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Terrorism in Europe: The 'German Autumn'
of 1977 after Thirty Years


Monday, November 4-8, 2007
See Schedule Below for Times and Locations
Case Western Reserve University

Sunday, November 4, 2007, Reception 4:30, Lecture 5:00, Clark 309:
Prof. Belinda Davis, Department of History, Rutgers University and Humboldt Universität Berlin, "The Many Lives of Terror: Political Activists, the RAF, the State, and the Media
in West Germany"

Monday, November 5, 2007, Reception 4:30, Talks and Screening 5:00, Clapp 108:
Viewing of the film Deutschland im Herbst (Germany in Autumn)(1978), a famous collage of short films by the leading German film-makers of the 1970s (German with English
subtitles); introduction and discussion leadership by Profs. Ledford and Vees-Gulani

Tuesday, November 6, 2007, Reception 4:30, Lecture 5:00, Clark 309:
Prof. Karin Bauer, Department of German Studies, McGill University, "Radical Visions: Aesthetic Responses to Ulrike Meinhof and the RAF"

Wednesday, November 7, 2007, Reception 4:30, Lecture 5:00, Clark 309:
Prof. Karrin M. Hanshew, Department of History, Michigan State University, "The 'German Autumn' as Turning Point, or, What the West Germans Learned from Terrorism"

Thursday, November 8, 2007, Reception 4:30, Talks and Screening 5:00, Clark 309:
Viewing of the film Was tun, wenn's brennt? (What Do You Do When It's Burning?)(2001) on the continuation of protest culture into the 1980s and its meaning for contemporary
German culture and identity (German with English subtitles); introduction and discussion leadership by Profs. Ledford and Vees-Gulani


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