Dear students and interested parties,

I am pleased to announce a guest lecture by Adrian PALKA PhD, Senior Lecturer at the University of Coventry, on Tuesday 6.11., 10 a.m. G IV 0.15 as part of the course WKb 18 European Cultural History. The artist Wolfram Spyra <derspyra@mac.com> will also be a guest. The lecture will be given in German.

Guests from other matriculations, the Studium Fundamentale and the wider
public are very welcome.

25 Years ago I wrote my master's thesis on, "Kulturpolitik und deutsch-polnische Versöhnung in der Grenzstadt Goerlitz/Zgorzelec." Is was not long after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and European integration was the theme of the day. The arts and culture were to be its vehicle. Inspired by the writings of Gunter Grass and Hermann Glaser my research and artistic practice explored the cultural coordinates of the new post-cold war reality. Today, Brexit undermines all this - this lecture will revisit this thesis and go on to discuss selected cultural/political responses to open borders in the UK. The lecture will be given in German.

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