the heritage of the petty Islamic kingdom of the Banu Hud of Saragossa, in whose court mathematics had prospered, and from the presence of Jewish scholars whose scientific language was Arabic. Toledo, as the metropolitan see of Spain and the centre of reform of the Spanish Church, attracted scholars from all over Europe. In Tuscany, Pisa, because of its trade stations throughout the Mediterranean, and its close ties with Byzantium, received both Greek and Arabic learning, and the Jewish polymath Abraham Ibn Ezra provided texts on astronomy and astrology for the Christian and Jewish communities of both Pisa and Lucca. The translations made in Sicily in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries reflected the four constituents of its population: Arabs, Greeks, Jews and Latins, while Antioch and Jerusalem benefitted from their proximity to both Greek and Islamic centres of learning. It is noticeable that the impact of the translations was often in centres far removed from where they were made: in Paris, Bologna, Cologne, Toulouse, and Montpellier. Thus the study of the specificity of the locus of translation will be complemented by the exploration of the dissemination of scientific learning in the High Middle Ages and its assimilation into European culture.
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Early Byzantine Architecture
Prof. Lioba Theis, Universität Wien, Institut für Kunstgeschichte
26.5 - 6.6.2010
1. "Late Antique or Early Byzantine?" - The formation of the "New" on the basis of the "Old" (i.e. common architecture of Antiquity)
2. "Is there a profane and a sacred architecture?" - Form and Meaning
3. "Does form follow function?" - Form and Style
4. "Experiential knowledge versus design?" – Measuring and Planning
5. "Churches of stone, but wooden huts?" - On building material and its meaning
6. "Ceiling – Vaulting – Dome – are there constructions comparable to the celestial canopy?" On building construction
7. "Is there a Byzantine Style?" - Reflection on - and reflections of - Byzantine Architecture
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The Enlarged EU and Its European Proximity
Prof. Marc Maresceau, University of Gent, Department of European Law
22.5 - 5.6.2010
The objective of the course is to provide a comparative analysis of the various frameworks of the EU’s relations with its neighbouring countries. The course will be divided into two parts. The first part concentrates on the EU enlargement process as such. The rules and procedure on EU enlargement are explained; an overview is given of the past enlargements with special emphasis on the ‘big bang’ enlargement of 2004 and its ramifications. An important part of the course will be devoted to the relations EU-Turkey and to Turkey as a candidate country for EU accession. The place of the Western Balkans in the EU enlargement context will also be examined. The second part of the course analyses first the relations between the EU and its ‘old neighbours’ : the EFTA countries (Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Switzerland) and the non EFTA micro-States (Andorra, San Marino, Monaco). A large section of the second part is devoted to the EU’s relations with the countries of the former USSR, with special emphasis on the relations EU-Russia.
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Cultural Transfers in European History
Prof. Wolfgang Schmale, Universität Wien, Institut für Geschichte
25 - 29.4.2010
National history or the history of a nation-state is focused on master narratives and the building of the nation’s unity. In general, this scheme has also largely been used with respect to European history. In this regard “European history” or “Europe’s history” is nothing other than the history of growing European Unity. Contemporary European Integration History follows also this approach.
On the other hand, since the 1980ies a new multidisciplinary approach on cultural transfers has infringed first the national master narratives, secondly and more recently, the narrative of European history. Not unity but diversity can be considered as the “proprium” of Europe. Instead of unity, the growing of coherence in the diversity becomes a research topic.
The seminar treats with 7 fields of interest:
