Week 7

Tuesday, 10 May

Brunch at Evita and Bjoern’s Farmchen

8 p.m. at CIEE: Daniel Kahn

Wednesday, 11 May

19:30 Required*: Keynote talk at the Untying the Mother Tongue Conference, ICI Berlin, Daniel Boyarin: Philological Investigations: The Concept of Cultural Translation in American Religious Studies. ICI Kulturlabor Berlin / Institute for Cultural Inquiry.  https://www.ici-berlin.org/event/704/ Christinenstr. 18/19 or Schönhauser Allee 176. The ICI is hard to find and hard to find your way around; it is behind the Pfefferbraeu, where we ate our first supper together in Berlin, at the Senefelderplatz stop on the U2.  Plan to arrive early both to make sure you get a seat and that you find your way in.  Probably it is on the third or fourth floor; no signage, so just keep looking!

Remember too to read both short selections from the two keynote speakers, Boyarin and Cixous, and to read one of them in its entirety (googledrive)

Thursday, 12 May

14:15 The Last Supper. Restaurant Pasternak.  Knaackstraße 22/24, 10405 Berlin, Germany.  http://restaurant-pasternak.de/en/restaurant_pasternak.html   The restaurant is also accessible from the Senefelderplatz U2 station, and is a short walk from the ICI.  (It is in the neighborhood on the other side of Schönhauser Allee, not in the direction of ICI.)

18:00 Required*: Keynote talk at the Untying the Mother Tongue Conference, ICI Berlin, Helene Cixous: I say Allemagne

*see full conference schedule below; there are likely other sessions that will interest you!

Friday, 13 May

Last day with host families.  Make sure Kathleen gets an updated Wanderbondage syllabus so she knows what your world looks like for the next weeks!

*full conference schedule

Wednesday,  11 May 2016
9:00        
Morning coffee
9:30-9:45   
Introduction

Panel I: Rethinking the Mother Tongue
9:45   
Michael Eng
Philosophy’s Mother Envy. Has There Yet Been a Deconstruction of the “Mother Tongue”?

10:15   
Deborah Achtenberg
But You Don’t Get Used to Anything: Derrida on the Preciousness of the Singular

10:45   
Jakob Norberg
The Mother Tongue at School: Jacob Grimm

11:15-11:45   
Coffee break

11:45   
Micha Brumlik
Does an (Ethnic) People Need a Mother Language? Considerations About Fichte and Weisgerber

12:15       
Uli Linke
Speaking in Tongues. Language and Belonging in Europe

12:45       
Zsuzsa Baross
Mother Tongue at the Limit

13:15-14:30   
Lunch break

Panel II: In Translation

14:30   
Eran Shuali
Holy Tongue or Mother Tongue: The Choice of Language in Translations of the New Testament

15:00   
Anastasia Telaak
Mother Tongue, Father’s Moses and “the Errant Verbal Matter.” Translations of the Other’s Language(s) in Alejandra Pizarnik’s Writing of Trauma and Exile

Panel III: Hebrew. Mother of All Languages

15:30   
Michael T. Miller
The Original Language and the Seventy Languages in Jewish Tradition

16:00   
Reuven Kiperwasser
Mother Tongue/Mother Land in Rabbinic Rhetoric

16:30   
Cedric Cohen-Skalli
The Multilingualism of Isaac Abravanel:The Space of Hebrew within Christian Iberian Society

17:00-17:30   
Coffee break

17:30   
Zohar Weiman-Kelman
Dream of a Common Mame-Loshn. Yiddish Beyond the Mother Tongue

18:00   
Elad Lapidot
The Infantile Native Speaker. Her Construction and Prohibition in the Event of the XX Century Hebrew

18:30   
Federico Dal Bo
“My Mother Tongue is a Foreign Language:” On Edmond Jabès’ Writing in Exile

19:00-19:30   
Coffee break

19:30   
Keynote by Daniel Boyarin
Philological Investigations: The Concept of Cultural Translation in American Religious Studies

Thursday,12 May 2016

9:00        
Morning coffee

Panel IV: Nostalgia, Trauma, and the Unconscious

9:30   
Juliane Prade-Weiss
Scarspeak. For a Traumatic Notion of the Mother Tongue

10:00   
Rivka Warshawsky
Afflicted by Lalangue: or, Mutism in the First Hebrew-Speaking Infant

