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German Studies Forum 1949-1989-2009. The Path to German and European
Unity<br>
Tuesday, 29 September 2009</font><br>
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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The year 2009 sees the
twentieth
anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the opening of the border
between East and West Germany, as well as the sixtieth anniversary of
the German Grundgesetz (Basic Law). On 29 September 2009, we
will mark this occasion with a German Studies Forum, which will
comprise a number of lectures by professors and graduate students from
the Waterloo Centre for German Studies, the University of Waterloo, and
universities in South-West Ontario. All talks are
open to undergraduate and graduate students, colleagues, and the
broader community. In the evening (7pm-8pm), the speaker will be Paul
Heinbecker,
who is a CIGI Distinguished Fellow and used to be the Chief Foreign
Policy Advisor to Prime Minster Mulroney. During the day, we will have
a number of presentations on different aspects of German society and
culture by specialists from a variety of disciplines: Anthropology,
History, German Studies, Geography, Economics, Political Science.<br>
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Talks in the morning will be in Hagey Hall 334 (10am-11.30am). All
takes in the afternoon and evening (12.45pm - 9pm) as well as the
reception will be in MacKirdy Hall at St. Paul's College. The schedule
and abstracts of the nine talks are available at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://wcgs.ca/www/index.php/programming/events/68-gsf4989.html">http://wcgs.ca/www/index.php/programming/events/68-gsf4989.html</a>.
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Mat Schulze, PhD
Director of the Waterloo Centre for German Studies
Associate Professor of German
Dept of Germanic and Slavic Studies
University of Waterloo
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://germanicandslavic.uwaterloo.ca/~mschulze">http://germanicandslavic.uwaterloo.ca/~mschulze</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.wcgs.ca">http://www.wcgs.ca</a></pre>
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