(FACULTY BOOK TALK) Remembering 1989: Future Archives of Public Protest
Mar 30, 2026 4:00 pm
Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
- Sponsor
- Humanities Research Institute
- Speaker
- Anke Pinkert
- Cost
- FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
- Contact
- Anke Pinkert
- pinkert@illinois.edu
- Originating Calendar
- Germanic Events
Remembering 1989: Future Archives of Public Protest
In the fall of 1989, citizens of East Germany took to the streets and, for a few electric months, built something rare: a genuine experiment in radical democracy. Then the West moved in—and that experiment was erased from national and global memory. Remembering 1989 asks why this “time out of joint” was buried, and how the unresolved legacies of post-Cold War transformations are driving the rise of right-wing movements across Europe and beyond today.