10:30   
Mathias Verger
Nostalgia and the Demythologisation of the Mother Tongue

11:00-11:30   
Coffee break

11:30   
Monica Monolachi
Avatars of Mother Tongue, with Samples of Romanian Poetry

12:00       
Anne Isabelle Francois
Estranging the Mother Tongue

12:30-14:00    Lunch break

Panel V: Mother Tongue and Literature

14:00   
Stefano Evangelista
Oscar Wilde’s Salomé: The Daughter of Too Many Fathers

14:30   
Jeffrey Champlin
“I know you can cant”.Slips of the Mother Tongue in F. Moten’s B Jenkins

15:00-15:30   
Coffee break

15:30   
Ramsey McGlazer
The Manse of Mothers: Joyce, Reproduction, and the Past as Pensum

16:00   
Nimrod Reitman
On the Stuttering of Language:Ingeborg Bachmann’s Inconsolable Silence

16:30   
Antonio Castore
“Die erfundene Wahrnehmung” or the Pantomime of Words:On Herta Müller’s Theoretical Writings

17:00-17:30   
Closing Remarks

17:30-18:00   
Coffee break

18:00       
Keynote by Hélène Cixous
I say Allemagne

Prague Weekend, between Wk 6 and 7, May 7-9, 2016

Quick Reminders:
– Don’t forget to tell your host families that you will be away.
– Bring your passport. The hotel will collect all of them during check in and hold them for the duration of the stay, which is standard procedure in the Czech Republic. You will also then need it after check out in order to enter the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty building.

Saturday, 07 May
10:00 Meet at the Main Train Station (Hauptbahnhof)
Note: The station is huge. In order to make things simpler, let’s meet on the Washingtonplatz side of the station. This is the side without trams and buses. It is a large plaza next to the Spree River with a view of the Reichstag building.
11:00 Train departs Berlin
Train: EC 379, Wagon-Nr 255, Reserved seats: 13-16, 21-26, 31-36
Scheduled to depart from Track 1
15:28 Arrive in Prague 16:00 Check in at Hotel
Hotel Brixen
Sokolská 1796/44, 120 00 Praha 2 Tel.: +420 222 765 703
Nearest Metro Stop: I.P. Pavolva

16:15 Meet in hotel lobby to depart for city tour
Guide: Marie Homerova 18:30 Tour concludes

19:30 Group Dinner
Maitrea
Týnská ulička 1064/6, Praha 1 – Old Town http://www.restaurace-maitrea.cz/en_home.htm Tel. +420 221 711 631
Reservation under the name: CIEE Students

Sunday, 08 May
Breakfast at the hotel (buffet from 06:30 until 11:00)
Early lunch on your own
11:45 Meet in hotel lobby
12:00 Depart for Tour of Jewish Quarter
Guide: Marie Homerova
14:00 Tour concludes at Kafka Museum
14:15 Visit Kafka Museum and discussion with Seth Rogoff (circa) 17:00 Return to hotel
Dinner on your own

Monday, 09 May
Breakfast at the hotel (buffet from 06:30 until 11:00)
10:30 Check Out
During check out, be sure to store your luggage in the luggage room.
10:45 Meet in hotel lobby to depart for Radio Free Europe
*Don’t forget to bring your passport or you will be denied entry!
11:30 Visit Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty with Jana Klenhova

13:30 Group Lunch
Vinohradsky pivovar
Korunní 2506/106, 101 00 Praha 10
http://www.vinohradskypivovar.cz/
Tel. +420 607 040 120

15:00 Return to hotel to pick up luggage
16:27 Train departs Prague
Train: EC 170, Wagon-Nr 257, Reserved seats: 11-16, 21-26, 33-36
20:58 Arrive at Berlin Hauptbahnhof
 

Week 6 May 1-7, 2016

Monday, May 2  

Free

Tuesday, May 3

9:00         Drop your Notizbuch off at the front desk and let them know it is for me.

9:00-13:00           Language Courses Continue

14:00-16:00        Dienstags mit wem? pop-up salons

Evening: optional, German film, hosted by Martin; look at CIEE for the notification of when and where. (8 p.m.?)

Wednesday, May 4

9:00-13:00           Language Courses Continue TODAY ON WEDNESDAY!

