A Free Public Symposium on
Terrorism in Europe:
The 'German Autumn' of 1977 after Thirty Years
Symposium Directors:
Kenneth F. Ledford
Associate Professor of History and Law
Susanne Vees-Gulani
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature
and German
College of Arts and Sciences
Case Western Reserve University
Program
(Program subject to change)
Sunday, November 4, 2007:
4:30 p.m. Reception
5:00 p.m. Lecture
“The Many Lives of Terror: Political Activists, the RAF, the State, and the Media in West Germany”
Belinda Davis
Department of History, Rutgers University, and
Humboldt Universität Berlin
Reception and Lecture: Clark Hall, Room 309, 11130 Bellflower Road, Cleveland
Monday, November 5, 2007:
4:30 p.m. Reception
5:00 p.m. Film Screening
Film Screening and Discussion:
Film:
Deutschland im Herbst (Germany in Autumn) (1978), German with English subtitles
A famous collage of short films by the leading German film-makers of the 1970s
Introduction and discussion leadership by Profs. Ledford and Vees-Gulani
Reception and Film Screening: Clapp Hall, Room 108, Adelbert Road, Cleveland
Tuesday, November 6, 2007:
4:30 p.m. Reception
5:00 p.m. Lectcure
Karin Bauer
Department of German Studies, McGill University
"Radical Visions: Aesthetic Responses to Ulrike Meinhof and the RAF"
Recetion and Lecture: Clark Hall, Room 309, 11130 Bellflower Road, Cleveland
Wednesday, November 7, 2007:
4:30 p.m. Reception
5:00 p.m. Lectcure
Karrin M. Hanschew
Department of History, Michigan State University
"The 'German Autumn' as Turning Pointk, or, What the West Germans Learned form Terrorism "
Recetion and Lecture: Clark Hall, Room 309, 11130 Bellflower Road, Cleveland
Thursday, November 8, 2007:
4:30 p.m. Reception
5:00 p.m. Film Screening
Film Screening and Discussion:
Film: Was tun, wenn's brennt? (What Do You Do When It's Burning?), (2001), German with English subtitles
This film focuses on the continuation of protest culture into the 1980s and its meaning for contemporary German culture and identity.
Introduction and discussion leadership by Profs. Ledford and Vees-Gulani
Reception and Film Screening: Clapp Hall, Room 108, Adelbert Road, Cleveland
For further information, contact:
kenneth.ledford@case.edu
susanne.vees-gulani@case.edu
or call 216.368.8961
Sponsored by the German Studies Program, the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, the department of Modern Languages and Literatures, the department of History, and the Center for Policy Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, and The Ohio Humanities Council.
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