Today, 11/2 at 2:20pm, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, the German Foreign Minister at the time of the Berlin Wall’s fall on November 9, 1989 will speak at the “Walls Still to Fall” program in the SAIS courtyard at 1740 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC.
Other highlights include:
Tuesday November 3
12:00 pm: Azar Nafisi, Executive Director of Cultural Conversations; Professorial Lecturer; Foreign Policy Institute Visiting Fellow; Author of Things I Have Been Silent About (2008) and Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (2003)
5:30 pm: Carl Bildt, Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Radoslaw Sikorski, Polish Minister for Foreign Affairs
Wednesday November 4
9:30 am: Markus Meckel, Minister for Foreign Affairs, GDR, 1990; Member of the German Bundestag, 1990-2009
12:00 pm: Carl Gershman, President of the National Endowment for Democracy
Monday November 9
12:00 pm: Tear Down the Wall Party with Zoltán Gábor, Deputy Chief of Mission of the Embassy of Hungary and other guests TBA. Light refreshments will be served.
SAIS adds:
About The SAIS Wall Project: “Walls Still to Fall”
The SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations and students from the German Club SAIS are organizing a series of events to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall in the university courtyard at 1740 Massachusetts Avenue, NW. On November 1, students will build a wall on which the SAIS community and guests can paint, draw and spray their ideas of “Walls Still to Fall” in this world – be they actual barriers like that between the Koreas or walls blocking human rights and freedom.
Each day between 12-2 pm the week of November 2-9, an “Open Mic” will be available before the Wall for prominent guest speakers, students and others to address “Walls Still to Fall” – all are welcome to speak to that issue.
On Monday, November 9th, 2009, the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, we will then “tear down that wall.”
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