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 Choosing Change: a Symposium on the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall
  
 Date Nov 11, 2009 - Nov 13, 2009
    
 Location Various Locations. Please check Program.
    
 Sponsor The European Union Center; Germanic Languages and Literatures;School of Literatures,Cultures, and Linguistics; Center for Advanced Study; Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory; Department of French; Program in Jewish Studies and Society; Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center; Department of Theatre; Department of English; Gender and Women's Studies Program Department of History; Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities; The Program in Comparative and World Literature; Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures;Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese; Department of Political Science; and Unit for Cinema Studies.
    
 Contact Prof. Anke Pinkert
    
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 Event type Co-sponsored
    
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Wednesday, November 11:

Film Screening, 7-10 p.m., Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages
Building, 707 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana. Lives of Others (2006). Professor Anke Pinkert, German, introduction; Professor Karl-Heinz Schoeps, German, Q&A.


Thursday, November 12:

Faculty Panel, 3-4:30 p.m., General Lounge, Room 210, Illini Union, 1401 W.
Green St., Urbana. “Personal Narratives on the Fall of the Berlin Wall.” Moderator: Professor Anna Stenport, German.

Participants: Professor Yasemin Yildiz, German; Regine Kroh, German; Dr. Eva Grünstein-Neuman, Champaign-
Urbana; Professor Anke Pinkert, German; and Professor Marcus Keller, French.

Keynote address, 5:15-6:45 p.m., General Lounge, Room 210, Illini Union. Gabriele Gysi, Berlin:"Der Flügelschlag eines Schmetterlings..., die DDR als Mikrokosmos der Weltpolitik" (lecture in German).


Friday, November 13:

“Post-1989 Literature and Culture: New Approaches” (graduate student
panel), 9-11 a.m., 2090B Foreign Languages Building: Moderator: Professor Stephanie Hilger, German.

Participants: Molly Markin, German; Regine Kroh, German; Daria Kabanova, Comparative and World Literature; Jessica Wienhold, Comparative and World Literature; Soeren Priebe, German.

 
 
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