(NOTE: Language classes M, W, F this week)

Thursday, May 5 Christi Himmelfahrt/Ascension Day

No language class as today is a German National Holiday; group outing to the Deutsche Kinemathek Museum für Film und Fernsehen, which claims in spite of the holiday to be open! Note: this will displace the PsychicCity assignment, which you can choose to do on the weekend prior, the free Monday of this week, or postpone until after Prague.

12:00-4:00        Meet at the Museum for Film and TV,  Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen
Potsdamer Straße 2.   10785 Berlin. 

Friday, May 6

9:00-13:00           Language Courses Continue

13:00                       Break for lunch

14:00-17:00        Professor Eamon will meet with all students in Tempelhof classroom

Benjamin, Reflections, “A Berlin Chronicle,” 36-44.
Benjamin, Illuminations, “Franz Kafka, On the Tenth Anniversary of his Death,” pp.111-126.
Kafka: (note revisions from paper syllabus, now just ca. 20 pages)  “A Country Doctor,” the shorter stories pp 379-384, and reread “The Silence of the Sirens.” Pick one of these for which to explode a passage, this time elaborately and with drawings.

Saturday, May 7-Monday, May 9.   See above for Prague details.

 

Week 5 April 22-29, 2016

Monday, April 25  

Optional, Kathleen and Lynarra will meet anyone who wants to get together and talk about their Wanderbondage plans and project at the Prater Biergarten at 4 p.m. If the weather is bad, we’ll send an e-mail out specifying a location near there where we can get together in-of-doors.

Tuesday, April 26

9:00-13:00           Language Courses Continue

14:00-16:00        Dienstags mit wem? pop-up salons

Evening: optional, German film, hosted by Martin; look at CIEE for the notification of when and where. (8 p.m.?)

Wednesday, April 27

14:30                       Gather in front of the Tourist Information Center on the side of Brandenburg Gate closest to the US Embassy.  Address: Pariser Platz.   Nearest Public Transit Stop: S + U Brandenburger Tor. **Can’t find the group? Call or text Rachel: 0157 5211 3533 (from a German phone)

15:00-17:30        Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe.  Guided overview of the exhibition and a moderated discussion

18:00-19:00        Topography of Terror.  Guided overview of the permanent exhibition in the documentation center

Thursday, April 28

9:00-13:00           Language Courses Continue

19:30                       Optional: Recurrences Symposium, ICI Berlin.  Christinenstraße 18-19, 10119 Berlin .     Keynote: James T. Siegel. Gift, Fetish, Magic

Friday, April 29

9:00-13:00           Language Courses Continue

13:00                       Break for lunch

14:00-17:00        Professor Eamon will meet with all students in Tempelhof classroom

Benjamin, Reflections, “A Berlin Chronicle,” 29-36.


Yildiz, Yasemin.  Beyond the Mother Tongue, portions of each chapter:


*“Surviving the Mother Tongue: Literal Translation and Trauma in Emine Sevgi Özdamar,” 143-147

* “Inventing a Motherless Tongue: Mixed Language and Masculinity in Feridun Zaimoglu,” 169-182

 

Week 4 (Known as Week III on the CIEE itinerary), April 18-25

Monday, April 18

12:10 Meet in front of the Jewish Museum Berlin – Jüdisches Museum Berlin, Lindenstraße 9-14, 10969 Berlin.  Our guide will meet us there once we’re gathered and it will take 20-30 minutes to pass through security.  The museum spans a very long stretch of history, which you can explore after we hear about “The Emergence of the Modern Age: Jews in the Kaiserreich and the Weimar Republic.” 

Tuesday, April 19

9:00-13:00 Language Courses Continue: Classroom Change (for today only).  Beginning Level meets in Tempelhof classroom. Intermediate/Advanced Levels meets in the Conference Room of Haus B”(Please gather in the lobby and Jan will walk with the entire group to the conference room).

14:00-15:30 Dienstags mit Wem pop-up salons on Auserwählten texts.  Likely that we’ll regroup for a few minutes at 3:30 this week to meet a guest.  Kathleen will be with the Adorno/Autonomy group, Lynarra with the Yildiz/Adorno group. 

Wednesday, April 20

16:00 Meet in front of the Berlin Wall Memorial Documentation Center. Bernauer Straße 11

The Documentation Center is directly across from Nordbahnhof S-Bahn station, served by the S1, S2, and S25 S-Bahn lines.

