Board of Trustees - Centre for British Studies · 2009. 5. 12. · GBZ - ANNUAL REPORT 2003 - -3 The Centre in 2003 2003 was a year of consolidation for the Centre. Gerhard Dannemann

Board of Trustees

Chairman

Sir Christopher Mallaby GCMG, GCVO

Ambassador to Germany 1988-1992

Kate Board

Director

British Council Germany

Ulrich Hoppe

Director General

German-British Chamber of Industry and Commerce

Graham Jefcoate MA, FRSA, MCLIP

Peter Knoedel

Vorstand

Deutsche BP AG

Professor William E. Paterson OBE, FRSA, FRSE

The University of Birmingham

Director of the Institute for German Studies

The Rt. Hon. The Lord Giles Radice

House of Lords

Christian Schmidt MdB

Chairman British- German Parliamentarian Group

Professor Dr. Gerd Stratmann

Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Englisches Seminar

Professor The Lord Watson of Richmond CBE

Chairman

Burson-Marsteller Europe

Stiftung Mercator GmbH

Anglo-German Foundation

The British Council

Dresdner Bank AG

Readymix AG

Marga und Kurt-Möllgard Stiftung im

Stifterverband der deutschen Wissenschaften

for their generous support in 2003.

The Centre would like to thank


Broken EnglishOptik Streier

The Centre and the students would like to thank

for their generous support of the student project “Hidden Britain” in June 2003.

GBZ - ANNUAL REPORT 2003

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Contents

The Centre for British Studies 2

The Centre in 2003 3

Staff 4

Facilities and Equipment 7

Master in British Studies

� Course Description 7

� M.B.S. Students 9

� Teaching 11

� Internships 16

� Master Theses 2003 19

Research

� General Projects 20

� PhD Projects 21

Multimedia Project 22

Publications

� Books 23

� Further Publications 23

Events

� Highlights 24

� The Year’s Activities 27

� Media Contributions 30

� Public Lectures 30

Guests at the Centre 33

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The Centre for British Studies

The Centre for British Studies at theHumboldt University Berlin was set up in1995 as a teaching and research institutewith a broad interdisciplinary agenda. It isthe first of its kind in a German-speakingcountry.

The goals of the Centre’s work are:1. To offer a Master in British Studies as apostgraduate degree. This 18-months Mastercourse gives students the opportunity to addcompetence in British Studies to qualificationsacquired in their first degree course. It preparesthem for executive positions in firms and publicinstitutions with strong links with the UnitedKingdom or other English-speaking countries.The course includes a three-months internshipin a company or a public institution in Britain.The Centre also involves ‘practitioners’ fromGerman and British companies, the media andthe arts in its Master programme, so that itsstudents are not only offered classes byuniversity teachers, but are also in constantcontact with people running businesses,banks, theatres, museums and other publicservice institutions.

2. To carry out comprehensive researchprogrammes focusing on Britain’s specialposition as a pioneer within the modernindustrialised world. For centuries, Britain hashad a distinctive and often formative influenceon Europe and the world in areas as diverseas politics, science, history, economics, law,language, literature and the media, and stillcontinues to make a decisive contribution toglobal modernisation.

3. To provide – in the heart of Berlin and closeto Germany’s political centre – a forum forlectures, seminars and conferences on Anglo-German topics of general interest.

Academic Staff:

The Centre for British Studies has a corestaff of three professors and five juniorlecturers and researchers:

� Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schlaeger, Director, Chairfor British Literature and Culture, appointedin 1995� Prof. Dr. Gerhard Dannemann, Chair forBritish Legal, Economic and SocialStructures, appointed in 2003� Prof. Dr. Christiane Eisenberg, Chair forBritish History since the Restoration,appointed in 1998� Christof Biggeleben M.A., History andEconomics� Rita Gerlach, Dipl.-Kulturwirtin, Literatureand Cultural Studies� Christian Handke M.A., Political Scienceand Economics� Marc Stauch M.A. (Oxon.), Law andPolitics� Dr. Gesa Stedman, Literature and CulturalStudies.

Clerical Staff:

� Martina Rosin, Secretary� Dr. Claudia Beindorf, Secretary� Evelyn Thalheim, Librarian� Sylvena Zöllner, Administrative Officer.

The Centre also has a supporting staff ofpart-time student auxiliaries; in 2003 thesewere:� Miriam Ducke, Cultural Studies, English,Philosophy� Katarzyna Gebarowska, English� Anja Nötzoldt, Law� Oliver Pal, Media Technology� Sebastian Pilz, History� Folker Schmerbach, Law� Natascha Schuler, Graphic Design und Me-dia Studies� Juliane Trautmann, English and Sports.


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The Centre in 2003

2003 was a year of consolidation for the Centre. Gerhard Dannemann and his team settled in veryquickly and gave a new impetus to our activities. The number of applicants for our degree course roseagain by 20 per cent and thanks to the generosity of the Mercator Foundation, the Möllgaard Foundationin the Stifterverband and the German Academic Exchange Service we were again able to support themajority of our places in the MBS course with a substantial grant. Individual research activities were asintense as ever and we managed to bring forward our interdisciplinary research project on “Commerceand Culture” in such a way that we were encouraged by the VW-Foundation to apply for a researchgrant.The students of our fourth class organized the Centre’s presentation at the “Lange Nacht derWissenschaften” and they were rightly rewarded for their efforts by an enthusiastic feed back. Frequentlywe receive requests for information and help from organisations as diverse as the Bundestag and thetrade unions and we are only too happy to oblige.To demonstrate how British Berlin can be a film company producing Jules Verne’s “Around the World in80 Days” temporarily transformed our Gendarmenmarkt into another Trafalgar Square in June 2003.(see front cover).Throughout the year we again attracted sizeable and lively audiences for our Monday Lecture Series.The British Embassy, the British Council and the Anglo-German-Foundation were as helpful as ever. Wewere also able to strengthen considerably our position in the University.At the end of the year we reaped the harvest of many years of hard work. In the latest round ofdramatic cuts forced upon the Berlin universities the Centre was one of the very few institutes thatwere exempted. We take this as additional encouragement and are optimistic about our prospects inspite of the general gloom and doom around us.Finally, in early December our degree course was successfully accredited by a team of outside evaluators.We expect to receive the certificate some time early in 2004.We have added two distinguished personalities to our advisory board: Peter Knödel, member of theboard of directors and country representative in Deutsche BP and, as an ex- officio member, the Directorof the British Council in Germany, Kathryn Board OBE.There will be another change in the office in January as Claudia Beindorf will replace Catherine Smithwho is on maternity leave. Similarly, Martina Rosin has taken over the other office to replace CorinnaRadke who is also on maternity leave.There will be an international conference on cultural transformations in February and one on “Britainas a Model of Modern Society? German Views” in July. So:“To work – to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.”

December 2003 Jürgen Schlaeger

The staff of the Centre (from left): J. Schlaeger, G. Dannemann, G. Stedman, C.Handke, S. Zöllner, M. Rosin, M. Stauch, C. Eisenberg, C. Biggeleben, R. Gerlach


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Staff

Dr. Claudia Beindorf

Foreign language secretary to Prof. Schlaeger.Studied Scandinavian languages, psychologyand theatre and film studies in Berlin. She didher doctorate on Terror des Idyls. Die kultu-relle Konstruktion von Gemeinschaften inHeimatfilm und Landbygdsfilm. She isresponsible for managing the office of Prof.Schlaeger and his team, and providessecretarial and clerical support for theirteaching and research activities. Herresponsibilities also include the organisationof Prof. Schlaeger ’s appointments andcommitments, together with looking afterguests, organising conferences, seminars,meetings, appointments, events and lectures.She keeps all office systems and proceduresrunning smoothly, answers general enquiries,maintains office records and is responsible forthe day-to-day management of the Centre’saffairs.

Christof Biggeleben M.A.

Economic and Social History. Lecturer andresearch assistant of Professor Eisenberg. Hestudied history and economics at theUniversity of Essex and at the Freie UniversitätBerlin, where he also worked as a studentassistant at the Centre for ComparativeHistory of Europe. Christof, who is currentlyworking for a PhD on “Entrepreneurs andEntrepreneurial Behaviour in Berlin andLondon, 1890-1961”, teaches Britisheconomic history and the history of Anglo-German relations on the M.B.S programme.He is also involved in the workshops ontranscultural management and presentationtechniques. Moreover he is responsible for theeconomics section in the M.B.S. programmeas well as for the Centre’ s PR.

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Dannemann M.A.

(Oxon.)

Professor of British Legal, Economic and SocialStructures. Studied law at Freiburg i.Br. andBonn. Taught German and English law atFreiburg (Assistant Lecturer 1988-91), at theBritish Institute of International and

Comparative Law (Fellow in German Law) 1991-94, at University College London (VisitingLecturer, then Lecturer) 1992-95, and at theUniversity of Oxford 1995-2002 (UniversityLecturer, then Reader in Comparative Law),where he was also a Fellow of WorcesterCollege from 1995-2002. Dr. jur. Freiburg i.Br.1994, Habilitation Freiburg i.Br. 2002. Joinedthe Centre for British Studies in 2003. Haspublished widely, in particular on English andGerman legal systems, contract, tort,restitution, and private international law.Founder and general editor of the OxfordUniversity Comparative Law Forum and theGerman Law Archive, British Member of theAcquis Group (European Research Group onExisting EC Private Law), and Fellow of theInstitute of European and Comparative Law,University of Oxford.

Prof. Dr. Christiane Eisenberg

Professor of British History since theRestoration. Born 1956. Studied history andsocial sciences at Bielefeld, where she obtaineda PhD in 1986. After working as a researchassociate at the Centre for InterdisciplinaryResearch (University of Bielefeld) in 1986-87and holding a fellowship at the Institute forAdvanced Study in Princeton, N.J. in 1987-1988, she became an assistant professor at theUniversity of Hamburg, where she completedher Habilitation in 1996. After deputising forthe Social History Chair at the University ofBielefeld and working in a research unit on“Gesellschaftsvergleich” at the historydepartment of the Humboldt University, shejoined the Centre for British Studies in October1998. Her main publications are: Deutsche undenglische Gewerkschaften. Entstehung undEntwicklung bis 1878 im Vergleich (1986),Fußball, soccer, calcio. Der Weg einesenglischen Sports um die Welt (ed., 1997),“English sports” und deutsche Bürger. EineGesellschaftsgeschichte 1800-1939 (1999),Parliamentary Cultures. British and GermanPerspectives (ed., 2001).

Rita Gerlach, Diplom-Kulturwirtin

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Business and Cultural Studies at the Universityof Passau and previously worked in Moscow,London and Paris before joining the Centre inOctober 2001. Currently doing research for herdoctoral thesis as part of the Centre’s researchproject “Commerce and Culture”. Workingtitle: “Cultural Economics/ Cultural Studies:British and German Theatre Funding”.Teaching includes “The Nation as Myth” (which is a pioneer in the Centre’s Multimediaproject) and the introduction to “CulturalStudies”. (Research) interests are: the arts,cultural policy and economics, interculturalcommunication, national identities. Amongother tasks at the Centre, she is responsible(with Marc Stauch) for the M.B.S. PlacementScheme.

Christian W. Handke M.A.

Political Science and Economics Lecturer andresearch assistant atthe Centre since March2003. Christian holds aB.A. (Honours) inEuropean Studies fromthe University of NorthLondon, UK, and anM.A. in Science, Tech-nology and Societyfrom Linköping Uni-

versity, Sweden. He has also enjoyed periodsof study at Universidad de Salamanca, Spain,and Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile.His previous work experience includes culturalmanagement at EXPO 2000 GmbH, the worldexhibition in Hanover. Christian is writing hisdoctoral thesis on innovators in thephonogram industry, which forms part of theCentre’s research project on “Culture andCommerce”. On the M.B.S. prorgamme,Christian teaches the UK Financial System,presents a special tutorial on Basic Skills –Writing a Research Paper and guides theCurrent Affairs seminars. He is also preparinga course on cultural economics. Christian isfurther responsible for the Centre’s websiteand participates in its PR activities. Hisacademic interests include cultural economics,European integration, innovation studies,theories of the information society, and thephonogram industry.