1. European unity – deconstruction of a master narrative
2. “Cultural transfers” as a new approach to European history
3. Nation building and the threat to cultural and ethnical diversity
4. Types of cultural transfers in European history
5. Historical mediators: Jews, Armeniens, Germans
6. Religious minorities, exile groups and cultural transfers
7. Europe – “liquid modernity” (Zygmunt Bauman)?
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German Literature after 1945
Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Schrader, Université de Genève, Departement de langue et de littérature allemande
18 - 27.4.2010

The Design of the Euro and the Issue of a Common European Culture
Prof. Alessandro Scafi, The Warburg Institute, University of London
11 - 22.4.2010
The course takes the analysis of the design of the European single currency as the starting point for a wider discussion. The images forming the design of the Euro are hugely familiar to anybody living or travelling in the Euro zone. What do they tell us, however, about the past, the present, and the future of the European Union? Is it possible to analyse banknotes and coins from an aesthetic and symbolic angle? Is it appropriate to look at money looking for deeper meanings? Can the Euro be seen as a significant document in the context of the cultural history and the present state of the process of European integration? What is peculiar to the European single currency compared to other national and super-national currencies? This course is an exploration of the ways in which politics, culture and design intersect and interact.
The iconography of the single currency unveils the terms of a recurrent dilemma in European history and European political thought: how to discern the healthy impetus to improvement from the dangerous illusions of totalitarian visions? This course aims to show how the history of money and its visual appearance is interwoven with social, cultural and political history.
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The Protection of Human Rights in Germany and the EU
Prof. Moris Lehner, Ludwig Maximilian Universität, München, Juristische Fakultät
The course will first give historical, philosophical and systematic insight into the understanding of Human Rights, Basic Rights and Civil Rights as they have been derived from Natural Law and as they had been termed by national and international declarations and codifications. The course will then focus on the protection of Human Rights according to the German Constitution by first giving a general introduction into German Constitutional law presenting the basic principles which establish the Federal Republic of Germany as a democratic and social federal state, bound to the rule of law. The German legal system, the setup and the functioning of the government will also be explained, including the integration of the Federal Republic of Germany in the European Union and in other international organisations. The course will focus in its major part on the codification of Individual Rights in the German Constituition including Constitutional Review by the German Federal Constitutional Court based on important cases (“lifetime imprisonment”; “unsuccessful sterilization”; “mercy killing”; “general right of personality”; “soldiers are murderers”; “Ausschwitz lie”; “Brokdorf nuclear plant”; “downing of hijacked aircrafts in a 9/11 situation”; “wiretapping”; “online investigation of private computers” et al.). The course will also focus on European issues by first presenting major principles of European Law in general. The relationship between Community Law and the protection of Basic Rights and Human Rights as provided by the constitutions of the member states and by theEuropean Convention on Human Rights by focusing on this conventionand on the Charta of Fundamental Rights and Basic Rights as they are included in the new Lisbon Treaty, which is followed by the new Treaty on the European Unionand by the new Treaty on the Funtioning of the European Union. The course will also give an overall comparison and evaluation of individual rights in the European codifications and in the constitutions of the member states.
7 - 21.3.2010
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The Long Voyage Home? – Seven Lectures on German Unification
Prof. Ullrich Heilemann, Universität Leipzig, Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung
21.2 - 6.3.2010
Lectures:
1. Introduction – Germany today:  a country of discontents?  The Federal Republic 20 years after ”Wende” and “Vereinigung”
2. The state of affairs – Germany in 2009
3. A short history of two Germanys 1950 to 1989
4. How we came here:  the process of unification 1989-2008
5. Reducing regional inequality – The concept of dual growth Two views on regional inequality & the geography of growth?
6. What went right? What went wrong?
7. Growing together – together growing?  The burdensome future of unification – Summary, and concluding remarks
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NATO and the Middle East
Dr. Rolf Schwarz, NATO Defense College, Middle East Faculty
17 - 22.1.2010
Lectures and Bibliography:
1. Values and Evolution
* Andre de Staercke: NATO's anxious birth. The Prophetic Vision of the 1940s. London: Hurst, 1985.
* Ron D. Asmus: Opening NATO's Door. How the Alliance remade itself for a new era. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.
2. NATO's Mediterranean Initiative
*F Stephan Larrabee et al.: NATO's Mediterranean Initiative: Policy Issues and Dilemmas. Santa Monica: Rand, 1998 .
3. NATO and Gulf Security
*Philip Gordon: Nato's Growing Role in the Greater Middle East . Abu Dhabi: Emirates Lectures Series, 2006.
