Program


July 3 takes place in the Klangwerkstatt im Humboldt Forum (sound workshop), July 4-5 take place in Saal 3 of the Humboldt Forum.  The program is still subject to change. Updates will appear here.

July 3 Wednesday 

Venue: Klangwerkstatt im Humboldt Forum (sound workshop); Querriegel, Etage 1,5

Panel 1: Cultural Politics in the Divided City of Berlin

Meeting point: Schlüterhof in front of the shop, Humboldt Forum

11:00 am - 1:30 pm - Registration 

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm - Sessions 1: Cultural Politics, pt.1

Chair: Dörte Schmidt, Universität der Künste Berlin

1:30 - 1:50 pm - Dörte Schmidt, Universität der Künste Berlin. Berlin as the "Showcase of the Free World"? Culture, Economy and the Competition for Internationality during the Cold War 

1:50 - 2:10 pm -  Christiane Sibille, ETH Zürich. Music in a changing world. Perspectives on the institutional networks of the International Music Council during the Cold War

2:10 - 2:30 pm - Harm Langenkamp, Amsterdam University of the Arts. Whose Island of Freedom? Conception and Reception of the Ford Foundation’s Investments in West-Berlin’s Musico-Cultural Infrastructure, 1961-1966 

2:30 pm - 2:45 pm - Short break

2:45 pm - 3:30 pm - Discussion with all panelists. Respondent: Kira Álvarez, Freie Universität Berlin. 

3:30 pm - 4:10 pm - Coffee Break 

4:10 pm - 6:00 pm - Session 2: Cultural Politics, pt.2

Chair: Dörte Schmidt, Universität der Künste Berlin

4:10 - 4:30 pm - Nazan Maksudyan, Centre Marc Bloch Berlin. Decolonization of Migration in Divided Berlin: Berliner Künstlerprogramm and Artistic Representations of Migrant Subjectivities in the 1970s 

4:30 - 4:50 pm - Thomas MacMillan, Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung. The Rise and Fall of Popular Music in the Berliner Philharmonie between 1963-1990 

4:40 - 5:10 pm - Short break

5:10 - 6:00 pm - Discussion with all panelists. Respondent: Kira Álvarez, Freie Universität Berlin. 

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm - Break

7:00 - 8:30 pm Roundtable 1: Ethnomusicology and Music in East and West Berlin between 1963 and 1996 (Gespräche mit Zeitzeugen, session will be held in English)

Moderation: Giovani Giuriati, University of Rome / Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice

Guests


(*) The Round table session will be audiovisually recorded will be archived in the Ethnologisches Museum.

8:30 pm - Dinner for active participants

July 4 Thursday

venue: Saal 3 im Humboldt Forum

Workshops

9 am - 12.30 pm - Workshops (for location see workshop description)

12:30 am - 1:30 pm Lunch Break 

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm - Plenary Session: Workshop Presentations

Chair: Maurice Mengel

1:30 pm - 1:45 pm Workshop 1: Lautarchiv
1:45 pm - 2:00 pm Workshop 2: Dahlem
2:00 pm - 2:15 pm Workshop 3: SIM
2:15 pm - 2:30 pm Workshop 5: Dance

Panel 2: Festivals, Concerts and other Performances in the two Berlins

2:30 pm - 4:00 pm - Session 3 : Festivals, pt.1

Chair: Giovanni Giuriati, Cini Fundazzione

2:30 pm - 2:50 pm - Linda Cimardi, Universität Halle. The IICMSD and live music from Asia in West Berlin: international networks, cosmopolitan aspirations and Cold War intersections.

2:50 pm - 3:10 pm - Dorit M. Klebe. Three Choirs founded 1973 in East/West Berlin which performed in West- and East Berlin (1973–1981). 

3:10 pm - 3:30 pm - Short Break

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm - Discussion with Panelists

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm - Coffee Break 

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm - Session 4: Festivals, pt.2 (this session will be in German)

Chair: Lars Koch, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz / Stiftung Humboldt Forum

4:30 pm - 4:50 pm - Dennis Hopp. “Changing the System”:  Das Metamusik-Festival 1974 in Berlin.

4:50 pm - 5:10 pm - Shin-Hyang Yun. Berliner Schaffensorte des Exilkomponisten Isang Yun und Ethnografie einer unsichtbaren Mauer. 

5:10 pm - 5:30 pm - Short break

5:30 pm - 6:00 pm - Discussion with panelists

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Break

7:00 pm - 8:30 pm - Roundtable 2: Neuordnung nach der Wende? (this session will be in German)

Gespräche mit Zeitzeugen (auf Deutsch)

Moderation: Dörte Schmidt

Gäste

(*) Zeitzeugengespräche werden mitgeschnitten und im Ethnologischen Museum archiviert.


July 5 Friday

venue: Saal 3 im Humboldt Forum

Panel 3: Music Collections Between East and West Berlin - People and Places

9:30 am - 11:30 am - Session 5: Music Collections, pt. 1

Chair: Rebecca Wolf, Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung

9.30 am - 9.50 am - Christina Dörfling, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Tape Culture and Popular Music Studies (East). Collecting practices and DIY-archiving at HU Berlin  

9.50 am -  10.10 am - Sydney Hutchinson, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Cooperating over the Wall: Kurt Reinhard, Erich Stockmann, and the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv in the Cold War 

10.10 am - 10.30 am - Susanne Ziegler, Berlin. Ethnomusicology in Berlin around 1989 – meeting point of East and West 

10.30 am - 10.45 am - Short break 

10.45 am - 11:20 am - Discussion with all panelists

11:30 am - 12:30 pm - Keynote

Phil Bohlman. Vergessen und Vergessen und Vergessen – Counterhistories of Memory and Loss, East and West 

12:30 am - 1:30 pm Lunch Break

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm - Session 6: Music collections, pt.2

Chair: Sebastian Klotz, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

1:30 pm - 1:50 pm - Kanav Gupta, King’s College London. The Dāgar-Daniélou Files: Examining the Tedium of Hindustani Music’s “Global Cultural Flows”,  c.1965–c.1980 

1:50 pm - 2:10 pm - Francesca Cassio, Hofstra University New York . The Dhrupad Collections at the Ethnologisches Museum of Berlin: an Archive Bridging Past and Present, East and West

2:10 pm - 2:25 pm - Short break

2:25 pm - 3:30 pm - Discussion with all panelists

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm - Coffee Break

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm - Tour of special exhibition "Blown Away: The Palace of the Republic" 

venue: Special exhibit, entrance from Foyer (Sonderausstellung EG), Humboldt Forum

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm - Break

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm - Concert "Living Traditions" (Link)

venue: Saal 3, Humboldt Forum