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On shoelaces, fishing manuals, and the fear of misspeaking

Nov 05, 2009

Lecture at the GHI | Katrin Askan (Berlin) | Lecture Series: DDR - Was bleibt? East German Legacies in German History

Organized by Uta Balbier und Ines Prodöhl

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East German Socialist Modernity and Consumer Culture Before and After the Wall
September 17, 2009
Katherine Pence (Baruch College)

Popular Culture, Memory, and German Unification: Heiner Carow's "The Mistake"
October 05, 2009
Barton Byg (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Please note: The lecture will take place at the Goethe Institut Washington DC (directions)
Afterlives: On the Resonance of Vanished German States (Prussia, Weimar, the Third Reich, the GDR)
October 15, 2009
Charles S. Maier (Harvard University)
Shoelaces, Fishing Manuals, and the Fear of Misspeaking
November 05, 2009
Katrin Askan (Berlin)
'Was it really meant to be this way'? Unification and the Remaking of German Party Politics
December 03, 2009
Daniel Hough (University of Sussex)

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