*NATO's Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI). Official document, 2004. Available at: www.nato.int
4. NATO and Regional Crisis: Iraq, Iran
*Philip Gordon and Jeremy Shapiro: Allies at war: America, Europe, and the crisis over Iraq. McGraw Hill, 2004
*Toby Dodge: NATO and the Middle East. In: Nato Review, Winter 2005.
5. NATO, Israel and the Middle East Peace Process
Speech by Nato SG Jaap de Hoop Scheffer in Tel Aviv, January 2009.
Speech by Nato SG Anders Fogh Rasmussen in Abu Dhabi, October 2009.
6. NATO and the Middle East: Building new Security Communities beyond Europe
*Karl W. Deutsch et al.: Political Communities and the North Atlantic Area. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1957.
*Emmanuel Adler and Michael Barnett (eds): Security Communities.Cambridge University Press, 1997 .
*F. Volpi: Regional community building and the transformation of international relations: the case of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership. In: Mediterranean Politics, Vol. 9/2, pp.145-164.
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Cohesion and Competitiveness of the Enlarged European Union
Prof. Michael Landesmann, The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies
3 - 8.1.2010
The process of East-West European Integration as it proceeded since 1989 created an integrated economic space with a much wider range of income levels, institutional and behavioural characteristics and policy requirements than was the case in Europe before 1989. This course covers particularly economic developments in the Enlarged European Union but will also refer to ‘Wider Europe’. Emphasis is on issues of ‘cohesion’ and ‘competitiveness’, the two areas which have dominated the policy debate within the European Union. We shall discuss differentiated growth processes at regional and national levels, patterns of international economic integration through trade, FDI and cross-border production networks, labour market developments and the economic analysis of the impact of migration flows; furthermore, the issues of further Enlargement and neighbourhood policy and the difficulties of policy development and policy coordination in the integrated European Union in the face of increased heterogeneity and in the wake of the global financial and economic crisis.
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Writing Art History in the European Context
Dr. Jas' Elsner, University of Oxford, Corpus Christi College
20.12.2009 - 2.1.2010
Lectures:
1. Riegl: “Alois Riegl and Classical Archaeology”: Style art history; Kunstwollen as co-ordinator = Weltanschauung etc
2. 1920s Responses to Kunstwollen 1 – Panofsky, Mannheim and Wind:Style and Meaning
3. 1920s Responses to Kunstwollen 2 – Sedlmayr and the Second Vienna School: Form and Struktur
4. The 1930s: The Warburgian move to ‘the symbol’: Neoplatonism; Symbolism
5. After the 1940s: Redeeming Art: Gothic, ‘Art’, ‘The Systems of the Arts’ “A Golden Age of Gothic”
6. Art and Illusion: A Viennese book in the Warburg Institute
7. The problems of Iconology: “Image and Site in the History of Art”
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Politics Within Alliances- Germany’s Multilateral Foreign Policy
Prof. Sven. Gareis, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Politikwissenschaften
31.10 - 14.11.2009
The intensive course offers a concise introduction to the basic orientations, guiding interests, and practical approaches of today’s German Foreign and Security Policy. The seminar starts by explaining theoretically the concept of multilateralism, highlighting its fundamental significance to Germany’s Foreign Policy in a historical-political analysis from the new start in 1949 over the process of reunification 1989/90 and the subsequent political shifts, and eventually pointing out Germany’s continuous dedication to action in concert with partners within multilateral alliances.
To this end he centrepiece of the course is on the examination of contemporary German politics within the framework of those three major international organisations res. alliances the country is indissolubly woven in: The European Union (EU) as Germany’s symbiotic partner, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) as its still most important security anchor and transatlantic link, and the United Nations (UN) as the major arena for Germany’s entrance on the global stage. Since all three organisations require from Germany military contributions to their collective efforts in the maintenance of regional and international peace, a broader space is given to this crucial topic that is still being intensively disputed in Germany.
The seminar will be concluded by a discussion on the future prospects Germany’s Foreign and Security Policy between traditional self-restriction in power politics and a normalized role of a medium-size power in European and World politics.

