CREECA Special Guest Lecture

Dr. Clemens Ruthner is Professor of German and European Studies at Trinity College Dublin and Director of Research of its School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies, currently short-term visiting scholar at UC Berkeley. This talk will critically examine four types of discourses constructing Central Europe ("Mitteleuropa") as a geo-political entity (Palacky, Naumann, Biró, Kundera and the revival of the concept in the 1980s), exposing the underlying (post-)imperial(ist) agenda.