Additional directions here: http://www.berliner-mauer-gedenkstaette.de/en/directions-164.html

**Can’t find the group? Call or text Rachel: 0157 5211 3533 (from a German phone)

18:00 Tour of the Berlin Wall Memorial concludes; group proceeds to the Prater Biergarten. 

Thursday, April 21

9:00-13:00 Language Courses Continue

Afternoon PsychicCity, with post by 22:00.  PsychicCity MENU by the week Berlin 2016

Friday, April 22

9:00-13:00 Language Courses Continue
13:00 Break for lunch
14:00-17:00 Professor Eamon will meet with all students in Tempelhof classroom for seminar.  Passagenwerk Readings:

Benjamin, Reflections, “A Berlin Chronicle,” 20-29.

*Benjamin, Illuminations, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” 217-224*

Didi-Huberman, Images in Spite of All, 3-17

*Adorno, “The Concept of Enlightenment,” 155-161 (top of page)

Reminder:  Anytime that you leave Berlin, please inform the site staff about your travel plans using the CIEE Berlin Travel Notification Form:

http://tinyurl.com/CIEE-Berlin-Travel

Week 3 (Known as Week II on the CIEE itinerary), April 10-17

Monday, April 11

12:10 Meet at the Boros Bunker, for a group tour.  Reinhardtstraße 20, 10117 Berlin.  The Boros Collection is a private collection of contemporary art. It contains groups of works by international artists dating from 1990 to the present. Different facets of the collection have been on public display since 2008 in a converted bunker, situated in Berlin-Mitte, with 3000 sqm of exhibition space spread over 80 rooms. 

 

End of Week 1, April 1, through Week 2

Friday, April 1
Arrival in Berlin. 

1:00 PM Orientation at CIEE Students arrive on their own to CIEE by 1:00 PM on Friday, April 1st. Orientation begins in the early afternoon. Light lunch, program overview, local logistics, health and safety. Welcome packet: transit pass, emergency contact card, map.

5:00 PM Travel with host family to home stay

Saturday, April 2
3:15     Meet in front of the Tourist Information Center on the side of the Brandenburg Gate closest to the US Embassy. (address: Pariser Platz, nearest transit stop: S + U Brandenburger Tor)

3:30    Berlin Walking Tour, 6:00 PM Welcome Dinner at restaurant Pfefferbräu (address: Schönhauser Allee 176)

Week 2, Apr 3 – 9

Sunday and Monday, April 3 and 4: Free days. Consult program handbook at syllabus (“Kulturbingo”) for suggested activities and places to explore around the city.

 

Tuesday, April 5:

9:00     Language Courses Begin. Beginning in Mitte classroom, Int/Adv in Tempelhof. Language classes will meet Tuesday, Thursdays, and Fridays unless otherwise specified.

2:00     Special one hour session: Syllabus meeting. Tempelhof classroom.

 

Wednesday, April 6: City Office of Development, Spreefeld and Märchenpark.

9:45        Meet on the platform at Jannowitzbrücke S-Bahn Station              Served by the S7, S5, S75 lines

10:00     Site Visit: City Office of Development, Spreefeld and Märchenpark. View Berlin from an urban planning perspective and tour the grounds of two sites representing Berlin’s competing priorities and community involvement in development initiatives. The Spreefeld Cooperative is located in the Urban Renewal District “Nördliche Luisenstadt”, created by the local government specially to improve access to the Spree River and to develop a public path along the shore. This public planning process began officially in 2011 and is expected to continue for another decade.

Thursday and Friday, reminder: Language classes, 9-1:00.

2-5:00 Friday Seminar at CIEE: Passagenwerk Readings. *means candidate for next Tuesday’s Ausgewählte texts, which you’ll find in the googledrive folder to which Kathleen will have provided a link.

Huyssen, Twilight Memories, “Escape from Amnesia: The Museum as Mass Medium” (pdf distributed by e-mail before quarter-begin)

Benjamin, Reflections, “A Berlin Chronicle,” 3-12 (we will read the whole of this over these five weeks)

*Bernstein, Jay. Fate of Art, “Memorial Aesthetics: Kant’s Critique of Judgement,” 17-18, 53-55, 62-65

*Adorno, “Culture Industry Reconsidered,” 230-233 (top of page)

*Buck-Morss, The Origins of Negative Dialectics, ‘Intellectual Beginnings,” 1-5

*Buck-Morss, from New German Critique (journal) “The Flâneur, the Sandwichman and the Whore: The Politics of Loitering,” 99-middle of 102