Idei în Agora / Ideas in the Agora
(LII) The Peaceful Revolution in Leipzig in European and Global Contexts
Public debate: Tobias Hollitzer, Gisela Kallenbach, Michael Kölsch, Matthias Middell,
Volker Rodekamp
Welcome address by Gabriele Goldfuss.
Opening statement by Michael Kölsch
Moderator: Sorin Antohi
Casa Filipescu-Cesianu, Calea Victoriei 151
4 October 2019, 18:00
Our series opens its third year with two public discussions devoted to the revolutions of 1989 (the first was held on 1 October; see details below). These events are a continuation of our Ideas in the Agora Festival, which has already included a colloquium (on 23 June; see details below), also debating the theme of 1989 and of its aftermath. The evenings of 1 and 4 October feature invited guests from Leipzig, in the framework of a Leipzig Week in Bucharest organized by the City of Leipzig, the Embassy of Germany in Romania, and the City of Bucharest. I would like to thank all those, in Germany and in Romania, who made these events possible.
This evening’s debate features a diverse–and in many ways symbolic–selection of speakers from Leipzig, with whom we shall explore the memory and legacies of that city’s Peaceful Revolution. Placing it in its European and global contexts, we shall bear in mind Romania’s Bloody ‘Revolutions’ and their aftermath, including their haunting afterlives.
Sorin Antohi
Descarca pliant Idei in Agora 4 octombrie 2019
