Date and Time
April 11, 2006
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Availability
RSVP by 5PM April 10

Speaker
Wolfgang Eichwede - Director at the Institute for the Study of Eastern Europe, University of Bremen

Co-sponsored with CREEES and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.

Wolfgang Eichwede is a prominent historian and the Director of the Institute for the Study of Eastern Europe at the University of Bremen. His working interests include 20th century international relations as well as cultural and social issues of the Soviet Union and Russia. More recently he has dedicated himself to the study of the political and cultural changes in current Eastern Europe. The Institute for the Study of Eastern Europe has amassed one of the largest archival collections worldwide of documents pertaining to Eastern European social and cultural life. The Institute organized a series of displays in Berlin, Prague, Brussels, and Budapest between 1999 to 2004. Between 1992 and 2002, Mr. Eichwede led a group that investigated the Soviet culture losses during World War II.