Calendar

Sep
5
Fri
Film Screening: Good Bye Lenin! @ 421 Hall of Languages
Sep 5 @ 5:30 pm

Directed by Wolfgang Becker
In German with English subtitles

East Germany, the year 1989: A young man protests against the regime and is arrested. His mother suffers a heart attack and falls into a coma. When she wakes up from it, the wall is gone and the country she knew no longer exists. What unfolds now is a bittersweet comedy about the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Sep
15
Mon
Conversations in IR: The Streets of Berlin 9 November 1989: Chance and Contingency @ 225B Eggers Hall
Sep 15 @ 12:45 pm

Laurie Marhoefer, Professor of History at Syracuse University, discusses the short-term cause of the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989 and the role of chance in this historical moment.

Sep
16
Tue
Film Screening: The Lives of Others @ 110 Bowne Hall
Sep 16 @ 5:30 pm

Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
In German with English subtitles

A thriller, a love story, and a fairy tale about the GDR and the surveillance by the Stasi, East Germany’s secret police. What is the role of literature and art in such a system? Do lovers have a chance within a regime of spying and betrayal?

Sep
22
Mon
Lecture: Destruction and Construction: Economics and the Fall of the Berlin Wall presented by Irwin Collier @ 220 Eggers Hall
Sep 22 @ 4:00 pm

Irwin Collier is the Director of the John F. Kennedy Institute and Professor of Economics at Freie Universität Berlin.

Join us for for a reception following the lecture.

Oct
7
Tue
Lecture: Commemorating a Revolution: Public Memory and National Identity in Germany after 1989 presented by Ralph Jessen @ 220 Eggers Hall
Oct 7 @ 4:00 pm

Ralph Jessen is a Professor of Modern History at the University of Cologne.

Join us for for a reception following the lecture.

Oct
8
Wed
Film Screening: The Burning Wall @ Kittredge Auditorium, HBC Hall
Oct 8 @ 5:30 pm

Director, Hava Kohav Beller will host a discussion following the film screening.

In English

One of the most compelling documentaries about life and dissent in East Germany between 1949 and 1989, centering on the physicist Robert Havemann, the film focuses on acts of courage and resistance despite brutal consequences.