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Wandering the city by foot helps us look beneath ordinary conceptions of the face value of a place to the meanings built up and lost over time.
What’s the proper way to behave at a Holocaust memorial? Is that even the right question?
Both Berlin and Johannesburg are at the centre of their respective countries’ night cultures. Both cities have undergone fundamental social transitions since 1990.
The Berlin terror attack at the end of 2016 will have major political implications for Germany’s elections this year and an uneasy European Union, writes a German studies scholar.
The high profile attack will polarise an already strained political debate in Germany.
On the same day that London’s legendary Fabric closed permanently, Berlin’s infamous techno club Berghain was granted a tax break.
Past research suggests governing parties often take a hit in mid-term regional votes before recovering in national contests.
Art events should encourage us to spark new thinking outside of our cloistered world, but Berlin risks being lost in technological navel gazing.
Is Berlin’s underground scene in danger of going to the wall?
Bowie’s life has been under the microscope since he burst on the scene in 1969 with the smash hit, Space Oddity. We examine how the divided city of Berlin saved this extraordinary artist at his lowest ebb.
Having all your green in one place or not has been taxing urban planners for some time.
Some 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall – on November 9 1989 – Berlin is a utopia for many people. In otherwise precarious and uncertain lives, Berlin holds out the hope of pursuing creative work…
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Assistant Professor of Cultural Sociology, University of Groningen
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Historian, Institute of Contemporary History Munich - Berlin
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Lecturer, Management Discipline Group, University of Technology Sydney
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Emeritus Professor of Ecology, University of Salford
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Professor in Urban Design, UCL
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Scholar in Media and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University
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Professor of Politics, University of Sussex
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Senior Lecturer in Tourism and International Development, Leeds Beckett University
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Senior Lecturer in Journalism, Monash University
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Professor Spatial Transformation, Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen
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Global Studies Associate Fellow, University of Sussex
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Associate Professor of History, Case Western Reserve University
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Post-doctoral Fellow NRF Chair: Local Histories, Present Realities, University of the Witwatersrand
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Lecturer in Strategy; Researcher in Aviation, Trinity College Dublin
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Assistant Professor of German and Global Studies, Michigan State University