The Fall of the Berlin Wall-20 Yrs.After
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"Novermber 9, 1989" : The Fall of the Berlin Wall, Twenty Years After
| Time: | Sun Nov 08 2009 11:30 AM to 09:15 PM | |||||||||||
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''November 9, 1989'': The Fall of the Berlin Wall, Twenty Years After November 8-9, 2009 University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio 45221 This event will be held at Tangeman University Center Rooms 400A/B/C, 417A/B, Great Hall 465, and Mick and Macks Cafe. Sponsored by the Charles Phelps Taft Memorial Fund, the University Research Council, and the Faculty Development Council at the University of Cincinnati On November 9, 1989, the East German party functionary Günter Schabowski announced the official "opening" of the Berlin Wall for travel purposes? one day later, on November 10, East Berliners ventured out en masse into West Berlin. As an historic event, the fall of the Wall marked the presumed "end" of the Cold War and "death" of communism. In its wake the world witnessed the dissolution of the USSR? a shift in Soviet policy toward glasnost' (openness) and perestroika (economic restructuring)? the so-called Autumn Revolutions of 1989 throughout Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Bulgaria? the reunification of East and West Germany one year later in 1990? and rapid geopolitical and global capitalist restructuring. Our conference will examine the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and the subsequent international political, economic, geographic, and cultural transformations over the past twenty years. Keynote Speakers: Sander L. Gilman (Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Emory University); Josef Joffe (Founding editor and publisher of Die Zeit, Hamburg; Political Science, Stanford University); Saskia Sassen (Sociology, Columbia University); James Sheehan (History, Stanford University) The entire conference will be free and open to the public. |
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| Organization: | TAFT RESEARCH CENTER | |||||||||||
| Requestor: | Jana Braziel  +1 513 558 7367
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