The Globalization of Labor
Dr. M. Fichter, Free University, Berlin, Germany
14 - 25.6.2009
One of the most obvious and far-reaching impacts of globalization is on the world of work. Millions of people are affected directly and indirectly at their workplace, in their training institutions or on the job market by dynamic restructuring processes across national borders often far removed from their immediate surroundings. This economic globalization has not, however, been flanked by global social measures; indeed, a lowering of social protection standards in the name of competitiveness, flexibility and the elimination of protective instruments of decommodification has been far more commonplace. As firms grow and reorient their business strategies toward global market demands, governments compete to provide them with optimal conditions for investments and profitability. Despite the increasing transnationalization of labor markets, setting standards for wages and working conditions is still dealt with within national boundaries, primarily as a workplace issue marked by employer discretionary or unilateral action, but also, where organized and institutionalized, dependent on a mixture of state regulations and negotiated contracts between national employer and employee representatives. Germany is no exception to this general conclusion. After decades of developing a strong institutional framework which curtailed unlimited conflict and facilitated cooperation and negotiated settlements between powerful collective actors, this "German model" or "German Way" is undergoing potentially far-reaching changes. As such, this course will enable students to understand these current developments and put them in an historical context. Beginning with the basics of the system of labor relations in Germany and its political framework, we will go on to investigate the collective actors as well as the underlying social, economic and political processes through which the German Model developed and is being challenged today. Special attention will be given to the impact of German unification, of Europeanization and globalization.
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Diaspora Literature
Prof. A. Kilcher, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen
1 - 11.6.2009
With the enlightenment, diaspora got a new, less religious, much more secular, i.e. political, cultural, and aesthetical meaning. Hereby, literature – and more general its mediality: the writing, the book – becomes the self-confident form of such new concepts of diaspora in between unversalism and particularism, tradition and modernity. An example of this is the notion of “Jewish Literature” as it was founded in the 19th century “Wissenschaft des Judentums” in Germany: literature according to this scientific paradigm is universal, multilingual, exterritorial. In this sense, “Diaspora Literature” means a systematically modern reconceptualisation of diaspora and literature at the same time. This will be discussed in this seminary on two related fields: cultural theory and literary practice. In the first part of the seminar, we will analyse the modern cultural theoretical discourse on “diaspora literature” from the “Wissenschaft des Judentums” up to postcolonial theory. In the second part of the seminar we will analyse the German-Jewish literary discourse discussing texts from Heinrich Heine up to Joseph Roth and the present literature of migration.
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Language and Migration
Prof. A. Betten, Paris Lodron University, Salzburg
3 - 14.5.2009
Migration as a worldwide phenomenon in present days gets increasing attention from different disciplines, including linguistics where “language and migration” and “contact linguistics” are well established fields of sociolinguistic research. Changes of culture and especially language -- or rather  the varying forms of bi- and multilingualism (including pidgins) -- resulting from migration have a great influence on the construction and definition of  the (new) identities in the new surroundings of individuals and entire ethnic groups. This process can be regarded either as personal loss or enrichment; the second generation often develops „mixed“ identities of their own, which are linguistically expressed by deliberate code-mixing ('hybrid' languages) in their peer-groups.
The seminar introduces positions and methods of actual sociolinguistic research on these topics, including empirical field work with examples from pilot-studies in Europe and in Israel. The students are expected to contribute with own recordings of narrative interviews ('language-biographies') which are typical for the multicultural roots of the Israeli society.
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Influence of Immigration on the Urban Open Space
Prof. P. Scheffer, University of Amsterdam
3 - 14.5.2009
Migrants from every corner of the world have changed in the post-war era the urban communities in Europe. Whatever their original intention, whatever ours, it has long since ceased to matter. The world has nestled into our neighbourhoods, in many ways a confusing experience. Shops, places of worship, schools and markets - everything and everybody is affected by the mass migration currently underway, the end of which is by no means in sight.
