Editorial
This newsletter is appearing between the dates of two 30-year anniversaries: November 9, 2019 and October 3, 2020. Both of these are not only key dates in German history but refer to a European and global revolution which was momentous for the Wissenschaftskolleg. West Berlin ceased to be an island and Berlin now became the capital of a unified Germany, and the Wissenschaftskolleg faced the challenge of finding a new role in a united Europe.
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Constitution as Nonviolent Revolution
A conversation with Ulrich K. Preuß, who was a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in 1989/1990 and advisor to the constitutional committee of the “Round Table”
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Imre Kertész und die europäische Literatur der Gegenwart
Panel discussion with László Földényi, Ina Hartwig, Lothar Müller, Wolf Lepenies, Werner Heegewaldt, Katalin Madácsi-Laube (in german)
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My favourite
A Profound Sense of Loss
Karolina Wigura and Jarosław Kuisz on political emotions in Poland since 1989
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The Wissenschaftskolleg and the East: The New Europe College in Bucharest
Katharina Biegger, former head of the Wissenschaftskolleg’s admission department, takes a look back after thirty years
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Save the date - Meeting of the Fellows’ Club - Biodiversity: Conceptual Challenges in an Era of Rapid Change, June 11 and 12, 2020
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