Berlin Wall Commemoration at Carroll Continues with Film and Lecture

October 22, 2009


Carroll celebrates one of the landmark events of the 20th century with a series of campus commemorations of the 1989 Berlin Wall's destruction and, in the same year, the Velvet Revolutions ousting communist regimes throughout Eastern Europe. The celebration continues next Thursday, Oct. 29, with a free, public screening of the Academy Award winning best foreign film of 2007, "The Lives of Others" in Carroll's O'Connell Hall room 107 at 7:30 p.m.

The commemoration events continue on Monday, Nov. 9, with a lecture, "Commemorating the Berlin Wall: 20 Years after the Fall," by Dr. Gillian Glaes, modern European historian in Carroll's Department of History, at 7:30 p.m. in the Simperman Hall Wiegand Amphitheater (room 101/202). This event is free and open to the public.