What we need is a more open-minded view of the frictions and clashes characteristic of any mass migration process. In the 1920s, the founder of the Chicago school of sociology, Robert Park described a “race relations cycle” that progressed from “isolation through competition, conflict and accommodation to assimilation”. What is clear is that every integration process entails conflicts, frictions and clashes. That was so in America, and it is repeating itself in Europe today. Our societies are passing through a phase of avoidance. Now, we have inescapably entered the throes of a period of conflict that must find a new accommodation. That conflict can be productive, if we succeed in rethinking the idea of an open society.  
To do justice to the existential significance of migration in our day, we will delve into migration history, focusing on America, the prime example of a country of immigration. We will find parallels between Europe and the United States at every turn. Behind the proud image of a ‘nation of immigrants’, we will find a great deal more ambivalence than is often supposed. In addition, we will take a comparative perspective, discussing the experiences of a number of European countries. We will explore the contrasting models and shared realities of cities like Lyon, Amsterdam, Bradford, and Stockholm. The emphasis on differences between political models such as French republicanism and British multiculturalism often obscures the fact that living conditions in Europe’s major cities are similar in many ways. To show how deeply migration affects and transforms society as a whole, we must cross the conventional borders between disciplines, drawing on many sources.
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Memory in Europe since 1945:
Transformations of Memory, Representations of Remembrance
Dr. H. Uhl, Austrian Academy of Science, Vienna
19 - 30.4.2009
The European landscape of memory of 1933-1945 has changed significantly within the last two decades. In the words of Tony Judt, we can speak of the decline of the post-war myths which had constituted much of collective memory in the European nations since 1945, and of a new culture of memory which focuses on the Holocaust. This transformation process can be described in a series of national variations, but also bears a set of transnational resemblances: In post-war Europe, all countries – except the German Federal Republic – declared themselves as victims of Nazi suppression and terror. The national cultures of memory were mostly dedicated to the victims of political (and national) persecution and to the heroes of resistance. The remembrance of the Jewish victims of the Nazi regime, on the other hand, was on the margins of public and official memory, conducted mostly by the Jewish communities. Today European memory of this historical period shows a different picture: Holocaust remembrance days, national monuments for the murdered Jewish citizens in European capitals – like Berlin and Vienna - and cities, new Memorial Museums and exhibitions in memorial sites are indicators for the relevance of the Holocaust in European memory. Furthermore, on a global scale the awareness for the Holocaust as the historical point of reference for the universal values of civilisation – human rights, civil rights – has grown. “The Holocaust (Shoah) fundamentally challenged the foundations of civilization“ is the introductory statement of the Declaration of the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust (1998). This was the founding act for the ITF Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research, an international board which has meanwhile been joined by 26 countries. In Europe, the transformation described above is the result of numerous conflictual discussions and struggles for memory. And Holocaust memory is still confronted with counter memories which claim an alternative victim status – especially in the post communist countries where the victims of communism in many cases are in the center of official and public memory. The course will concentrate on the process of transformation which has shaped the new European culture of remembrance since the 1980s. This change of paradigm affects the academic historical master narratives as well as public discourse, official forms and rituals of remembrance and material representations of memory in public space like monuments. Our starting point will be an introduction to theoretical and methodological approaches to the concepts of “collective” (Maurice Halbwachs) and cultural memory (a term coined by German historian Jan Assmann). Case studies which cover different forms of “cultural memory” (Jan Assmann) – from documentary films to monuments, museums and memorial sites - will provide insight into similarities and differences of European Holocaust memory: Are there differences between “perpetrators societies” - Germany and Austria – and occupied countries? Has the “negative memory” (Volkhard Knigge, director of Buchenwald memorial), dealing with the guilt of societies, become the role model for European memory? And can we observe a new cultural border between “western” and post communist countries; is this particular form of memory now reproducing the borders of the cold war? In this new culture of remembrance, art plays a crucial role. The challenge to represent the unrepresentable, to give Holocaust remembrance an aesthetic representation, has produced some of the most discussed works of art on an international level. Holocaust remembrance in the arts will also be a focal point of this course. These topics will be framed by a question which serves as a leitmotif of the analytical approach to a European memory which is focused on the Holocaust: what are the political, social, cultural and epistemological backgrounds for the transformations in European/global memory which can be observed since last decades of the 20th century?