Corinna Radke

Foreign language secretary to Prof. Eisenbergand Prof. Dannemann. Corinna is currently onmaternity leave. She gave birth to her seconddaughter Rosalie on 14th June 2003. She iscurrently being replaced by Martina Rosin.

Martina Rosin

Foreign language secretary to Prof. Eisenbergand Prof. Dannemann. Studied English andFrench at Leipzig University. Providesorganisational and clerical support in relationto the teaching and research activities of theCentre. She is responsible for the co-ordination of the Centre’s guest lectures andorganises the teaching schedules for theM.B.S. programme.

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schlaeger M.A. (Oxon.)

Professor of Literature and Culture, andDirector of the Centre for British Studies. Born1940. Studied history, philosophy, Russianand English at Würzburg and Cologne, andEnglish at Oxford. Has taught English andcomparative literature at the University ofConstance (Habilitation in 1975) and theUniversity of California, Irvine. Has publishedwidely on literary theory, literary biography,romanticism, and literary anthropology. Co-editor of the “Yearbook of Research in Englishand American Literature” (REAL) and of the“Journal for the Study of British Cultures”.Board member of ESSE (until 2000), andchairman of the Shakespeare-Preis-Kuratoriumof the Alfred Toepfer Stiftung. He chairs theexamination statutes board of the Universityand is a member of its multi-media andfundraising task forces. He is also a memberof the steering committee of the BritishChamber of Commerce in the Berlin-Brandenburg region.

Catherine Smith

Foreign language secretary to Prof. Schlaeger.Catherine is currently on maternity leave. Shegave birth to her daughter Cecilie Erin on 1st

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Marc Stauch, M.A. (Oxon.)

Law and Politics Lecturer and researchassistant at the Centresince February 2003.Marc graduated fromOxford in Politics,Philosophy and Eco-nomics in 1989, andthen studied law,qualifying as a Solicitorof the Supreme Courtof England and Wales

in 1993. He lectured law in England for anumber of years at The Nottingham TrentUniversity and the University of Leicester. Hisspecialist interest is in Medical law: he is theco-author of a popular English studenttextbook on the subject and is writing hisdoctoral thesis on Medical Negligence law inEngland and Germany. On the M.B.S.programme, Marc teaches Law of Torts, MediaLaw, and Introduction to Political System. Heis also responsible (together with Rita Gerlach)for the organisation of the student work-placement programme, and for editing thealumni newsletter.

Dr. Gesa Stedman

Lecturer and Research Assistant (CulturalStudies; Literature; Film). Studied English,French and Film Studies at the Freie UniversitätBerlin and the University of Warwick. Wroteher doctoral thesis on the Victorian discoursesof emotions (Ashgate 2002). Current researchfocuses on early modern cultural mediatorsand Anglo-French relations in the 17th century.Among other things, Gesa Stedman isresponsible for organising the Centre’s lectureseries. As a board member of the Associationfor the Study of British Cultures Gesa Stedmanis responsible for the annual update of theGerman Portal to British Studies (http://www.britishstudies.de). Gesa Stedman also sitson the editorial committee of the Journal forthe Study of British Cultures and is a memberof the Deutsche Anglistenverband. Furtherinterests include cultural theory, feministliterary history and British film.

Evelyn Thalheim

Graduated from the Fachschule fürwissenschaftliches Bibliotheks- undInformationswesen Berlin. Has worked as aqualified librarian in various scientificinstitutions, among them the university libraryof the Humboldt University, Akademie derWissenschaften der DDR and AG StrukturelleGrammatik at the Max Planck Institute. Shejoined the Centre for British Studies in 1996and has since then been busy establishing alibrary that serves the Centre’s special culturalstudies interests. A milestone in her work forthe Centre’s library was the administration ofa donation of 10,000 books by the BritishCouncil, including the registration of thelibrary’s new collection in the OPAC alsoprovided by the British Council.

Sylvena Zöllner

Administration clerk at the Centre. She isresponsible for administering the Centre’sfinances, for the supply of office material,technical equipment and everything else thatis needed. She helps with the organisation ofconferences by taking care of cateringarrangements and by providing the necessarytechnical equipment. Furthermore, she is incharge of the filing of all documents andrecords in respect of the M.B.S. programme.


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Facilities and Equipment

The Library

The main library of the Centre for British Stud-ies is situated in the August-Boeckh-Haus atDorotheenstraße 65. It provides students andresearchers with the latest publications cov-ering a wide range of topics such as Britishlaw, cultural studies and political sciences.The library is technically and logistically linkedto the main library of the Humboldt-Universitywith its computerised administration system.We are grateful to The British Council whichhas again given us a significant donation of650 books in 2003.

Reference Library

Additionally, the Centre’s reading room, at itsJägerstraße location contains a referencecollection of relevant books and dictionaries,an extensive microfiche collection, Britishnewspapers and magazines, CD-ROMs andother material.

Common Room

On the ground floor of the Jägerstraßebuliding the Centre for British Studies has acommon room with sofas and armchairs forthe students where they can enjoy a cup oftea during the breaks between the lectures,meet after class for group work and discus-sions or simply relax and have a chat.

PC Pools

There are several computer rooms (includingthe reading room) with personal computers,internet access and printers in the Jägerstaßebuilding.They allow our students to work and research– and to keep in touch with friends and rela-tives all over the world.

Master in British Studies

Course Description

The Centre offers a postgraduate degreecourse in British Studies.

The aims and objectives of the course are:� to enable students to add competence inBritish Studies to qualifications acquired ontheir first degree course� to prepare students for executive positionsin firms and institutions which deal with theUnited Kingdom or other English-speakingnations� to promote cross-cultural understanding,communication, and mobility� to teach students interdisciplinary meth-ods and approaches, enabling them to thinkand work contextually� to provide students with an understandingof the characteristic features and the transfor-mations of British identities and institutionsin a European perspective.


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Course structure

The postgraduate degree course in BritishStudies is an interdisciplinary teaching pro-gramme. It consists of a Certificate Phase (12months) followed by a Master Phase (6months). Having successfully completed theCertificate Phase, students receive a “BritishStudies” certificate. After successfulcompletion of the entire course, students areawarded the degree “Master in BritishStudies” (M.B.S.).

The Certificate Phase comprises about 30weeks of teaching, divided into two phasesof roughly equal length. The first phase (‘CoreProgramme’) consists of a series of lecturesand seminars which are compulsory for all stu-dents. In the second phase (‘Options Pro-gramme’) students can choose one out of twooptions (see below). Students have to attendan average of around 20 hours of classes perweek. These may include suitable classestaught in other departments.During the Master Phase students spend aboutthree months with a firm or institution in Brit-ain. In the remaining three months they areexpected to write their M.B.S. thesis.

Core Programme

The Core Programme consists of teaching units(lectures, seminars, theme-oriented projectworks etc.) covering the following topics:� Information management.� The history of the United Kingdom.� The UK’s legal systems and their develop-ment.� The history of literature, culture, and thearts in the UK.� The history of ideas and mentalities in theUK.� The UK’s economic and social history sincethe Industrial Revolution.� The UK’s present social stratification.� The development of Britain’s political system.� Cultural Studies theories and methods.

Options Programme

The Options Programme allows students tospecialise by choosing one of the followingtwo options:The option „Economy, law and politics“comprises teaching units covering thefollowing topics:� Britain’s economic and financial systemand economic culture� Selected areas of Britain’s legal systems� The contemporary political system andculture of the UK.The option „Culture, Media and CulturalManagement“ comprises teaching unitscovering the following topics:� British elite culture and popular culture� British media past and present� Culture as a market and its promotion.

Admission requirements

� Applicants should have a good first univer-sity degree.� Candidates are required to have a very goodknowledge of English and a working know-ledge of German and to be highly motivated.

Detailed information about matriculationprocedures and dates is available from theCentre by post, telephone or e-mail and onthe Centre’s website.


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M.B.S. StudentsClass 2002-2004

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No. Name Nationality First Degree

1. Auketayeva, Gulnara Kazakh International Economics 2. Bischof, Dunja-Maria German Business Administration 3. Celen, Firdevs Funda Turkish International Relations 4. Divjakovic, Neda Yugoslavian English 5. Günözü, Mustafa Turkish English 6. Hartmann, Maike German History 7. Kartal, Belma Bosnian English 8. Krajewska, Atina Polish Law 9. Lipske, Nadine German English; Book Studies; French Literature10. Littek, Manon-Sara German German; Philosophy11. Löscher, Anett German English12. Meinshausen, Christina German European Political Sciences13. Orendi, Dagmar German Translator (English, Spanish)14. Oyatomari, Mariana Argentine Translator (English, Spanish)15. Petkova, Daniela Bulgarian English16. Przeczek, Marzena Polish Translator (English)17. Sack-Hauchwitz, Anja-Lena German Graphic Design; English; Spanish18. Schossé, Thomas German Law19. Streier, Jeanette German Law20. Sun, Yueqiang Chinese English; Computer Science21. Svatonova, Pavlina Czech Information Management22. Tali, Marko Estonian International Law; History23. Zhang, Qiang Chinese English


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Class 2003-2005

1. Backhaus, Anja German History; Communication Studies 2. Chylkowska, Katarzyna Polish Library Studies 3. Ellenberger, Eva Swiss Scandinavian Studies; English 4. Fomina, Joanna Ukrainian English 5. Gontarczyk, Beata Polish English 6. Iwasyszyn, Michal Polish English; Cultural Studies 7. Kaminska, Justyna Polish Science and Technology 8. Kohley, Andrea German Social Studies; Health and Rehabilitation 9. Milovanova, Julija Lithuanian Economics10. Monbrun, Laurent French Law11. Nikolov, Georgi Bulgarian Computer Science12. Nordmeier, Alissa German English13. Perejczuk, Maria Polish English14. Petkova, Svetlana Bulgaria Philologies15. Purvys, Virginijus Lithuanian Geography16. Rooks, Timothy American German; Communication Studies17. Tang, Jie Chinese English18. Schmitz, Elena German English; Communication Studies19. Turoczy, Györgyi Hungarian International Relations; Economics20. Wis, Patrycja Polish English21. Zimmermann, Daria Russian Education Science

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Teaching

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Core Programme 2002/2003 (WinterTerm)

Subject Lecturer

Current Affairs Rita Gerlach/Christian HandkeLegal English; Academic and Business Writing David Bowskill, Humboldt University Berlin,

Foreign Language CentreWorkshop: Presentation Techniques Christof Biggeleben; Thomas Hüsken, FreieWorkshop: Intercultural Management Universität Berlin; Olin Roenpage, UMS Consulting, FrankfurtHistory of English Literature and Ideas, Prof. Dr. Jürgen SchlaegerContemporary English Literature Prof. Dr. Jürgen SchlaegerCultural Studies: Basic Concepts, Dr. Gesa StedmanTheories and MethodsContemporary Britain James Woodall, Journalist/Author, BerlinSocial Stratification Dr. Gerry Mooney, Open University, EdinburghGeneral History Prof. Dr. Christiane EisenbergNew Media & Projet Management Martin Reitzig, LDWN Media Group Ltd., Berlin/LondonEconomic History Christof BiggelebenBritish Economy Pikay Richardson, Manchester Business SchoolLegal History and the Modern Legal System Prof. Dr. Helmut WeberPolitical System Prof. Dr. Helmut WeberConstitutional Law Prof. Dr. Gerhard Dannemann

Options Programme 2003Option I: Economy, Law and Politics (Summer Term)

Subject Lecturer

Current Affairs Christian HandkeEnglish for Special Purposes David Bowskill, Humboldt University Berlin,

Foreign Language CentreCase Readings in Tort Law Marc StauchMedia Law Marc Stauch

Law of Contracts Prof. Dr. Gerhard DannemannCase Readings in Contracts Prof. Dr. Gerhard DannemannTort Law Marc StauchFinancial System Christian HandkeEconomic Geography Andrew Elliott, Parades Commission BelfastMarketing Lynn Parkinson, City University LondonRegionalism, Centralism, Devolution Dr. Paul Carmichael, University of UlsterPolitical Parties and Interest Groups Dr. Bernd Becker, Political Consultant, BonnGerman-British Relations Christof Biggeleben


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Option II: Culture, Media and Culture Management (Summer Term)

Subject Lecturer


Foreign Language CentreMedia Law Marc StauchLiterature as a Medium of Self-Interpretation Prof. Dr. Jürgen SchlaegerContemporary Literature Prof. Dr. Jürgen SchlaegerThe Nation as Myth Rita GerlachRepresentations and Reality: Dr. Gesa StedmanClass in Art and LiteratureLiterary Field Dr. Gesa StedmanPopular Culture in Modern British Society Prof. Dr. Christiane EisenbergFilm as Art Prof. Dr. Peter Drexler, Potsdam University; PD Dr.

