ONLINE COURSE: Interreligious and Intercultural Tensions in Germany
Around the world, migration causes different religions and cultures to meet. Different narratives of past and present migration converge and diverge – as does the collective memory. Migration, today, made Islam visible in Germany, but how does this recent development relate to the Christian and Jewish frame of memory? Online discussions and workshops will help us to find some answers.
| Course period | July 19, 2021 - Aug. 13, 2021 Session II  | |
| Category | Cultural Studies & Religion | |
| Course levels | Bachelor | |
| Language | English | |
| Class size | max. 15 participants in class | |
| Credits and certificate | Participants will receive 5 ECTS credit points after successful completion of the online course. Additionally, six weeks after the end of the online course a Transcript of Records will be issued by Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. | |
| Application deadline | May 15, 2021, or when participant quota is reached | |
| Course fee | 650.00 Euro | (excl. program fee and discounts) Online Course Fee |
| Description | This course aims to examine convergences, divergences, and parallel tracks, interrogating tensions evident between Jewish narrative within the culture of memory in Germany (Erinnerungskultur) and endeavours to represent migration today. The focus will be on museum- and exhibit-oriented institutions, as well as working out an overview of a theoretical framework on the issues of the construction of "Self" and "Other". It can stand alone as a course, be combined with another subject course but particularly, it can be combined with the course offered in Summer Session 1: Jewish Narratives in Germany - Exploring Memory Past and Present. |
| Syllabus | Preliminary Syllabus (PDF) |
| Course structure |
The course content is equivalent to an on-site course offering 45 contact hours. The study time includes:
Track C Weekly schedule of virtual class room sessions:
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| Language skills | English: B2 |
| Motivation Letter | about one page in English |
| Student Profile | Undergraduate students of all subjects with an interest in interreligious and intercultural issues. This course is taught in English, including readings in English. For the understanding of the texts and the discussions in class a language level B2 (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) is required. Participating students need to be at least 18 years old. |
Victoria Bishop Kendzia teaches the course: Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue. Her teaching method, although anthropologically inflected, is interdisciplinary in nature and is, therefore, not limited to the social sciences. It appeals to students from a wide variety of academic backgrounds from history to art, through to geography, theology, and politics. The focus of her work is on the urban landscape, especially, but not only, museums and memorials in and around Berlin. In this context, locations are approached as field sites that can be read, explored, and critically analyzed as dynamic sites that project and reframe key aspects of history and culture, focusing on issues of interreligious significance. The urban laboratory that is Berlin is particularly well-suited to this endeavor, given the historical and cultural upheavals it has witnessed during the 20th century.
She has a background in Museum Studies, having completed her master’s degree in this field from the University of Toronto, Canada in 2001 and her Bachelor of Arts Honours at the same university in 1999. She has been publishing scholarly articles in her field since 2009 and teaching at the university level since 2008.
In 2013, she obtained her doctoral degree at the Institute for European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin under the supervision of Prof. Wolfgang Kaschuba and Prof. Sharon Macdonald, with an ethnographic dissertation on visitor experience in the context of political education at the Jewish Museum Berlin. Her book “Visitors to the House of Memory: Identity and Political Education at the Jewish Museum Berlin”, based on her empirical research, is now available:
http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/BishopKendziaVisitors
The book’s introduction:
http://www.berghahnbooks.com/downloads/intros/BishopKendziaVisitors_intro.pdf
| Coordinator | Pierre Steuer/ Carmen Opolski/ Sanja Müssig |
| Contact details | International Department
Unter den Linden 6 10999 Berlin Germany huwisu@hu-berlin.de |
This course can be combined with: