"Twenty Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall"

June 2: Berlin

"Obama as Promise of Hope? New Chances?
New Challenges in the Future Transatlantic Relations?"

Panel at the Freie Universitt Berlinwith
Dr. Ulrike Guerot, European Council on Foreign Relations,
Dr. Andreas Kraemer, Ecologic Institut, Dr. Simon Koschut,
John-F.-Kennedy Institut, Lena Thurau, European Studies, FU Berlin

June 2: Berlin

"60 Years of the Federal Republic of Germany and
60 Years of Transatlantic Relations: Its History and Presence"

Meeting with Dr. Hans-Ulrich Klose, Vice-Chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, Deutscher Bundestag,German Parliament

June 3: Berlin

"The Fall of the Berlin Wall and its Legacy 1989-2009"

Visit to the Gedenksttte Berliner Mauer, Bernauer Strasse, and Meeting with Dr. Axel Klausmeier, Director of the
Wall Memorial Foundation

June 4: Berlin

"The Culture(s) of Islam in Germany"
Perspectives of Immigrants on Unified Germany

Meeting with Burhan Kesici, Chair of the Islamische Fderation, Berlin

June 5: Berlin

"The History of the Stasi-Archiv
State Surveillance in Print"

Visit to the Bundesbehrde fr die Unterlagen des Staatssicherheitsdienstes der ehemaligen DDR(BStU)
with Birgit Salamon, Director of the Archive Department

June 8: Berlin

"Resistance and Opposition in the Former East
Personal Histories/Political Histories"

Kaffee und Kuchenwith Brbel Reissmann and Rainer Scheck, former dissidents in the GDR, in their private home

June 9: Leipzig

"The Peaceful Revolution and the Wende in Leipzig
The Perspective of the Opposition Movement

Lecture and Discussion with Dr. Magirius,
former Pastor and City President from 1990 to 1994

June 10: Leipzig

" Solarvalley Mitteldeutschland- Chances and Success of Renewable Energy in Eastern Germany"

Visit to Fraunhofer Center for Silicium-Photovoltaik, Halle; Fraunhofer Center for Central and Eastern Europe,
MOEZ, Leipzig

June 11: Frankfurt/Oder

"Shifted Centers and Transborder Relations with Eastern Europe: Focus Poland"

Lecture by Prof. Dr. Bennecke,
Chair of the Ost-Europa Institut
at the Europa-Universitt Viadrina

June 11: Slubice/ Poland

"History and Presence of Polish-German Relations"

Visit to the Colloquium Polonicum
and Lecture
by Dr. K. Wojciechowski

June 13: Berlin

"Making News About Germany and the World "

Visit to the Studio Headquarters
of the Deutsche Welle, Berlin