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| Title | Lecture Series by Heinrich August Winkler |
| Body | From http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/bos/en2429352.htm Prof. Heinrich August Winkler, the prominent historian from Berlin’s Humboldt University, and author of the recent book, Germany: The Long Road West (Oxford University Press, 2006) will will speak at Harvard University and the Goethe-Institut Boston. September 24, 4:15 pm Still a Community of Values? Historical Reflections on the Normative Basis of the West Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge 02138 The European Union is often referred to as community of values. But, in the geographical sense, Europe never established a community of values. The values referred to by the European Union are the values that Western Europe has in common with the great democracies of the Western world. The lecture follows the West’s long path to the division of power, the inalienable rights of humankind, and pluralistic democracy. September 25, 6:00 pm The Long Way West: A Farewell to the German Question Goethe-Institut Boston For almost two hundred years, the "German Question“ preoccupied the Germans, Europe, and the world: from the time of the dissolution of the "Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation“ in 1806 to the unification of Germany on 3 October 1990. This lecture is concerned with the question of why Germany, much later than Great Britain and France, became a national state and even later a democracy. For more information, go to http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/bos/en2429352.htm . |
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