"Freedom Without Walls"
Celebrating 20 years since the fall of the Berlin wall on November 9, 1989.
http://www.duke.edu/web/withoutwalls/
Upcoming Events!
Gala-
"Ich bin ein Berliner."
Saturday November 7, 2009
This gala event will feature cultural German music and delicious hors-d'oeuvres and will be the perfect culmination point to an ambitious and important semester-long project focusing on the fall of the wall.
Charity Run
Sunday November 8, 2009 at 12Noon
Part of the Freedom Without Walls celebration at Duke will be a charity 5K benefiting SEEDS in Durham, NC.
Exhibition
In his collection "East Berlin: And the Wall Came Down," Brooklyn-based photographer Vincent Cianni has captured a visual record of an important historic episode.
International Area Studies, 2nd Floor Bostock (near the Asian Reading Room)
Lectures and Colloquia:
UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University
Departments of German
Works in Progress Series
September 2009:
Dr. Thomas Pfau
Duke University
"Virtually Rational: Play, 'Bildung', and the Contingency of Aesthetic Form around 1800."
Tuesday September 9, 2009
7:00PM
October 2009:
Molly Knight
Duke University
"Eastern Promises: The Search for Redemption in Contemporary German Literature"
Tuesday October 20, 2009
7:00 PM
Meeting at the North Carolina Hillel in Chapel Hill
210 West Cameron Blvd
December 2009:
Dr. Ruth von Bernuth
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
"Shared Worlds: The Status of Yiddish in Early Modern Germany"
Tuesday December 1, 2009
Time and Location: TBA
January 2010:
Robert Blankenship
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
"Jablonski's Cerebral Hemorrhage: Abjection and Self-Destruction in Wener Heiduczek's Tod am Meer" and Anja Wieden (UNC-CH)
Tuesday January 19, 2010
Time and Location: TBA
February 2010:
Dr. Kata Gellen
Duke University
"Indexing Identity: Fritz Lang's M"
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Time and Location: TBA
April 2010:
Caroline Kita
Duke University
"Beyond 'Funeral Rites': Adam Mickiewicz's Mysticism in the Works of Siegfried Lipiner and Gustav Mahler."
Tuesday April 13, 2010
Time and Location: TBA
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