Jörg Helbig, Cologne/Humboldt UniversityMedia Theories/Media as Market Dr. Hugh Mackay, Open University, CardiffMedia in Consumer and Popular Society Prof. Dr. Christiane EisenbergCulture as Market Dr. Andrew Feist, City University LondonBritish Culture Management Dr. Elke Ritt, British Council GermanyMarketing Lynn Parkinson, City University London

Core Programme 2003/2004 (Winter Term)Subject Lecturer


Foreign Language CentreWorkshop: Presentation Techniques Christof Biggeleben; Thomas Hüsken, FreieWorkshop: Intercultural Management Universität Berlin; Olin Roenpage, UMS Consulting, FrankfurtHistory of English Literature Dr. Gesa StedmanContempory English Literature Dr. Gesa StedmanContemporary Britain James Woodall, Journalist/Author, BerlinCultural Studies: Basic Concepts, Rita GerlachTheories and MethodsSocial Stratification Dr. Gerry Mooney, Open University, EdinburghGeneral History Prof. Dr. Christiane EisenbergNew Media & Project Management Martin Reitzig, LDWN Media Group Ltd., Berlin/ LondonEconomic History Christof BiggelebenBritish Economy Dr. Pikay Richardson, Manchester Business SchoolThe English Legal System: Prof. Dr. Gerhard DannemannA Historical IntroductionConstitutional Law Prof. Dr. Gerhard DannemannPolitical System Marc Stauch

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Some course descriptions

The Literary Field in the UK: Making, Reading

and Selling Books

Gesa Stedman

This new course was taught by Gesa Stedmanand a number of guests. After a generaloverview of the literary field in the UK todaybased on the life-cycle of a book, journalist,writer and former editor James Woodall gavea guest lecture on the publishing world whilebroadcaster, critic, academic and formerBooker Prize judge Valentine Cunninghamshared with the students his experience ofjudging literary prizes. A visit to the literatureofficer of the British Council, Marijke Brouwer,gave the students insights into practicalaspects of the work the British Council doeswith authors. Marijke Brouwer explained howshe uses checklists to organise her manyevents and festivals and the students wereallowed to ask many questions. The course’scombination of theory and practicalexperience proved to be very interesting forthe students and the seminar will be repeatednext year.

Special Tutorial: Writing a Research Paper

Gesa Stedman

Gesa Stedman offered a special tutorial onwriting a research paper for students whowanted extra tuition in this field. A group cametogether to work on the various aspects ofacademic writing, ranging from avoidingplagiarism to footnotes, bibliographies to thereliability (or otherwise) of internet sources.Using practical examples such as various typesof texts and writing (paraphrase, plagiarism,quotation), a badly designed research paperwhich needed urgent revision and techniquessuch as clustering, mind-mapping anddeveloping a writing plan, the studentsgained considerable confidence with regardto their writing skills. This optional coursehas also been integrated into the Centre’scurriculum.

Current Affairs

Christian W. Handke

Part of the M.B.S. curriculum is a weeklyseminar on current affairs in the UnitedKingdom. These seminars provide a forum forthe discussion of contemporary developmentsin British society, including British culture andthe arts, politics, law and the economy. Theunit aims to prepare students for their stay inthe UK during the work placement. It providesstudents with an opportunity to practise theirpresentation, language and social skills ingroup work and without the pressure of formalassessment. The seminars are organised so asto accommodate input and suggestions fromparticipating students. They typically consistof a student presentation of about twentyminutes, followed by a group discussion.Students are encouraged to closely follow theBritish media as a preparation for the seminars.

The UK Financial System: Banks, Insurances and

Stock Markets

Christian W. Handke

This Option 1 teaching unit builds upon thefirst semester core units in economics. Theexpansion of financial intermediation andtrading is widely regarded as being one of thedriving forces for wider economicdevelopments and the United Kingdom hostssome of the most significant financial centresworld-wide. Successful participants in this unitwill develop a fundamental understanding ofthe following issues: first, the functions andstructures of the UK financial system and theway in which the major actors operate;secondly, the economic and wider socialsignificance of the UK financial system inBritain and beyond; thirdly, explanations of thefinancial system’s dynamic development in acontext of internationalisation, re-regulationand technological change.


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Introduction to the UK Political System

Marc Stauch

This core unit is designed to familiarise studentswith the main features of the British or‘Westminster’ model of politics. After a broadintroduction outlining the historical genesis ofparliamentary democracy in the UK, as well asits defining attributes and underlying logic, theseminars examine the following elements ingreater detail: the UK electoral system andvoting patterns; the main British political partiesand their ideologies; the Houses of Parliament,the Prime Minister and Cabinet; the civil service;the judiciary; UK local and regional government;constitutional reform and future prospects.During the course, students will engage withboth written and video materials and also beencouraged to follow current political debatesin the UK.

Media Law

Marc Stauch

This unit, which is offered on both the Option 1and Option 2 programmes, approaches theanalysis of the law relating to the media fromthe following standpoint: under whatcircumstances, and to what extent, may the lawrestrict the media’s prima facie right to freedomof expression (a right enshrined in Article 10 ofthe European Convention on Human Rights)? Inaddressing this question, the coursedistinguishes between public law justificationsfor restrictions (laws on obscenity, blasphemy,public order and contempt of court) and privatelaw ones (laws on defamation, privacy, breachof confidence, and copyright). Students arerequired to engage directly with primary legaltexts (statutes and cases) and to developproficiency in understanding and analysingcomplex legal arguments.

Tort Law

Marc Stauch

In this unit, offered as part of the Option 1programme, students study a major branch ofthe law of obligations under the common law.The main focus is upon the tort of negligence, afundamental area of private law, which protects

people from harm in many facets of dailylife, although some time is also given overto the torts of battery and nuisance. Duringthe seminars, students are introduced tovarious common law legal concepts, suchas ‘duty of care’, ‘breach of duty’, ‘causation-in-fact’, and ‘remoteness of damage’. Thestudents’ ability to read and assimilateEnglish case law is also encouraged through‘case-reading’ exercises.

Excursion to Wolfsburg

On 10 January 2003, students and staff ofthe Centre went on an excursion toWolfsburg to see the exhibition „From Blastto Freeze: 20th Century British Art“. Ratherthan a comment on the cold weather, thetitle of the exhibition referred to the firstimportant British art movement of the 20thcentury - vorticism and its manifesto ‘Blast’- as well as an important exhibition set upby Damien Hirst and other artists of hisgeneration, known as ‘Young British Artists’or YBA at the end of the century. In betweenthese two highlights, the curators at theWolfsburg Kunstmuseum showedeverything from pop art to conceptual art,recent sculptures by Rachel Whiteread andAnish Kapoor to Bloomsbury paintings andsculptures by Barbara Hepworth and HenryMoore. Two guided tours, one in Englishand one in German, gave students and staffa chance to understand the developmentsin 20th-century British art and to see forthemselves how British and continental artinteracted in the past century.

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Excursion to Krongut Bornstedt

On Sat, 28 June 2003, students and staff,professors, junior lecturers, administrative andstudent staff attended the British Days andCountry Fair at Bornstedt country estate nearPotsdam. Together, we enjoyed British foodand drinks and looked at (or bought some of)the products and handicraft on show. Theafternoon programme included Scottishbagpipes and Irish folk music, falconry andstreet theatre, welly throwing as well as justsitting on the lawn.The real picnic followed: an open air Last Nightof the Proms concert was given by theDeutsche Filmorchester Babelsberg conductedby Scott Lawton (who also showed lots ofBritish humour guiding Berlin Promenadersthrough the programme). Together with(Union-Jack-wearing) solo ist DeborahHawksley, they performed classical pieces byRossini, Grieg and Bizet and film themes fromE.T. and The Godfather. Naturally, the starrynight was crowned by the traditionalhumming-singing-clapping-shouting-alongwith “Rule Britannia”, “Jerusalem”, “Land ofHope and Glory”, “God Save the Queen” and“Auld Lang Syne”.

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Additional Teaching

Prof. Dr. Gerhard DannemannSeminar: English, German and

European Contract Law Compared

Professor Dannemann taught this seminar

at the Humboldt’s Law Faculty during the

winter term. The seminar treated

fundamental issues in contract law from a

comparative perspective, focusing on two

domestic legal systems, i.e. English and

German law, and those provisions of EU law

which concern contract law questions, such

as the Consumer Sales Directive and the

Distance Sale Directive.

Professor Eisenberg offered the followingcourses to students in the HumboldtUniversity’s History Department during the2003 summer semester:

Seminar: Von Marx bis Dahrendorf:

Soziologische Interpretationen des

„britischen Sonderwegs“

Lecture series: Sozialstruktur und

Gesellschaft in Großbritannien 1000-

2000: Eine Einführung in die britische

Geschichte und die Sozialstruktur-

analyse.

In the winter semester 2003/04 ProfessorEisenberg taught the following courses in theHistory Department:

Seminar: Pfadabhängigkeiten und

Sperrklinkeneffekte: Das Problem der

Kontinuität in der englischen Geschichte

Lecture series: Die britische „middle

class“ 1800-2000.

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Internships

Some Student Voices

Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh

Thomas Schossé

When Jackie Baillie MSP offered to take on astudent from the GBZ for an internship I in-stantly knew this would pose a perfect oppor-tunity for me to return to Scotland. I had oncestudied law there for a year and was especiallycurious about the recent political changes. Inaddition, it is always highly important forsomeone with a legal background to receivea practical insight into the whole process oflegislation. Before leaving for Edinburgh, stilla breathtakingly charming city, I already gath-ered information about prospective projects.Ms Baillie deals with a variety of topics and Imainly decided to contribute to her two mostcomplex projects - on the reform of ScottishCharity Law and of Planning Law - by draftingspeeches and reports on conferences. Further-more, I assisted the Labour Resource Centreat the Parliament in comparing the manifes-tos of several parties.As regards the practice of an MSP, I received acomprehensive overview by attending confer-ences, the Chamber (especially First Minister’sand Ministers’ Question Time), Committee andother business meetings as well as travellingto the Constituency office in Dumbarton andparticipating in surgeries. Right from the start,I was able to work independently and the of-fice facilities were excellent. On top of it, theMinister for Culture and Tourism sat next tome and we did not only talk about Scottishpolitics.

UK Trade and Investment, London

Neda Divjakovic

I started my three-month internship at TradePartners UK and I ended it at UK Trade andInvestment, only I did not change organisa-tions. They were already in the process of tran-sition from one structure and method of workto another, but the final change of name andimage happened while I was there. This

meant that I was not alone in getting used tonew circumstances and it was both fun andhelpful seeing how other members of theteam coped with the changes. UK Trade andInvestment was established some five yearsago by the Department of Trade and Industryand the Foreign and Commonwealth Office,with the aim of supporting British companiesexporting overseas, as well as foreigncompanies investing in the UK. I worked asan assistant to the desk officer dealing withBritish companies interested in exporting tothe Western Balkans, but during my internshipI also got involved in the work of other desks,those for Turkey and the Caspian states. Thepeople I worked with were young,enthusiastic and liked travelling - an importantaspect of their work. They were all veryfriendly, helpful and supportive, which mademe feel like a part of the team from the verystart. Already at the beginning of my timethere, I got the task of co-ordinating a studyvisit of a Serbian delegation to Norwich andLondon. Before the event I spent a weekendin Norwich in order to meet the mainorganisers: they were wonderful hosts andmanaged to take me to the most interestingsites of Norfolk in just a couple of days. Thestudy visit was a success, just like the rest ofmy internship too, and the whole experienceof working and living in London gave a properboost to my self-confidence.

