The diplomats will present their countries’ perspectives on recent history and current developments.
The panel, 100 Years since WWI: Dictatorship and Democracy in an Age of Extremes, is open to the public. The discussion will offer commentary and reflections on a century of extremes, including the rise of Italian fascism and Soviet communism, the world economic crisis of the 1930s, the rise of Nazi power leading to World War II, the fall of the Iron Curtain, the Cold War and peaceful revolutions.
The Waterloo Centre for German Studies is hosting the event in co-operation with the departments of French, History, and Germanic and Slavic Studies at UWaterloo. For more information, please visit the Waterloo Centre for German Studies.
Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Time: 5 p.m.
Location: Arts Lecture Hall room 113, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West.
This is a free event. Parking is available in lot H, with some limited free spots for those who indicate that they are attendingthis panel.