Lecture Overview

Started with the summer term 2004, a new lecture series, called Hiroshima-Nagasaki Peace Study Courses, has been offered as an option in the "studium generale" at the TFH Berlin - now renamed to "Beuth Hochschule für Technik Berlin" (BHT).

Further information is available and can be downloaded by clicking Abstract of the selected topic. However, most of these abstracts are in German, English translation is running.

In the summer term 2013 these lectures will take place in "Haus Bauwesen", room D H5, every Wednesday 10:00-11:30 and will be structured into the following 15 topics (subject to change):

1. April 10, 2013
   a) Introduction
   b) Manhattan Project - Development of nuclear weapons during WWII in USA
   Abstract      Manhattan Project script      Manhattan Project chronology
   Prof. Eugen Eichhorn
   
   
2. April 17, 2013
   The Better Angle of Our Nature - Peace Creation by Cities and Citizens
   Dr. Tadatoshi Akiba, former mayor of the city of Hiroshima
   
   
3. April 24, 2013
   Atomic bombs on Japanese cities: Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1
   The physical-technical dimension of destruction
   Abstract
   Dipl.-Ing. Jürgen Schröter
   
   
4. May 8, 2013
   Hiroshima and Nagasaki 2: The human dimension of destruction.
   a) Selected examples of Japanese a-bomb literature, Genbaku Bungaku - part 1
   b) Testimony of Akihiro Takahashi († November 2011)
   Abstract      examples of Japanese a-bomb literature (German translation)      Testimony of Akihiro Takahashi
   Prof. Eugen Eichhorn
   
   
5. May 15, 2013
   Hiroshima and Nagasaki 3: The human dimension of destruction (cont'd).
   a) Selected examples of Japanese a-bomb literature, Genbaku Bungaku - part 2
   b) Cinematic reconstruction of the historic center of Hiroshima by Masaaki Tanabe
   c) Testimony of Hideto Sotobayashi († December 2011)
   Abstract
   Prof. Eugen Eichhorn
   
   
6. May 22, 2013
   Nuclear strategies and international treaties of arms restriction and arms reduction 1
   Abstract
   Otfried Nassauer, head of BITS (Berliner Informationszentrum für transatlantische Sicherheit)
   
   
7. May 29, 2013
   Nuclear strategies and international treaties of arms restriction and arms reduction 2
   Abstract
   Otfried Nassauer, head of BITS (Berliner Informationszentrum für transatlantische Sicherheit)
   
   
8. June 5, 2013
   The history of international peace movements in the atomic age
   Abstract
   Xanthe Hall (IPPNW)
   
   
9. June 12, 2013
   "Atoms for Peace 1": A speech of the former US president Dwight D. Eisenhower in front of the UNO assembly in 1953, the Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) of 1970 and need of its replacement by a nuclear weapon convention
   Abstract
   Xanthe Hall (IPPNW)
   
   
10. June 19, 2013
    "Atoms for Peace 2": Risks in civil use of nuclear energy - part 1:
    Averages of the nuclear power stations in Tschernobyl (1986) and Fukushima (2011)
    Abstract
    Dr. Sebastian Pflugbeil (Gesellschaft für Strahlenschutz)
    
    
11. June 26, 2013
    "Atoms for Peace 3": Risks in civil use of nuclear energy - part 2:
    The recent "KiKK Study" of the German Government or damages caused by nuclear power stations working in normal operation
    Abstract
    Dr. Sebastian Pflugbeil (Gesellschaft für Strahlenschutz)
    
    
12. July 3, 2013
    Peace cultures - biographies part 1: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (South Africa, India)
    Abstract
    Prof. Eugen Eichhorn
    
    
13. July 6, 2013
    Peace cultures - biographies part 2: Nelson Mandela (South Africa)
    Peace cultures - biographies part 3: Martin Luther King jun. (USA)
    Abstract
    NN and Uli Sonn, Theologian  (Internationaler Versöhnungsbund)
    
    
14. July 10, 2013
    Peace cultures - biographies part 4: Thich Nhat Hanh (Vietnam, France)
    Abstract
    Prof. Eugen Eichhorn
    
    
15. July 13, 2013
    Peace Study Course knowledge examination by written test
    Prof. Eugen Eichhorn