What is going on in Russia in terms of linguistic rights and language activism? What languages are spoken in Russia? What is the official status of those languages, and how are the non-Russian or the so-called minority languages maintained? The topic of this conversation is the rapid decline of linguistic diversity and the suppression of linguistic rights in the Russian Federation. Linguistic discrimination and language genocide are highly under-represented issues in not only Russia’s history, but global history as well.

Tuesday November 19, 2019

5:00 PM Lecture by Brigitta Malm

Followed by Reception

Newcomb Hall Room 308

TOTALLY EAST - Life in East Germany

Poster Exhibition

Opening reception October 18, 2019

The exhibit will be open to the public until November 22, 2019

 "Barbara"

"Good Bye Lenin"

First out of three movie screenings begins with the movie “Sonnenallee”

With a collection of more than 100,000 unique artifacts from the Soviet Bloc countries during the Cold War the Wende Museum is one of the leading museums of its kind worldwide. The museum not only collects and preserves materials that offer insight into political realities, cultural trends, and everyday life, but also aims to present them in a thought-provoking way, making connections between past and present and asking pertinent questions about how history is written and experienced.

The Department of German and Slavic Studies with the Tulane German Club and the Africana Studies Program is proud to present:

INTERNATIONAL MOVIE NIGHT

Monday November 19th, 2018, 6:00 PM

City Diner in the Lavin-Bernick Center

PIZZA PROVIDED

Come see a film screening of “Gegen die Wand” (Head On) by Fatih Akin. This 2004 drama is described as follows: "Aiming to break free from her strict family, a suicidal young woman sets up a marriage of convenience with a much older addict, a plan yielding an outburst of envious, sometimes outrageous love. Set in both German and in Turkey, Head On considers how people live, and struggle, under the burdens of their inherited identities.

Come see "Shaping Germany: Integrating Immigrants," a poster exhibit with individual stories and viewpoints from refugees, German volunteers and professionals who work towards better integration. The exhibition comprises of 30 posters which are posted along the walls of the third floor of Newcomb Hall (between rooms 300 and 310).