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Replica of Berlin Wall will be at Canisius |
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A 56-foot long, eight-foot high sheetrock replica of the Berlin Wall will be constructed in the college’s main quadrangle behind the old main building. As part of the observance, Canisius College students will design wall art on its panels reminiscent of the original Berlin Wall and compete in an artwork contest. The general public is welcome to come to campus and view the wall. David Shribman, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and executive editor of the Pittsburg Post-Gazette, will give a lecture entitled Why History Never Ends at 2:30 p.m. Nov. 2 in the Grupp Fireside Lounge located on the second floor of the Richard E. Winter ‘42 Student Center. The Rabbit Is Me, a film created to encourage discussion of the democratization of East German society, will be shown at 7 p.m. Nov. 2 in Lyons Hall room 418. Andreas Daum, associate dean for undergraduate education and professor of history at the State University of New York at Buffalo, will speak on Berlin in the American Century at 4 p.m. Nov. 3 in the Grupp Fireside Lounge. Das Land hinter dem Regenbogen, entitled The Land Beyond the Rainbow, a harsh yet poetic critique of Stalinism in East German, will be screened at 7 p.m. Nov. 3 in Lyons Hall room 418. John Occhipinti, Ph.D., professor of political science and director of European studies at Canisius College, will talk about what belongs together in now growing together: German unity in the context of European integration at 3:45 p.m. Nov. 4 in the Grupp Fireside Lounge. Jan and Jana, a 1992 film that depicts the tumultuous love affair between two teenage inmates at a German democratic republic center for juvenile delinquents, will be shown at 7 p.m. Nov. 4 in Lyons Hall room 418. Students from 15 local high schools will visit Canisius College from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov. 5. Participants will view the wall and take part in interactive sessions staffed by Canisius College German majors. Students will learn about Germany during the fall of communism as well as German culture. Horst Freitag, Consul General Federal Republic of Germany, will give a lecture entitled Transatlantic Relations-20 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall at 8 p.m. Nov. 5 in the Grupp Fireside Lounge. Burning Life will be screened at 7 p.m. Nov. 5 in Lyons Hall room 418. The film portrays contemporary Germany as a land of despair and disillusion, where people seem to have only two options in life, a career in crime or suicide. In A Foreign Shoe: A Reporter’s View of the Collapse of Communism will be the topic of John Tagliabue’s lecture at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 6 in the Grupp Fireside Lounge. Tagliabue is a correspondent for The New York Times. Free parking is available in the college’s ramp located on Jefferson Avenue. Events are free and open to the public. For more information, call 888-2327, or email boehmp@canisius.edu. |
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