November 14, 2019
11:45 – 1:45 pm
C.K. Choi, Rm. #120
Lunch will be served at 11:45 am
The Fall of the Berlin Wall: A Panel Discussion with UBC Faculty and Contemporary Witnesses
Organized as part of a series commemorating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
On November 9, 1989, the border dividing Berlin and Germany was opened. Yet, despite having been physically dismantled, the Berlin Wall lives on in the thinking of many Germans. 30 years later it is time to take stock of the legacies of unification for Germany and, more broadly, Europe. This discussion with scholars of Europe and contemporary witnesses will take us back to what happened in the fall of 1989 and examine the social, cultural, and economic effects of unification.
The roundtable, moderated by Dr. Sima Godfrey (Wall Scholar at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, Department of French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies), will feature speakers including:
- Dr. Antje Ellermann, Director of the Institute for European Studies
- Prof. Kurt Huebner, Jean Monnet Chair for European Integration and Global Political Economy, Professor of Political Science
- Dr. Kyle Frackman, Associate Professor of German and Scandinavian Studies
- Prof. Lutz Lampe, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Pastor Hardo Ermisch, St. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church
- Prof. Chris Friedrichs, Professor Emeritus of History
Presented by the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany, Vancouver in partnership with the Institute for European Studies, and the Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies.