“traveling in the liberal arts tradition: berlin, leipzig, warsaw, and st. petersburg” may 11...

“Traveling in the Liberal Arts Tradition: Berlin, Leipzig, Warsaw,

and St. Petersburg”

May 11 – 31, 2004

Informational Meeting: December 10, 2003

“Scientific/Historical Traveling”; “Traveling with the Atom”; The “Alumni College” Website

The Hotel Bogota just off the

Kurfurstendamm (Ku’damm) strasse

Dr Ensberg and Dr. Rodgers, May 2003

The Quadriga atop the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin

The Home of Fritz and Clara Haber at the former Kaiser Wilhelm Institute

The Building Boom in Berlin

The Youth Hostel in Leipzig

The Old City Hall in Leipzig

The Wilhelm Ostwald “Energy House” in the little village of Grossbothen

Dr. Rodgers in the Clemens Winkler Laboratory/Museum

The Memorial to Clemens Winkler in Freibeg, the Silver City of Saxony

Dr. and Mrs. Moskwa near the old towne in Warsaw

The Frederic Chopin Monument in Lazienski Park near the Moskwa’s apartment in Warsaw

The Monument to the Jewish Ghetto Heroes in Warsaw

“The Castle on the Water”, Lizienski Park in Warsaw.

The home of the last king of Poland, Stanislaw August Poniatowski

The Wilanow Castle in Warsaw

A Statue of Marie Sklodowska-Curie at the Cancer Centre and Institute of Oncology founded by Marie and her sister Bronya

Dr. Rodgers and Dr. Moskwa in Frombork where Copernicus lived until his death in 1543.

The Youth Hostel in St. Petersburg

At the Youth Hostel in St. Petersburg

The Kunstkammer Museum in St. Petersburg – home of the Lomonosov Museum and near the

Mendeleev Apartment

The Church of the Spilt Blood looms at the end of a

St. Petersburg canal

The Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg

Dmitrii Mendeleev’s Study in St. Petersburg

Eleonora Dubovitzkaya shows Dr. Moskwa Mendeleev’s textbook on economic theory

Dr. Moskwa near the entrance to the “Moskwa Hotel” in St. Petersburg

Dr. Moskwa negotiating with an artist and his “agent” on the Neva River (with the Hermitage State

Museum in the background at left)

Where the last King of Poland spent his last days in exile in St. Petersburg.

A statue of Dmitrii Mendeleev near the Institute of Metrology, which he founded

Peterhof, the summer palace of the Tsars

The Tsarskoe Sielo, residence of Catherine the Great near St. Petersburg

Some Scientific Topics

1. Fritz Haber and the Fixation of Nitrogen

2. Clara Immerwahr – the Chemical Warfare Dilemma

3. Karl Bosch and Haber-Bosch Process

4. Otto Hahn Discovers Fission

5. Lise Meitner’s Role in Discovering Fission

6. Werner Heisenberg and the German Atomic Bomb

7. Kaiser Wilhelm II and his Institute

8. Clemens Winkler discovers Germanium

9. Wilhelm Ostwald and catalysts

10. Marie Skladovska Curie’s childhood

11. Marie and Pierre Curie discover Polonium and Radium

12. Dmitrii Mendeleev and the Periodic Table

13. Mikhail Lomonosov – the father of Russian Science and Poetry

Some Economic Topics

1. Financing Musical and Artistic Events – private vs state sources

2. Relative Exchange Rate and Purchasing Power of Currencies

3. The Corruption Index – Determination and Practical Implications

4. The Competitiveness Index – Determination and Practical Implications

5. The Globalization Index – Determination and Practical Implications

6. Consumer Goods -- Similarities and Differences in Availability

7. Comparative Studies of Movies, Books, TV Programming, Sports, Popular Music

8. Relative Life Expectancies

9. The Impact of the European Union on Germany, Poland, or Russia

10. The Big Mac Index – implications for a country’s economy!

11. The Building the Church of the Spilt Blood in 1905

More Economic Topics

1. Level of Income and Standards of Life (by country)

2. The Major Political Forces in Germany, Poland, or Russia – comparisons with the United States

3. The United States Steel Tariffs and its Impact on the Polish Steel Industry (Krakow)

4. Underground or Shadow Economy in a given country

5. Income distribution and poverty

Some Language and Culture Topics

1. A History of the Kurfurstendamm (Ku’damm) strasse

2. A History of the Hotel Bogota

3. The Berlin Wall and its Implications for a Divided City

4. The History of the Brandenburg Gate

5. The Book Burnings at the Babelplatz

6. Famous Exchanges at Check Point Charlie during the Cold War

7. The Reichstag as a Symbol of German History

8. The Wrapping of Reichstag by Christo (1995)

9. The Reichstag’s Restoration and Its Political Meaning

10. The Potsdam Platz: Its History and Redesign Today

Some Music Topics

1. Frederic Chopin -- Warsaw and Berlin Concert

2. Felix Mendelssohn – Leipzig

3. Johann Sebestian Bach – Leipzig

4. Gaetano Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor

5. Ludwig van Beethoven (Berlin Philharmonie)

6. Johannes Brahms (Berlin Philharmonie)

7. Arnold Schoenberg (Berlin Konzerthaus)

8. Gyorgy Ligeti (Berlin Konzerthaus)

9. Alexander Borodin – chemist by day; musician by night

10. Modest Mussorgsky

“Traveling in the Liberal Arts Tradition: Berlin, Leipzig, Warsaw,

and St. Petersburg”

May 11 – 31, 2004

Informational Meeting: December 10, 2003

“Scientific/Historical Traveling”; “Traveling with the Atom”; The “Alumni College” Website