Britain in Europe, London

Christina-Maria Meinshausen

Having studied European politics andequipped with an interest in politicalcampaigning, I joined the pro-Europeancampaigning group Britain in Europe for myinternship period. Britain in Europe waslaunched on 14 October 1999 by a historiccross-party coalition of the prime minister,Tony Blair; the chancellor of the exchequer,Gordon Brown; the former deputy primeminister, Michael Heseltine; the formerchancellor of the exchequer, Kenneth Clarke;and the leader of the Liberal Democrat party,Charles Kennedy. As the autumn and earlywinter 2003 have been lively political times,

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The National Trust, Castle Ward,

Northern Ireland

Mariana Oyatomari

the three months flew by and before I couldsay the word Christmas, I found it was timeto leave London and the organisation,equipped with a good insight into theworkings of political campaigning, managingpublic and press relations and putting forwardpro-European arguments to a British publicwhich is sceptical of them to say the least. Asit is part of the everyday routine to monitorthe national press very closely, broadsheet aswell as tabloid, I now feel I know the Britishpress landscape and its language quite well,shocked at times when reading certainpublications. Responding to public enquiries,dismantling anti-European myths such as “TheBritish will be forced to drive on the right ifthey agree to the European constitution” and“That British shopkeepers will be jailed if theysell potatoes by the pound” and publishingpress releases kept me busy and informed,stunned at times by the xenophobic rhetoricof certain “serious” politicians. Working forBritain in Europe also made me realise thatBritain still has a long way to go down theEuropean road and that George Orwell insaying that “Fifty years on from now, Britainwill still be the country of long shadows oncountry [cricket] grounds, warm beer,invincible green suburbs, dog lovers, and oldmaids bicycling to Holy Communion throughthe morning mist” was not all that wrong.

My internship period at Castle Ward was likea dream come true! I was able to combine myinterdisciplinary studies with my keen interestin country houses and art. And my experiencethere proved to be immensely enriching, bothwith regard to professional and personalaspects. As my intention was to have a feel ofhow a property with a historic building isoverall managed, I chose to spend some timein all the different departments at Castle Ward,such as gardens, estate, visitor management,house conservation, wildlife centre andadministration, which allowed me to beinvited to be photographed with the HouseSteward, my supervisor, for an article aboutcountry houses that appeared in The NewsLetter, one of the most important newspapersin Northern Ireland.

A View from the other Side: a

Placement Provider’s experience

UK Trade and Investment

A student from the Centre completed a highlysuccessful internship with UK Trade andInvestment (UKTI) from September 3 to

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November 28 2003. (UKTI) is the BritishGovernment organisation that supportscompanies in the UK trading internationally,and overseas enterprises seeking to locate inthe UK. The student worked in theManagement Unit dealing with Turkey, CentralAsia and the Balkans as a research assistantand provided important administrativesupport to the team. She was involved in awide variety of activities including:

· Organising a study visit for a Serbiandelegation to the UK

· Undertaking Trade related research· Compiling information and writing

briefings on companies· Answering enquiries from UKTI

customers

· Assisting in the organisation ofconferences and meetings

· Performing a range of administrativetasks to help ensure the smooth dailyrunning of the Unit

In addition to gaining a thorough insight intothe workings of UKTI the intern had theopportunity to see how the organisation co-ordinates its work with other governmentinstitutions including British Embassiesoverseas; high level officials including seniordiplomats from foreign Embassies in the UK;Business Links and Chambers of Commerce.All of these partners perform a key role inenhancing international trade.Wayne Lewis, Deputy Director - Europe

Auketayeva, GulnaraBischof, Dunja

Celen, Firdevs Funda

Divjakovic, NedaGünözü, MustafaHartmann, MaikeKartal, BelmaKrajewska, AtinaLipske, NadineLittek, Manon-SarahLöscher, AnettMeinshausen, Christina M.Orendi, DagmarOyatomari, MarianaPetkova, DanielaPrzeczek, Marzena

Sack-Hauchwitz, Anja-LenaSchossé, ThomasStreier, JeanetteSun, YueqiangSvatonova, PavlinaTali, Marko

Zhang, Qiang

Name Institution/Firm

House of Commons, Robert Walter MPAnglo-German Foundation, London; Scottish Poverty InformationUnit, GlasgowTurkish-British Chamber of Commerce, London; House of Commons,Sandra Osborne MPUK Trade and Investment, LondonTurkish-British Chamber of Commerce. LondonBritish Olympic Association, LondonInstitute for War and Peace Reporting, LondonHuman Fertilisation & Embryology Authority, LondonGerman-Irish Chamber of Commerce, DublinHouse of Commons, Ben Bradshaw MPHigher Education Funding Council, BristolBritain in Europe, LondonNational Trust, Brancaster Staithe, NorfolkNational Trust, Castle Ward, Northern IrelandHouse of Commons, Jim Murphy MPThe Malcolm Muggeridge Society, Eythorne, Kent; Polish CulturalInstitute, London; Bloomsbury Publishing, LondonAnglolang Academy of English, ScarboroughScottish Parliament, Jackie Baillie MSPGerman-British Chamber of Commerce, LondonHouse of Commons, Bill Rammell MPBritish Council, BerlinCompanies House, Cardiff; Estonian-British Chamber of Commerce,LondonBBC Radio: Chinese Department, London


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Master Theses 2003

This year the students again covered a wide range of subjects in their theses. Each year the Centreawards a small prize to the best-written Master Thesis of the course. In 2003 Izabela Ahmad receivedthis distinction with her paper on “Global Brand Management - A Comparative Study of the GlobalMagazine Brand COSMOPOLITAN with an Emphasis on the British Market”.

FOTOS ZEUGNISVERLEIHUNg

Name

Ahmad, Izabela

Baciulis, MartynasBerens, SilviaBöhm, AnnetteBoncheva, JulianaBota, CarmenCakmak, FidelCretan, Mihaela-Carla

Drerup, BirgitGelemerova, LiliyaHartmann, GabiJin, Yu-WeiKozuchowska, Aneta

Ostermann, Micha

Platz, Henrike

Sonnenstuhl, InaStavila, Iuliana Veronica

Urbonaviciute, ZivileVu Thanh, HangWolter, UlrikeZeng, Li

Titel

Global Brand Management. A Comparative Study of the GlobalMagazine Brand COSMOPOLITAN with an Emphasis on the British MarketEnglish Language in Europe: Eurospeak and British LegaleseIntercultural Communication at WorkEarly Mormon Stereotypes in British FictionThe Language of Advertising – A UK PerspectiveCultural Tourism: A Scottish Case StudyThe Gender Pay Gap in Great Britain: Fact or Fiction?Does Britain Have a Strong Allegiance with Europe? British ForeignPolicy Towards EuropeA Modernised Local Government. Can New Labour Deliver?Is the British Electoral System Mature?The Countryside in Crisis. Rural England Reclaims Liberty and LivelihoodBranding in the UK’s B2B Financial Services MarketScotland in the European Union – An Independent Role or Merely aFootnote in London’s European Policy?“What’s Past is Prologue”. British Identities in Zadie Smith’s Novel ‘WhiteTeeth’The British Diplomacy towards Germany and the Role of BritishAmbassadors in Berlin (1871-1939)Privatisation in the UK. A Successful Transformation?To be or not to be... an autobiography. The Question of Definition andSelf-representation in Literary Criticism and in Two VictorianAutobiographiesThe Party at a Crossroad: Changing Politics of Sinn FeinChild Poverty in the UK: The Case of the Devolved ScotlandThe Museum of Scotland. A Mirror of Scottish IdentityThe Transitions and Developments of British Broadcasting Policy


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ResearchGeneral Projects

Commerce and Culture - The British

Experience

treatment, legislators would be preventedfrom deliberately discriminating ininternational cases. On the other hand,criticism will be directed against Continentaldoctrine and court practice which seeks to givethe same far-reaching powers to courts in othercomplex international situations.

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Dannemann

Accidental Discrimination in the

Conflict of Laws

Cases connected to different legal systems canget a rough ride, simply because applicablerules are not dovetailed to each other. This isfrequently the case if one of the systemsinvolved belongs to the common law and theother to the civil law world. In combination,they can produce results which are notintended by either system involved –insufficient maintenance or benefits, heirsreceiving more or less than they should,criminals punished too harshly, marriages

As a backdrop to the issue of accidentaldiscrimination, this project also deals withthe following topics: (1) Public InternationalLaw influences on Conflict of Laws, (2) whyand how norms which are not applicableaccording to conflict rules may neverthelessinfluence the outcome of a case, and (3) theinternational sphere of application ofdomestic, European and international humanrights provisions.

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Dannemann

Existing EC Private Law

Professor Dannemann is one of the foundingmembers of the European Research Group onEC Private Law (Acquis Group). Founded in2002, this Group currently consists of morethan 30 legal scholars from all EU memberstates and accession candidates. As a reactionto various activities undertaken by EUinstitutions in the field of European contractlaw, the Acquis Group aims to achieve asystematic arrangement of existingCommunity law which will help to elucidatethe common structures of the emergingCommunity private law. In order to achievethis, the Acquis Group primarily concentratesupon existing EC private law which can bediscovered within the acquis communautaire.The research of the Acquis Group will bepublished as „Principles of Existing ECContract Law“. Further information can beobtained at: http://www.acquis-group.org.

which cannot be dissolved, cases which nocourt wants to hear. A research projectdevoted to this topic was completed during2003. The results will be published as a bookin 2004. It will be argued that courts areempowered to modify or ignore applicablerules in order to avoid such accidentaldiscrimination, to the degree that, underhigher ranking principles of equality of

This project deals with the relationshipbetween commerce and culture in Britain. Itplaces a special emphasis on the culturalindustries which developed much earlier inBritain than in other European countries andare today among the fastest growing parts ofthe economy.Research will focus on the one hand on the17th, 18th and early 19th centuries, since Britainwas a fully developed commercial society evenin pre-industrial times and this commercialtradition has shaped industrial society up tothe present day. On the other hand, the projectwill also examine the present tendencies ofinternationalisation and globalisation. Anunderlying question is whether the early riseof a commercial society is an asset or a burdenas regards successful development in the longrun. A comparison between Britain and otherEuropean countries will form part of theresearch undertaken in this project.In September 2003 professors Dannemannand Eisenberg presented the idea of the projectto the Stiftung Volkswagenwerk, whoencouraged them to make it the subject of aresearch application and submit it for theprogramme “Schlüsselprobleme derGeisteswissen-schaften”.


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Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schlaeger

Structures of Cultural Transformations

Cultures are characterised by the differentways in which they have developed their ownsystems of representation, of moral andaesthetic values, of behavioural standards, ofeveryday practices and have set up theinstitutional arrangements which makepossible as well as regulate these processes.Both, the existing cultural paradigms as wellas the ways in which they transformthemselves, are time and culture specific.Openness or resistance to external influences,the structures of the relationship betweenvarious areas of cultural activities, between‘high’ and popular cultures, the strategieswith which they practise amalgamation andexclusion, recognition of indebtedness ordenial of it, continuity and change – theseare some of the aspects which define thestructure of a particular culture at any giventime. The project will discuss themethodological and theoretical implicationsinvolved in the attempt to define and analysecultural paradigms and it will do that by acombination of general reflection and a rangeof case studies.A second long-term research project isconcerned with recent developments in theneuro-sciences and the impact of their theo-ries and models on the existing theories ofculture and cultural memory.

