International Cultural Relations and Diversity

How is diversity lived in and through international cultural institutions? What are cultural policy strategies for creating a diversity of relationships despite economic, political, and administrative boundaries and limitations?

This seminar will focus on cultural exchange programs and formats in the Berlin-Brandenburg region as well as in the city of Hamburg. It will discuss how cultural institutions create and live relationships in an international context. What are actions, themes, and organizational forms in and within an internationally diverse context?

The plan is to visit institutions in the region to gain a better understanding of how international cultural relations are lived and organized. Guests working and living in international cultural networks will also be invited. In this seminar, a selection of ethnographic methods such as interviews, participant observation or mapping will be practiced and applied, for example to prepare visits, stimulate discussions or for documentation.
Depending on the students' subject area, the following locations can be visited: KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Gangway Straßensozialarbeit in Berlin e.V., Atlantik-Brücke e.V und andere.

Seminar is held in English!
Seminar with 4 SWS: 2 SWS Attendance / 2 SWS Independent Study

Contact: Dr. phil. Kerstin Niemann,
kerstin.niemann@fh-potsdam.de, consultations hours by appointment

Location: House A, Room 003  => A/003

The seminar can also be credited in M21.7 “International Studies” (old StudPO) and Flex07: Foreign Languages.

Registration (Limitation of 20 stund): kerstin.niemann@fh-potsdam.de

Exam/Seminar performances: Active Participation, documentation, mappings, interviews, field trips to Berlin and possibly Hamburg, 6 ECTS, graded.


Semester: WiSe 2024/25