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“Freedom Without Walls” begins today with the following events.

  • David Shribman (right), Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and executive editor of the Pittsburg Post-Gazette, will give a lecture entitled “Why History Never Ends” at 2:30 p.m. in the Grupp Fireside Lounge.
  • “The Rabbit is Me” (1965), a film created to encourage discussion of the democratization of East German society, will be shown at 7 p.m. in Lyons Hall, Room 418.
  • Today is also the first day of the “wall art” contest, which includes students creating panels reminiscent of the original Berlin Wall.

“Freedom Without Walls” commemorates the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the demise of communism. To learn more about this week’s events, click here.

Submitted by: Peter Böhm, associate professor, modern languages