Dr. Gesa Stedman

Dr. Gesa Stedman is currently working on aproject on Anglo-French relations in the 17thcentury and on women as cultural mediators.In this context, she spent two monthsresearch leave at the British Library in London,funded by the German Historical Institute.Gesa Stedman also co-hosted a conference oncultural exchange which she organisedtogether with Professor MargareteZimmermann from the Technical University inBerlin. The conference was funded by theGerda-Henkel-Stiftung and was attended byscholars from Italy, France and Germany. GesaStedman has also continued her work within

the field of emotions history, this time with afocus on Shakespeare and the feelings in theearly modern period.

PhD Projects

Christof Biggeleben, Entrepreneurs and

Entrepreneurial Behaviour in Berlin and

London, 1871 -1918

Christof Biggeleben compares the role ofentrepreneurs and bankers in Berlin andLondon. The main focus is less on theirpositions as responsible managers or leadersof a company but on their commitment to ur-urban society, their patronage of culture andphilanthropy, and their membership andinvolvement in institutions such as clubs andchambers of commerce. Consequently, theproject concentrates on the particular rolechambers and clubs played as upholders ofthe middle-class behaviour and valuesdescribed above.

Rita Gerlach, Cultural Economics /

Cultural Studies: British and German

Theatre Funding

The thesis is part of the Centre’s research focuson Commerce and Culture – Cultures ofCommerce. Located in the field of CulturalStudies, it will examine the British and Germanarts sectors while taking into account therecently developed discipline of CulturalEconomics and its methods and approaches.Concentrating on the theatre, the thesis willcompare the different ways and methods offinancing and stimulating the arts and thepublic discourse about, for example, stateownership versus private commitment asrooted in (national) culture, values andtraditions.

Christian W. Handke, Cultural

Economics : Innovators in the Phono-

gram Sector – Measuring Innovation

in Culture

This thesis forms part of the Centre’s researchproject on “Culture and Commerce – thecommercialisation of culture” and the researchproject on “Rewarding Creativity: cultural


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economic models of payments to creativeworkers under new technologies” of ErasmusUniversity, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It setsout to gain new insights for the managementof intellectual property regimes by identifyingdrivers of innovation. Cultural economics andinnovation studies are synthesised in order togenerate indicators for innovation in culturalindustries. On this basis, innovation processesconducted by various types of agents in thephonogram sectors of Britain and Germanywill be evaluated.

Marc Stauch, A Comparative Analysis of

English and German Medical Negligence

Law

This dissertation aims to analyse variousconceptual and practical problems that arisewithin medical negligence law - a contentiousfield whose legal treatment is often perceivedto involve a number of special difficulties andshortcomings. This area of the law offers anespecially rich field for comparative study sinceits principles, both in Germany and England,are derived for the most part from case law,thus allowing for a direct comparison ofjudicial reasoning under civil and common lawlegal systems.

Multimedia Project

research, the Centre was awarded 12,200EURO for its new media projects. Newcomputers, a beamer and technical assistancehave helped to develop two pilot projects.Rita Gerlach, Gesa Stedman and the studentassistant Natascha Schuler worked on therestructuring of some of the courses so as toprovide students with webbased learningmaterials and to improve the use of differentmedia for teaching. Initially, two courses(National Identity and Cultural Studies: BasicTheories and Methods) have been redesignedwith this aim in mind. They are now availablefor use and draw on a wide range of images,film clips, texts and internet links to maketeaching and learning more exciting.

As part of the Humboldt University’s initiativepromoting new media in teaching and

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On the basis of CLAROLINE, a content-management programme developed espe-cially for academic courses, the Centre is nowable to put its course outlines, bibliographiesetc. on the net and to use the new format forfurther courses.


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Publications

Books

Marion Müller, ‘These savage beasts

become domestick’: The discourse of the

passions in early modern England. Trier:WVT, 2004, 236 pp., 8 b&w illustrations, EUR24.00.

This book aims to examine the perception ofthe passions in non-fictional, early modernEnglish texts. Its corpus is divided into twomain groups: rhetorical textbooks and tractsand treatises about the passions. The bookshows that in sixteenth-century rhetorics therewas an emerging awareness of the passionsnot only as literary tools but also as extra-literary phenomena existing in the worldbeyond the page. In the seventeenth centurythe passions achieved a growing emancipationfrom rhetoric and were increasingly viewedas objects of study in their own right. Ananalysis of texts by Thomas Wright, Benet ofCanfield, Jean François Senault, EdwardReynolds and Walter Charleton demonstratesthat, despite these writers’ awareness that thepassions account for unsettling ambiguitiesin the human person, they all were ready tofind value, or potential value in the passions.Moreover, an exploration of the marriagebetween faith and reason offers an explanationas to why this might be so. For the book claimsthat, according to the seventeenth-centuryauthors under consideration, a passion – amorDei – is the alpha and omega of ‘emotionalintelligence’. It furthermore shows that thedesire to understand the passions isindissolubly linked with the quest for the self.

Further Publications

Christof Biggeleben

Biggeleben, Christof: “Kontinuität vonBürgerlichkeit im Berliner Unternehmertum.Der Verein Berliner Kaufleute und Industrieller(1879-1961)“, in: Berghahn, Volker/Unger,Stefan/Ziegler, Dieter (eds.), Die deutscheWirtschaftselite im 20. Jahrhundert:Kontinuität und Mentalität, Essen 2003, 241-274.-: Review of Dorrmann, Michael, EduardArnhold (1849-1925). Eine biographischeStudie zu Unternehmer- und Mäzenatentumim Deutschen Kaiserreich, Berlin 2002,Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte 2/2003, 245-246.

Gerhard Dannemann

Gerhard Dannemann continued as GeneralEditor of the Oxford University ComparativeLaw Forum.

Christiane Eisenberg

Eisenberg, Christiane: “The Culture ofModernity: London and Paris around 1900”,in: Andreas Fahrmeir/Elfie Rembold (eds.),Representation of British Cities. TheTransformation of Urban Space, 1700-2000 (=Schriften des Arbeitskreises Deutsche England-Forschung), Berlin/Wien 2003, 130-148.-: “Die Entdeckung des Sports durch dieGeschichtswissenschaft, Vortragsfassung“ in:Hans Joachim Teichler (ed.), Moden und Trendsim Sport und der Sportgeschichte (= Schriftender Deutschen Vereinigung fürSportgeschichte, vol. 133), Hamburg 2003,31-44.-: ”From England to the World: The Spread ofModern Soccer Football 1863-2000“, MovingBodies 1, 2003, H. 1, 7-22.-: “Möglichkeiten und Grenzen derKonsumgeschichte: das Beispiel desSportkonsums”, in: Michael Prinz (ed.), Derlange Weg in den Überfluss. Anfänge undEntwicklung der Konsumgesellschaft seit derVormoderne, Paderborn 2003, 515-531.-: ”The Commercialisation of Cultures – theCultures of Commerce“. Diskussionsbeitrag fürdie Tagung „Kulturwissenschaften in der

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Anglistik – Eine Standortbestimmung“,Dortmund, 8.-10.4.03, in: http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/britcult/DOFPEisenberg.htm-: “Kulturtransfer als historischer Prozess. EinBeitrag zur Komparatistik”, in: HartmutKaelble/Jürgen Schriewer (eds.), Vergleich undTransfer. Komparatistik in den Sozial-,Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften,Frankfurt/M. and New York 2003, 399-417.

Rita Gerlach

Gerlach, Rita: Review of Eger, Thomas (eds):Kulturelle Prägungen wirtschaftlicherInstitutionen und wirtschaftspolitischerReformen, Berlin 2002, Historische Literatur.Rezensionszeitschrift von H-Soz-u-Kult(HistLit), vol. 1, 2003, no. 1 (January – March),457.-: “Interdisziplinarität“. Panelbeitrag für dieTagung „Kulturwissenschaften in der Anglistik– Eine Standortbestimmung“, Dortmund, 8.-10.4.03, in: http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/britcult/DOInterdisziplinarit%E4tGerlach.htm.

Jürgen Schlaeger

Schlaeger, Jürgen: “London: Tomorrow’sYesterday, Future Images of the Past” in AfterImages of the City, Joan Ramon Resina andDieter Ingenschay (eds.), Cornell UniversityPress, Ithaca 2003, 49-60.-:“Parallel Explorations: Exploring the Self inthe Late Sixteenth and Early SeventeenthCenturies” in Mapping the Self: Space, Identity,Discourse in British Auto/Biography, FrédéricRegard (ed.), Publications de l’Université deSaint-Étienne, Saint-Étienne 2003, 33-54.-:“Mis-Representing the City” in(Mis)Representations. Intersections of Cultureand Power, Fernando Galvan, Canero Serrano& Jose Santiaogo Fernandez Vazquez (eds.),Peter Lang, Bern 2003.

Marc Stauch

Stauch, Marc: “The frozen embryos case: acomment”, ChildRight (a journal of theUniversity of Essex), October 2003, 18-19.

Events

Highlights

The 24th British-Berlin Seminar

10-12 March 2003

This annual event is intended to promote anexchange of ideas between members of theBritish Army (which was a protecting powerin Berlin until 1994) and representatives ofvarious professions in Berlin. The Centre hasnow been organising the event, which wasoriginally set up by private initiative, for fouryears . This year’s participants were Britishofficers on the one hand, and officers of theBundeswehr, Managers from companies suchas DaimlerChrysler Services, Schering andSiemens, as well as lecturers, teachers andstudents from Berlin universities and schoolson the other. Topics discussed ranged fromforeign and international security policy toBerlin economics and politics.The speakers came from different professionalbackgrounds, including journalism, politicsand academia: Elisabeth Pond, a well-knownjournalist and author of several books onforeign policy described Nato’s “Greektragedy” in the Iraq Crisis, when the Bushadministration shocked its partners by sayingit will pick and choose ad hoc coalitions andnot be swayed by permanent allies. Prof. JamesWyllie, Director of Conflict and SecurityStudies at Aberdeen University, analysed theeffects this decison had on Britain andGermany. Subjects of other papers includedthe comparison of leadership concepts inarmies and companies (Dr. Ian Lawson,


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expected, to be an excellent way of drawingthe visitors’ attention to the exhibits. Otherhighlights included the invitation to membersof a Berlin Rugby Club to demonstrate theirsport as part of the event’s outdoor activities,and the provision of some typically Britishcatering, including lemonade, cucumbersandwiches and cream teas.During the preparation for the event, whichtook place within Martin Reitzig’s course,“New Media and Entrepreneurship”, thestudents were divided into several subgroups:Production, Marketing (featuring Sponsoringand Advertising), and Internal Communication.Production collected and arranged all thematerial eventually presented in the sectionsHistory, Geography, Politics, Sports, Music,Arts, Eccentricities and Literature. TheSponsoring group issued various invitations,thus drawing attention to the coming event,and succeeded in obtaining major monetarycontributions from the Anglo-GermanFoundation, the Centre for British Studies andOptik Streier. The British Embassy, the BritishCouncil and Broken English also supported theproject by generously donating gifts whichproved to be major attractions as prizes inthe quiz accompanying the students’exhibition. The Advertising group establishedvaluable contacts with the press office of theHumboldt University, the Media Centre of theHumboldt University’s site in Adlershof, and

Industrial Society, London), an insight into thepresent economic situation in Berlin (Prof.Michael Tolksdorf, Pro-Vice Chancellor FHWBerlin), and an analysis of the two competingmodels of capitalism of Britain and Germany(Dr. Ray Cunningham, Anglo-GermanFoundation). Many of the individualconversations between the participants,however, were more concerned with thesituation of those British officers who had toleave for Iraq immediately after the seminar.So this annual meeting again proved to beextremely successful in bringing differentpeople together, who would normally notmeet. The seminar has become a key event inthe Centre’s calendar and is supported by theBritish Embassy and the British Army. One ofits highlights was a reception for theparticipants given by the president of theBerliner Abgeordnetenhaus, the former LordMayor Walter Momper. In March 2004,Siemens AG will support the seminar and oneday of the conference will take place at theirBerlin headquarters.

