Upcoming
The sixteenth Cold War Spaces lunchtime talk with Julia Tatiana Bailey, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the National Gallery in Prague, and Joes Segal, Chief Curator and Director of Programming at the Wende Museum.
Globalization is all about the free flow of people, goods, capital, and ideas, but more than ever states are encapsulating themselves, closing their borders and hesitant to recognize immigrants as part of the nation. Why are border crossings, both physically and culturally, conceived as a threat? What motivates the current worldwide tendency toward exclusion? In Search of Our Times is a six panel discussions presented as part of Wende Conversations: A Discussion Series Supported by Susan Horowitz and Rick Feldman.
The seventeenth Cold War Spaces lunchtime talk with Daniel Immerwahr, Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University in Chicago, and Joes Segal, the Wende Museum's Chief Curator and Director of Programming.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948. What is its current role and status? Is it still possible to believe in universal human rights, even if they are constantly challenged at home and abroad? Has postmodernism eroded the belief in universal ethics? How could we restore ethics in politics? The six-panel discussions are presented as part of Wende Conversations: A Discussion Series Supported by Susan Horowitz and Rick Feldman.