As previously announced, the Centre for East German Studies is organising a
one-day conference in Reading on Saturday 20 October to mark the forty
years since the building of the Berlin Wall. Programme details below.
Registration fee: GBP 20.00 (concessions GBP 10.00) (includes refreshments
and buffet lunch).
DIE BERLINER MAUER 1961-1989: ERRICHTUNG, FALL, FOLGEN
Room 44, Faculty of Letters Building, Whiteknights Campus, University of
Reading
Saturday 20 October 2001
10.15 Arrival and coffee
10.45 Introduction
11.00 Patrick Major (University of Warwick): '13 August 1961: The Secret
Founding Day of the GDR?'
12.00 Günter Schabowski (former member of the GDR Politbüro): 'Der 9.
November 1989 und wie es dazu kam'
13.00 Buffet lunch
14.00 Peter Barker (University of Reading): 'The Wall and the
Post-Unification Process'
15.00 Tea
15.30 Plenary discussion
17.00 Close
(Please note that the conference languages are English and German:
translation facilities will not be provided.)
Full details (including map of the venue) will be sent to those wishing to
attend on receipt of a deposit of 5 pounds. Please send cheques (payable to
'University of Reading') as soon as possible, and in any case to arrive by
12 October, to: Berlin Wall Conference, Department of German Studies,
University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AA.
(Apologies for any cross-posting to those who enquired after the initial
conference announcement: this mailing is also being sent to you
individually.)
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John Sandford
Professor of German Studies
The University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AA, UK
tel. 0118 931 8332 / fax 0118 931 8333
Department of German Studies home page:
http://www.rdg.ac.uk/german/
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