Hidden Britain – There’s More to her

than Meets the Eye

17 June 2003

Once a year, the Berlin universities as well asnumerous other centres of research anddevelopment welcome visitors to theirlaboratories, archives and lecture halls andintroduce themselves to the wider publicduring the “Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften”(roughly, ‘the Long Night of Academic Science’).Through conversations with representativesof the respective institutions, potentialstudents or staff as well as members of thegeneral public obtain an insight intootherwise hidden aspects of academia.As part of their project work, the 2002/04M.B.S. course represented the Centre for BritishStudies during this event on 14 June 2003.Under the heading “Hidden Britain – There’sMore to her Than Meets the Eye”, the studentsdrew the visitors’ attention to rather less wellknown facts, figures and curiosities regardingthe British isles. A key feature of the students’presentation was a quiz that turned out, as


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to an external graphic designer whoseassistance proved to be vital for designingposters, flyers and T-Shirts. Advertising wasalso responsible for creating a web page thatboth announced the event and introduced theM.B.S. course to the page’s visitors. InternalCommunication was responsible for thebudget and the co-ordination of all the on-going activities, called meetings and kept aneye on the schedule.The students managed to attract aconsiderable number of visitors, the pick-a-poem-section and the quiz being particularattractions. A shift system had been preparedin advance, so that apart from those on dutythe M.B.S. students had the opportunity toenjoy themselves and to roam about thecampus visiting other attractions.

Creative Writing Workshop with Jo

Shapcott

17 January 2003

In Mid-January, poet Jo Shapcott, perhaps bestknown for her ‘mad cow poems’, accompaniedby poet John Hartley Williams, conducted acreative writing workshop with the Centre’sstudents. They were introduced to some ofthe authors’ poems and were then asked towrite a poem themselves. First, they had tothink of an animal which they would like tobe and write a poem accordingly which theyall did. Then, they were asked to imaginethemselves as a contemporary British poet.They had to decide their regional or ethnicorigin and then write a poem in the voice ofthis imagined contemporary poet. Theworkshop was a great success and offered thestudents a welcome break from moreconventional teaching and exam preparation.

Creative Writing Workshop and Reading

with Ali Smith

10 June 2003

In June the Centre’s students had the chanceto practise creative writing with Scottish writerAli Smith. The workshop focused on the shortstory and the students were all required towrite stories themselves, first based on thedescription of everyday objects which AliSmith had brought along, and then on a set

of keywords she gave them. Again, thestudents had great fun and producedwonderful work which impressed even veterancreative writing teacher and author Ali Smith.The students were thus well prepared for thereading at the British Council which took placethe following day. Ali Smith held her audiencespell-bound with several stories from her newcollection, entitled The Whole Story and OtherStories, which was published in April 2003,and from her most recent novel, Hotel World.

“Migration and Transfer from Germany

to Britain, c. 1660 to 1914“

Colloquium at the Centre for British

Studies, 25-26 July 2003

In general terms, Germany is not flattered byhistorical comparison with Britain. Theperception of the country as economically andpolitically backward – a late developer amongcivil societies, is one that persists stubbornly,even if the ‘special path’ thesis has beensignificantly attenuated in recent years. It maythus appear only ‘natural’ that the advancedstate of development in Britain should haveattracted German migrants. However, anumber of more detailed questions concerningthis process of migration remain, which havepreviously largely escaped serious academicattention: What special skills and knowledgedid migrants from Germany bring to Britain?How did they integrate into the Britishcultural context? How far did Britain benefitfrom German migrants in other than purelydemographic terms? This colloquium,organised by the Centre for British Studies incollaboration with Stefan Manz (University ofGreenwich) and Margit Schulte-Beerbühl(Düsseldorf University), and funded by the


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British Academy, aimed to address theseissues.The twelve participants (from both Britain andGermany) investigated the distinctive roles ofa variety of migrants as mediums of culturaltransfer. These included such diverse groupsas the ‘royals’ from the House of Hanover, theBritish diplomats licensed to practise in 18th

century Bavaria, and the merchants,entrepreneurs and managers operating withina self-generated network of international tradepartnerships. Further subjects of study werethe gymnasts associated with Friedrich Jahn,German governesses in London households,and German students at Oxford.But if the discussion was initially sparked offby considerations of such individualcontributions to the success or otherwise ofcultural transfers, it had turned by the end ofthe first day of proceedings to issues of a moreabstract, systematic nature, and theparticipants executed a ‘cultural turn’. Inparticular, it was the ‘why’ and ‘wherefore’ ofcultural transfer which now became the centraltopics of concern, encompassing the analysisof the processes underlying materialalterations in the transferred object. In thiscontext, one difficulty proved to beconceptually delimiting ‘transfer ’ and‘diffusion’. Is it meaningful to speak ofsuccessful transfer in cases where no diffusionfollows? How permanently embedded does aphenomenon have to become within a newcontext to count as a ‘succesful culturaltransfer’? Such questions gave rise to animateddebate. A further controversy that developedconcerned the proper relationship between thetwo components of the colloquium’s theme,‘migration and transfer’. Whereas many ofthose whose expertise lay in the 18th and 19th

centuries found it hard to conceive of transferin isolation from its personal basis, historiansof the 20th century identified the media andother disembodied mechanisms of transfer asbeing of at least equal importance.Thus stimulated, the participants have agreedthat, at the follow-up colloquium to take placein Greenwich in July 2004, the conceptualproblems underlying the study of culturaltransfer will form a central topic of discussion

and debate from the outset. The results of theBerlin colloquium are to be published soon.A more detailed report on the colloquiumproceedings, in which Frank Hatje (Hamburg)also discusses the individual papers presented,can be found at: http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-b e r l i n . d e / t a g u n g s b e r i c h t e /type=tagungsberichte&id=276&view=print.

The Year’s Activities

JanuaryGerhard Dannemann attended a conference atthe Academy of European Law, Trier, on“Consumer Protection and InformationRequirements in European Community Law”,and the first meeting of the European ResearchGroup on Existing EC Private Law (AcquisGroup).Christiane Eisenberg held a lecture at theUniversity of Münster entitled, „Von Englandin die Welt. Entstehung und Verbreitung desmodernen Fußballs“. She also participated ina Berlin Conference organised by the Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, “Moderne Dienstleistungs-arbeit. Mythos und Realität ”Rita Gerlach travelled to Magdeburg to attendthe Arbeitskreis Cultural Studies in den NeuenBundesländern-Meeting.Together with Prof. Dr. Volker Ackermann(Düsseldorf University) Christof Biggelebengave a talk on “Regional Economic Elites inComparison. Industry-Club Düsseldorf and theAssociation of Berlin Merchants andIndustrialists” at the Centre for ComparativeHistory of Europe, Freie Universität Berlin.Jürgen Schlaeger and Gesa Stedman wereinvited to the British Council’s WalberbergSeminar on Creative Writing/Creative Reading.It was chaired by the poet laureate AndrewMotion and attended by other prestigiouswriters such as Ali Smith, Patience Agbabi, JimCrace, John Burnside, Helen Dunmore and anumber of younger writers from creativewriting courses in Germany and the UK.Jürgen Schlaeger attended a dinner hosted bythe German Ambassador in London in honourof the 2002 Shakespeare-Prize winner, DameAntonia Byatt.


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Later that month, Jürgen Schlaeger visited theMercator Foundation and the Stifterverbandin Essen.

FebruaryThe Annual Board Meeting was held at theCentre on 10 February.Jürgen Schlaeger took part in the 1st FrankfurtConference of the German-British Forum.

MarchChristof Biggeleben and Rita Gerlach organisedthe 24th British-Berlin Seminar, which tookplace at the Centre from 10-12 March.Christiane Eisenberg took part in a workshopon “Bürgertum und Bürgerlichkeit zwischen1870 und 1930. Kontinuität und Wandel ”, atSchloss Landsberg near Essen and gave alecture on “Neue Geselligkeitsformen im 20.Jahrhundert ”. Subsequently she visited Zurichto proof the book “Le siécle du Football. FIFA1904-2004 ”, written with Pierre Lanfranchi,Tony Mason and Alfred Wahl.Gesa Stedman was invited to give a lecture atthe English Faculty of the University of Oxford,13 March 2003. She spoke on “‘The study ofthe stomach is really the study of morality’:Victorian Affections”. She then spent a monthfunded by the German Historical Institute inLondon, working on her current researchproject on Anglo-French cultural relations inthe 17th century. She presented her work atthe GHI and spoke on “Channel Crossings:Henrietta Maria und die englisch-französischenBeziehungen im 17. Jahrhundert” on 18 March2003.Christian W. Handke completed his work forthe Association of Independent Phonogramproducers.Jürgen Schlaeger was invited to attend theWelcome Party for the new director of theBritish Council, Kathryn Board.

AprilGerhard Dannemann gave an interview toDeutschlandradio Berlin on the role of theBritish monarchy.Graduates of the Centre’s third intake ofstudents celebrated the successful completionof their Master’s course, an occasion marked

by a public lecture given by Professor ValentineCunningham from Oxford University and adrinks reception.Gesa Stedman was invited to give a lecture atthe annual conference of the GermanShakespeare Society in Bochum. Her paper wasentitled: “‘The noblest comment on the humanheart’: Shakespeare and the Theories ofEmotion”.Rita Gerlach, Christiane Eisenberg and JürgenSchlaeger attended the Dortmund Conference“Kulturwissenschaften in der Anglistik - EineStandortbestimmung”. Rita Gerlach spoke onthe panel on “Interdisciplinarity” andChristiane Eisenberg presented the Centre’sresearch project.

MaySir Paul Lever, British Ambassador to Germany,retired after five and a half years in office.

Gesa Stedman was invited to have lunch withthe regional director of the British Council,Martin Davidson, the new director of theBritish Council Germany, Kate Board, and anumber of other younger partners of theBritish Council in Berlin.Jürgen Schlaeger was a member of thecommittee that evaluated the research of allEnglish Departments in Lower Saxony.


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The Centre hosted a dinner in honour of SirNeil Chalmers, Director of the Natural HistoryMuseum in London.Christiane Eisenberg attended the annualmeeting of the Abeitskreis deutscheEnglandforschung on the theme „PoliticalRitual in the UK, 1700-2000“ and chaired thesession on „Ritual and Popular Politics“.

JuneChristiane Eisenberg gave a lecture at theUniversity of Bielefeld on „Möglichkeiten undGrenzen der Konsumgeschichte: das Beispieldes Sportkonsums“.As part of the Monday Lecture Series “Centreor Margin? The Celtic Fringe” Gesa Stedmanchaired a reading by the Scottish writer AliSmith, which was jointly organised with theBritish Council where the reading also tookplace.Gesa Stedman travelled to Rostock to attendthe meeting of the “Arbeitskreis CulturalStudies in den Neuen Bundesländern”, whereshe gave a short paper on interculturalteaching problems.Gerhard Dannemann attended a workshop inDüsseldorf on issues in comparative law andlegal history.Jürgen Schlaeger continued as a member ofthe committee evaluating the teaching of allEnglish Departments in Lower Saxony.Jürgen Schlaeger also participated in theEvangelische Akademie Loccum.

JulyGerhard Dannemann gave a paper on“Praktischer Nutzen der Rechtsvergleichung?Zum zunehmenden Einsatz der Komparatistikdurch englische Richter” at a conference on“Geschichte der Rechtsvergleichung”,organised by the International Max PlanckResearch School for Comparative LegalHistory, held at Oberwesel a.Rh.Christof Biggeleben gave a paper on “Family,Board, and Club. Networks of Economic Elites.Examples from Berlin and London” at theInstitute for Anthropology, Freie UniversitätBerlin.Jürgen Schlaeger took part in a Conferenceon Englishness at the University of Central

England in Birmingham.

AugustMarc Stauch acted as a referee for the OxfordUniversity Commonwealth Law Journal.

SeptemberGerhard Dannemann and Marc Stauchattended the annual conference of the Societyof Legal Scholars, held at Oxford.Jürgen Schlaeger spent three weeks in Oxforddoing research on modern London literature.Gerhard Dannemann welcomed a group ofBritish legal scholars on a study tour toGermany, organised by the German AcademicExchange Service, and acted as panellist in adiscussion session on “The future of British-German legal academic exchange”.Christof Biggeleben took part in the panel “TheGerman Economic Elite in the 20th Century”at the German Studies Conference, NewOrleans/USA and gave a paper on “TheAssociation of Berlin Merchants andIndustrialists (1879-1945)”.Gesa Stedman co-hosted an internationalconference on “Symbolic and Actual Spaces ofCultural Transfer” at the Centre for FrenchStudies at the Technische Universität, Berlin.Christian W. Handke participated in the “FirstEuropean Workshop on Applied CulturalEconomics” in San Leo, Italy.

OctoberChristof Biggeleben talked on “Industrialists,Merchants and Bankers. The New Wealth inBerlin (1871-1914)” at the conference “Villa inSuburbia. Bourgeois Housing and Livingforms in the 19th and early 20th century. AComparison between Berlin and Other Cities”,at the Technische Universität, Berlin.Gesa Stedman was invited to a conference onlate medieval and early modern rhetoric at theHerzog-August-Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttelwhere she gave a paper on “Two Versions ofAntony and Cleopatra: Passion, Duty andDeath”.Christian W. Handke participated in theconference of the Institut fürAuslandsbeziehungen on “Europe – A Unionof Culture? Foreign Cultural Policy in the


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Media Contributions

Prof. Eisenberg was interviewed by RadioKiepenkerl, Münster in January on the historyof English soccer. The BBC, BBC World as wellas the German radio stations ORF/WDR invitedher to comment on the occasion of the 50th

anniversary of the German victory in the Worldchampionship in soccer in 1954. Lastly, on 19November 2003 Prof. Eisenberg answered thequestion “Why do soccer matches take 90minutes?” for the Berlin radio station 100,6.Prof. Dannemann gave an interview toDeutschlandradio Berlin on the role of theBritish monarchy in April and in November he

Jürgen Schlaeger travelled to Hamburg toattend the Board meeting and the prize-winning ceremony. He also visited the BritishSchool in Berlin.

NovemberJürgen Schlaeger, Gesa Stedman and RitaGerlach attended the 14th Cultural StudiesConference at the University of Leipzig, whereRita Gerlach presented her doctoral work atthe postgraduate forum.Jürgen Schlaeger participated in a prize-givingceremony at the Mercator-Foundation inDuisburg.

DecemberGerhard Dannemann was invited to give alecture on “Martin Wolff – Emigration undWirken im Exil” at the University of Potsdam,as part of a lecture series on “ZwischenRechtsstaat und Diktatur. Deutsche Juristen im20. Jahrhundert”.Gesa Stedman was invited to give a paper onAnglo-French cultural exchange in the 17thCentre for French Studies at the TechnischeUniversität Berlin.Jürgen Schlaeger took part in the AnnualConference of the Spanish Association ofUniversity Professors of English in Salamanca.

gave a live interview to the TV news channelN24 on the likely impact of the Istanbulbombings on British politics.Prof. Schlaeger appeared on television tocomment on David Beckham’s OBE, on PrinceHarry ’s education and on the students’protests in Berlin.

Public Lectures

20 January 2003Prof. Dr. Günter Lottes

Institut für Europäische Aufklärung, Potsdam“Großbritannien als Modell der Moderne im18. und 19. Jahrhundert”In his lecture Professor Lottes analysed theBritish socio-political model and how itdeveloped out of the Glorious Revolution, theanti-absolutist tradition, property rights,individualism and the idea of the “freebornEnglishman”. Professor Lottes went on todiscuss the specific biases of perception aboutBritain on the European continent, particularlyin German-speaking countries, and the resultsof generalising from the British example. Inparticular he examined 18th and 19th-centuryefforts by Hegel, Dahlmann and otherintellectuals to stylize Britain as a model of“organic growth”.Professor Dr. Günther Lottes is the Director ofthe Forschungszentrum EuropäischeAufklärung, University of Potsdam.

3 February 2003Dr. Bernd Becker

“Politik in Großbritannien – Einführung in daspolitische System und Bilanz der erstenRegierungsjahre Tony Blairs“In cooperation with the publisher Schöninghthe Centre invited Dr. Bernd Becker to presenthis brand new book on “Politik inGroßbritannien – Einführung in das politischeSystem und Bilanz der ersten RegierungsjahreTony Blairs”. Bernd Becker, who is also a guestlecturer at the Centre, presented an excitingand interesting insight into the workings ofNo 10 Downing Street as well as the currentpolitical situation in Britain. In his book he

Enlarged European Union”, Berlin.As a member of the Shakespeare-Prize Jury,


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drew upon his practical experience of No 10 -the inner sanctum of British Politics - wherehe was the first ever German to work.

14 April 2003Prof. Valentine Cunningham

Oxford University“Getting to the Bottom of it, Or having a Clueabout Literature”

New research and personal insights,information and demystification werepresented in a most entertaining manner.Christopher Harvie is Professor of British andIrish Studies at Tübingen University. He madehimself the leading historian of twentieth-century Scotland with two classic works:Scotland and Nationalism (1977, 3rd edn,2000) and No Gods and Precious Few Heroes:Twentieth Century Scotland (1981, 3rd edn,2000).

11 June 2003Ali Smith

British Literature Live (at the British CouncilBerlin)The Scottish writer Ali Smith read excerpts fromher second novel Hotel World (2001) withwhich she was nominated for both the OrangePrize and the Booker Prize. Hotel World tellsthe stories of five protagonists, four womenand the ghost of chambermaid Sarah who diedmysteriously in an accident. In addition, AliSmith read several short stories from herrecent collections. The latest one entitled TheWhole Story and Other Stories was publishedin April.

16 June 2003Dr. Stefan Wolff

University of Bath“Peace at Last? The Future of the Good FridayAgreement on Northern Ireland”You have to be Irish to really understand theconflict in Northern Ireland. The armedhostilities between Catholics and Protestantsis regularly in the evening news; the historicaland political background, however, is hardly

Valentine Cunningham, professor of EnglishLiterature at Oxford, literary prize judge,broadcaster and critic gave a lecture on“Getting to the Bottom of it, Or having a Clueabout Literature”. In his tour d’horizon of therelationship between texts and textiles, hewove a clever web of allusions, beginning withthe famous Ariadne myth and ending with anew take on Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’sDream and the multiple meanings of Bottomthe Weaver.

5 May 2003Prof. Christopher Harvie

Universität Tübingen“Reflections on Four Years of Devolution: ‘Wemust change everything, in order thateverything remains the same.’ (Lampedusa,The Leopard)”After the 1 May Elections in Scotland, Walesand Northern Ireland, has it?”On the occasion of the 2003 nationalparliamentary elections Professor Harvie gavean overview of the state of devolution inScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Heanalysed the behaviour of the voters, placingit within an historical and cultural context.


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comprehensible to the mind of an ordinaryCentral European citizen. Stefan Wolff ’slecture cast light into the darkness. In it heput special emphasis on political developmentsand difficulties arising from the Good FridayAgreement of 1998, which constitutes thebasis for an often threatened but so farenduring peace process in Northern Ireland.

23 June 2003Prof. Dr. Helmut Weber

“Suppressed Nation or Profiting from theUnion? Scotland’s Role in the UnitedKingdom”More than 300 years ago Scotland and Englanddecided to form a union and thus the newstate Great Britain. This union was voluntaryand based on a formal contract between thetwo countries. Today, however, critical voicesboth in Scotland and in England advocatedissolving this union. Prof. Weber analysed therelationship between Bravehearts andSassenachs, as the English are snidely calledby the Scots from time to time. Havingdescribed the motives for the historic unionof 1707, Prof. Weber analysed whether thisunion had stood the test of time. At the heartof his lecture lay the question concerning therole of Scotland, the junior partner in theunion.

1 July 2003Prof. Dr. Gerhard Dannemann

Centre for British Studies, Berlin“A Comparative Lawyer in Exile: Martin Wolffand his Influence on English Law”In his Inaugural Lecture Prof. Dannemanntalked about the comparative lawyer MartinWolff (1872-1953) who taught at Humboldt-University until he was removed from his chairunder the National Socialist regime. Wolffranks amongst the most famous legal scholarsof his age. Prof. Dannemann gave an accountof Wolff ’s emigration to England andevaluated the influence which Wolff ’s workexerted on the development of English law.His lecture ended with reflections on whatGerman lawyers today could learn fromEnglish law.

17 November 2003Prof. Dr. Ansgar Nünning

Universität Giessen“The Invention of an Empress: QueenVictoria’s Golden and Diamond Jubilees asParadigms for theStudy of VictorianM e m o r i a lCultures”The 50th anni-versary of thecoronation ofQueen ElizabethII in 2002 provedthat such cele-brations are notonly transnat-ional mediaevents, but also“sites” of collective memory. In his lecture Prof.Nünning aimed to answer the ques-tion howtextual as well as media representations ofQueen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee (1887) andDia-mond Jublilee (1897) contri-buted to thecon-struction of a new image of Queen Victoriaas an Empress and how it led to theconstruction of British collective identity asan imperial nation.Prof. Nünning is the editor and author of manystandard works in the fields of literature andculture.

1 December 2003Prof. Dr. Heinz Reif

Technische Universität Berlin“Geschichtskultur und Histo -Schick.Industriegeschichte in altindustriellenStädteregionen.Das Ruhrgebietund Nordost-england 1970-2000”For many decadesthe industrialregions of west-ern Europe havesuffered in thedowndraught ofa global processof de industrial-


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isation. Both the economic power and thepopulations of industrial cities are shrinking.However, this does not mean that these citiesof heavy industry disappear from the scenery;quite the opposite: they take on the challengeof structural change and counter it by adaptingto new structures. Prof. Reif showed thathistory plays an important role in this processof “working towards a new future” andcreating a “new self-image”.In comparing the German town Oberhausento its British partner-city Middlesbrough Prof.Reif demonstrated that architectural as wellas narrative historical traditions should notbe underestimated as formative factors.Prof. Dr. Heinz Reif teaches Modern History atthe Technische Universität Berlin.

10 December 2003Robert Minhinnick and John Hartley

Will iams

“Dylan Thomas Fifty Years On: A Celebration”Poetry Reading and Launch of the AnniversaryIssue of Poetry WalesTwo leading current British poets read fromthe work of a twentieth century lyrical genius,the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, who died fiftyyears ago in New York. They read poems,stories, an extract from his play Under MilkWood and answered questions from theaudience. The evening was rounded off witha reception.

10 December 2003Dr. Stefano-Maria Evangelista

University of Bristol“Tea with Ganymede: English Literature andthe Classics”The study of the classics, traditionally carriedout in England in the public schools andOxbridge, is mostly seen as the domain ofconservative forces intent to propagate elitismand reactionary values. Dr. Evangelista’slecture questioned this assumption. Lookingat literary examples from the Victorian era tothe First World War, he showed that a numberof prominent writers, from Virginia Woolf toE. M. Forster, A. C. Swinburne and Oscar Wilde,found in the ancient world the inspiration toattack conventional aesthetics and morality,and to formulate cultural and social criticism.

Guests at the Centre

Dr. Bernd Becker

BonnDr. Bernd Becker is a political consultant andfreelance journalist. Before he set up his ownconsultancy he worked in the GermanChancellery, where he was co-ordinator of theGerman-British working group which wrotethe Schröder-Blair document on the “ThirdWay”. He was also the first German ever towork in No 10 Downing Street and has recentlypublished a book on Politik in Großbritannien.Eine Einführung in das politische System undeine Bilanz der ersten Regierungsjahre TonyBlairs.

