Special thanks to Co-sponsors of this event:

 The President's Office, The Provost's Office, College of Arts & Sciences,  Shoemaker Endowment Fund in History, Economics, Foreign Languages & Literatures, Feminist Research Institute, Women Studies, Religious Studies, and the University Honors Program.

UPCOMING EVENTS

 

See Selected Lecture videos on UNM LIVE:

 

ISI's Fall Lecture Series

 

Revolutions

of 1989:

From Tiananmen Square

to the Berlin Wall

 

November 2-9, 2009

 

Monday, November 2 (Dane Smith Hall 120)

2:00 pm:  “Nothing Happened Here: Tiananmen Square 1989,” Fabio Lanza, Assistant Professor of History, University of Arizona

Tuesday, November 3 (Dane Smith Hall 120)

12:30 pm:  “Did Yugoslavia Have a 1989?” Melissa Bokovoy, Associate Professor of History and Regents’ Lecturer, UNM

Wednesday, November 4 (Dane Smith Hall 120)

2:00 pm:  “Home Is Where the Wall Is: Ambivalence in Margarethe von Trotta’s 1994 Film The Promise,” Katja Schröter, Associate Professor of German, UNM

Thursday, November 5 (Dane Smith Hall 120 &125)

12:30 pm:  Panel Discussion on “Life under Socialism” with UNM faculty members Sever Bordeianu (General Library), Tania Ivanova (FLL), Katja Schröter (FLL); moderated by Erika Monahan (History)

5:30 pm:  ”Nouveau Bravado or Brave New World? Russian Culture after 1989,” Helena Goscilo, Professor and Chair of Slavic Languages & Literatures, Ohio State University

Friday, November 6 (Dane Smith Hall 120)

2:00 pm:  “The Emergence of Transnational Subjects: The EU Eastern Enlargement and Women’s Activism in Poland,” Joanna Regulska, Professor of Women’s Studies and Geography, Dean of International Programs, Rutgers University

Monday, November 9 (SUB Ballroom B)

5:30 pm:  “Tearing Down the Wall: The East German Revolution and German Unification, 1989-1990,” Jonathan Zatlin, Associate Professor of History, Boston University