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Remembering Rostock contains a selection of essays and articles presented at a symposium in Ahrenshoop, then part of the German Democratic Republic, held to commemorate the Brown University-Rostock exchange program. It is a document of historical interest indicating the extent of pre-1989 contacts between the United States and the GDR at the level of scholarship. Contents: The "Task of Rememberance" in Recent German Literature of German Speaking Countries; Reading lists, literary canons, and cultural literacy; Research on Social Life in the Former GDR; Library Exchangesóa Contribution to the Promotion of International Understanding; Libraries and International Exchanges; Research into Thermophysical Propertiesóa Challenge to International Cooperation: The Brown-WPU Connection; Student Voices; Hopeful Texts and Despairing Readings; Re-membering Holderlin in an age of revolutionary convergence.