Continuing the "Fall of the Wall" events this year, the Department of German rolled out the 42nd Wisconsin Workshop: "The Wall Came Down."
This international conference was organized by Professors Marc Silberman and Venkat Mani and was held at the Pyle Center from Nov. 5-7.
Interdisciplinary scholars and graduate students from the fields of German studies, history, anthropology, communication studies and geography assessed retrospectively how Germany came to terms with national and political division as well as the dynamics of contemporary scenarios of peoples divided against themselves.
Keynote speaker Professor Konrad Jarausch (University of North Carolina), a UW Madison history alumnus (PhD'69) who discussed the nature of the 1989 event.
The successful conference attracted overflow audiences interested in the cultural and social dimensions of borders, boundaries, and exclusions as well as bridges and crossings.
Many campus units contributed financially to the success of the program including: Center for German and European Studies, Center for European Studies, Year of the Humanities (Center for the Humanities), Global Studies Program, Center for Russia, East Europe and Central Asia, Departments of German and History, as well as the Consulate of the Federal Republic of