Activity Type:
Lecture
Presenter:
Dr. Helmut Peitsch, Professor of German, University of Potsdam
Date:
Wednesday, November 16, 2016 - 16:30
Event Status:
As Scheduled
Location:
Humanities Center, 602 Cathedral of Learning
As Europe faces what has been called "its biggest crisis for decades," German post-WWII history offers interesting points of comparison. As a result of the lessons of World War II, the two German states eventually both embraced liberal asylum laws and also welcomed Jews who were willing to return and settle in Germany. This talk looks at the German reception of three international conferences of intellectuals which took place in New York and Paris in 1949 – after the World Congress of Intellectuals for Peace in Wroclaw 1948 and before the foundational Congress for Cultural Freedom in Berlin 1950. The focus is on the role of two German-Jewish writers who returned from exile in 1945 and 1946 respectively, Hans Mayer and Alfred Kantorowicz.
UCIS Unit:
European Studies Center
European Union Center of Excellence
World Regions:
Europe
European Union
Western Europe