David Bowskill

Humboldt University, BerlinDavid Bowskill teaches English for academic,legal and professional purposes to the M.B.S.students. He is a lecturer in English forAcademic Purposes and English Law at theLanguage Centre of Humboldt University. Agraduate of the University of Newcastle UponTyne in 1982, he completed his teachertraining at Huddersfield Polytechnic receivinga Graduate Certificate in Education (Universityof Leeds Collegiate Award - 1983). Additionallyhe obtained a Postgraduate Diploma inTeaching English to Speakers of OtherLanguages (Sheffield City Polytechnic - 1990),and a Licentiate Diploma in Teaching Englishas a Foreign/Second Language (Trinity CollegeLondon - 1989).

Marijke Brouwer

The British CouncilMarijke Brouwer, a qualified translator, studiedEnglish and French at the University ofCologne. She joined the British Council in1984 and has been responsible for Literatureactivities since 1993 and British Studies since2000. On the M.B.S. course, Marijke Brouwertaught two lessons in the course The LiteraryField in the UK during which she offered thestudents insights into practical aspects of thework the British Council does with authors.


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Dr. Paul Carmichael

University of UlsterDr. Paul Carmichael is Senior Lecturer at theSchool of Policy Studies, University of Ulster,Jordanstown Campus. His main teaching andresearch interests are the British government,politics and public administration, devolution,and local government and civil service.His publications include several books andarticles on these subjects, in particular on theHouse of Lords, on Northern Ireland and ondevolution. He has been involved in the M.B.S.teaching programme from the beginning withteaching units on devolution, regional andlocal government.

Prof. Valentine Cunningham

University of OxfordProf. Valentine Cunningham is a fellow ofCorpus Christi College, Oxford, where he alsoholds a Professorship of English Language andLiterature at the University. He reviews widelyfor various British and American journals andnewspapers including The Observer, andbroadcasts regularly for the BBC. He was ajudge for the Booker Prize in 1992 and 1998and he served twice as Eurasia Chair for theCommonwealth Writers’ Prize (2000, 2001).His most recent book is Reading After Theory(2001). On this year’s M.B.S. programmeValentine Cunningham shared with thestudents his experience of judging literaryprizes in the course The Literary Field in theUK: Making, Reading and Selling Books.

Andrew Elliot

Northern Ireland Parades CommissionAndrew Elliot, who teaches EconomicGeography on the Centre’s M.B.S. programme,is the Secretary to the Northern Ireland ParadesCommission. He holds an honours degree inAgricultural Science from the Queen’sUniversity of Belfast, which he attendedbetween 1982 and 1986. He worked for muchof his time in the Civil Service in theDepartment of Economic Development, whichis responsible for regulating and developingthe economy of Northern Ireland.

Prof. Dr. Peter Drexler

University of PotsdamPeter Drexler has been teaching BritishCultural Studies as well as Media Studies atthe University of Potsdam since 1995. Hismain research and teaching interests are:Victorian Studies, 20th-century Englishliterature, crime fiction, the history of Britishand German film, film theory and themethodology of film analysis. Peter Drexlerwrote his doctoral thesis on T.S. Eliot and hissecond book (“Habilitation”) on 19th-centuryBritish crime fiction. Peter Drexler has beenteaching film as part of the M.B.S. course forseveral years.

Dr. Andrew Feist

City University/Home OfficeThis was the fourth year that Dr. Feist hastaught a seminar on the management ofculture, a subject in which he has bothacademic and practical expertise. Andrew Feistworks in the Home Office and he also teachescultural policy in the Department of Arts Policyand Management at City University in London,Europe’s largest interdisciplinary centre forarts, museums and heritage policy. Beforejoining City University Andrew spent someyears working at the Arts Council.

PD Dr. Jörg Helbig

University of CologneJörg Helbig is Lecturer in Literary and CulturalStudies at the University of Cologne. He haspublished widely on English literature, literarytheory and British cinema, including amonograph on intertextuality and markedness(Heidelberg: Winter, 1996), a history of Britishcinema (Stuttgart: Metzler, 1999) and achronicle of British cinema (Trier: WVT, 2000).He is editor of Intermedialität (Berlin: ErichSchmidt, 1998) and Erzählen undErzähltheorie im 20. Jahrhundert (Heidelberg:Winter, 2001) and co-editor of The SixtiesRevisited (Heidelberg: Winter, 2001) andShakespeare in the Media: From the GlobeTheatre to the World Wide Web (Frankfurt:Peter Lang, 2003). Currently, he is working on


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a book on British culture in the 1960s and ona study of unreliable narration in film.

Thomas Hüsken M.A.

Freie Universität BerlinThomas Hüsken studied Economics and SocialAnthropology at the Freie Universität Berlinwhere he is currently lecturer at the Institutefor Social Anthropology. He has specialised intranscultural management and has finished hisPhD on “Der Stamm der Experten: Chancenund Probleme der interkulturellen Kommuni-kation und des interkulturellen Managementsin Projekten der deutschen Entwicklungszu-sammenarbeit - Fallbeispiele aus Ägypten unddem Jemen” this year. Together with OlinRoenpage and Christof Biggeleben he set upthe workshop on transcultrual managementand transcultural communication.

Dr. Hugh Mackay

The Open UniversityDr. Mackay is senior lecturer and staff tutor atThe Open University in Wales. He is asociologist of technology with an interest intechnology and culture and in conceptualisingthe relationship between the technical and thesocial, between physical artefacts and socialand cultural change. His specialism is newmedia technologies. In May, Dr. Mackay visitedBerlin and taught Media in the UK on theCentre’s M.B.S. programme.

Dr Gerry Mooney

The Open University in Scotland, EdinburghDr. Gerry Mooney also belongs to the Centre’s‘core’ guest lecturers. In the programme he isresponsible for the teaching unit “SocialStratification”. Gerry Mooney is staff tutor atThe Open University in Scotland. His maininterests are in the field of contemporary socialpolicy, in particular New Labour’s policies withregard to poverty and social exclusion, andthe urban policies of the new Scottishparliament. He also has a longstanding interestin patterns of socio-spatial segregation in thecity, and in particular the impact of povertyand residualization in local authority housingestates. The Centre is indebted to him for allhis help with organising internship placements

at various institutions and also for lookingafter the students and generally making themfeel welcome in Scotland.

Lynn Parkinson, BA (Hons), M.Phil,

MCIM, MTS

Lynn Parkinson is a marketing and salesmanagement specialist with extensiveexperience of management teaching atundergraduate, postgraduate and post-experience levels. She has taught in the UK,continental Europe (including central andeastern European countries), the Middle Eastand the Caribbean, and has worked withstudents from different cultural andprofessional backgrounds. She is currentlyworking with the University of Leeds BusinessSchool, University of Warwick Business School,and City University Business School. Lynn haspublished widely in academic journals andbooks, and with Financial Times Education.She has worked with many internationalcompanies, such as Mars, Philip Morris,Hewlett Packard, IBM, as well as the UKGovernment, the Post Office, and the BBC.

Martin Reitzig MBA

Berlin/LondonIn Martin Reitzig the Centre has been able toattract a young media entrepreneur to teachthe latest developments in the British mediascene. He studied Business Administration andEconomics in Hanover and graduated with aMaster in International Business andManagement at the University of Westminster,London. He is co-founder of the media andmarketing company Stuntwood PublishingLtd, which was the licensee publisher of thelifestyle magazine “Lodown”. In Summer 2000,he ventured further into digital spheres withthe foundation of the LDWN Media Group Ltd.In 2003 Martin Reitzig taught the M.B.S.students how to develop a business idea, towrite the necessary business plan and to runa company in a British environment (legal andadministrative framework). He also supervisedthe development of the student project“Hidden Britain”.


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Dr. Pikay Richardson BA, MSc, PhD, MIEE

Manchester Business SchoolPikay Richardson is Fellow in Economics anddirector of the India Research andDevelopment Unit at Manchester BusinessSchool. After graduating in electricalengineering in 1976, he spent two years as abroadcast engineer in Ghana before joiningthe BBC’s Engineering Training Centre, wherehe specialised in colour television systems.This was followed by a spell of studio work inthe BBC’s television centres in Birmingham andCardiff. 1981 Dr. Richardson took a five yearcontract appointment with the FederalGovernment of Nigeria to lecture in theDepartment of Electrical Engineering. In 1985,he joined UMIST ’s Department ofManagement Sciences where he studiedbusiness economics, finishing with a PhD in1989. Dr Richardson has designed and directedmany post-experience executive coursesincluding the Midland Bank EMP, the School’sSenior Executive Course and the India RailwaysSMP. He also organises live consultancyprojects. With Professor Tudor Richards, heinitiated the establishment of the IndiaResearch and Development Unit, of which heis the director.

Dr. Elke Ritt

British Council BerlinDr. Elke Ritt is Head of Arts and CreativeIndustries at the British Council in Berlin. Shestudied English, German and Mathematics,and holds a Master of Arts in Victorian Studiesand a PhD from Munich University incomparative literature. Dr. Ritt joined theBritish Council in 1993, when she wasappointed Head of Arts at the British Councilin Cologne and is presently in charge of theBritish Council’s work in the Arts, CreativeIndustries, Sports and Society in Germany. Dr.Ritt taught Cultural Management in the M.B.S.programme.

Olin Roenpage M.A.

Berlin/FrankfurtOlin Roenpage is partner of UMS Consultingin Frankfurt/Main. Before he joined UMS in1997 he studied Economics and Social

Anthropology at the Freie Universität Berlin.In his business his main interest lies in qualitymanagement; because of his internationalexperiences and university background he hasalso gained expertise in transculturalmanagement, which he teaches together withChristof Biggeleben and Thomas Hüsken onthe M.B.S. course.

Ali Smith

Author, Cambridge

The Scottish writer Ali Smith was born in 1962in Inverness. She studied English Literaturein Aberdeen and Cambridge. Ali Smith startedher career with publishing selected shortstories Free Love an Other Stories in 1995;the collection Other Stories and Other Storiesfollowed in 1999. Her first novel Like waspublished in 1997 and with her second novelHotel World (2001) she was nominated for theOrange Prize and for the Booker Prize. Smithwrites regularly for newspapers and journals,including The Scotsman and Times LiterarySupplement. She lives in Cambridge. TheCentre’s students had the chance to practisecreative writing in a workshop with Ali Smith.

James Woodall

Author/Journalist, Berlin

James Woodall taught “Contemporary Britain”on the M.B.S. course in 2003. He attendedChrist Church, Oxford, from 1979-82, wherehe read English. From 1983-4, he taught inLondon, then lived in Paris for a year. Fromthere he wrote his first articles for the Britishliterary magazine PN Review. From 1986 to1991 he worked as a full-time editor. Since1991, he has worked as a freelance writer, andhas contributed to most of the major Britishbroadsheet newspapers. From 1995-8, hedevised and broadcast features for BBC Radios3 and 4, and for the BBC World Service. JamesWoodall now lives in Berlin, where hecontinues to write regularly on the arts forthe Financial Times and has published a bookon “John Lennon und Yoko Ono - zweiRebellen, eine Poplegende”.

Board of Trustees

Chairman

Sir Christopher Mallaby GCMG, GCVO

Ambassador to Germany 1988-1992

Kate Board

Director

British Council Germany

Ulrich Hoppe

Director General

German-British Chamber of Industry and Commerce

Graham Jefcoate MA, FRSA, MCLIP

Peter Knoedel

Vorstand

Deutsche BP AG

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The University of Birmingham

Director of the Institute for German Studies

The Rt. Hon. The Lord Giles Radice

House of Lords

Christian Schmidt MdB

Chairman British- German Parliamentarian Group

Professor Dr. Gerd Stratmann

Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Englisches Seminar

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Burson-Marsteller Europe

Stiftung Mercator GmbH


The British Council

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Broken EnglishOptik Streier

The Centre and the students would like to thank

for their generous support of the student project “Hidden Britain” in June 2003.

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