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Dealing with history and heritage
Will vergangenheitsbewältigung become the next German loanword in American English? It means “working through the past” and it is the topic for discussion as we welcome guest speaker Henning Schroeder, PhD, director of international programs in the College of Pharmacy and a professor in the Department of Pharmaceutics. Schroeder is a former vice provost and dean of graduate education at the University of Minnesota. In addition to his current roles in the College of Pharmacy, he is also an affiliate professor in the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch.
UMRA A.M. | Dealing with history and heritage
Tue, September 8 2020, 9am
Event to be held via Zoom.
Will vergangenheitsbewältigung become the next German loanword in American English? It means “working through the past” and it will be the topic for discussion when we welcome guest speaker Henning Schroeder, PhD, director of international programs in the College of Pharmacy and a professor in the Department of Pharmaceutics, for UMRA’s first morning forum on at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, September 8, via Zoom.
“In my home country, Germany, the ‘national story’ is anything but linear and has none of America’s fairytale qualities of exceptionalism,” says Schroeder. “The Iron Curtain is long gone but has a lingering effect on people’s minds—just like the Mason-Dixon line. Working through the past is an ongoing project in Germany and has often been as controversial as it is in the U.S. right now.”
Schroeder is a former vice provost and dean of graduate education at the University of Minnesota. In addition to his current roles in the College of Pharmacy, he is also an affiliate professor in the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch.
He grew up in West Germany in the 1960s and 1970s and received his doctorate in pharmacology from Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, he returned to Europe and joined the faculty at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in former East Germany.
Schroeder has been living in Minnesota since 2007 and recently wrote two articles on the resurgence of nationalism in the United States and Europe: “When all the heroes have fallen: Lessons from Germany,” published by the Star Tribune, and “Can you return a gift from your Founding Father? (It's been done in Germany),” published by The Society Pages.
Please register and join us for this first UMRA A.M. forum starting at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, September 8.
About UMRA A.M.
UMRA is adding to its programs this fall with a monthly, coffee-time forum on the second Tuesday of each month. UMRA Living Well workshops will continue, on the third Tuesday of the month, as will our monthly noontime forums on the fourth Tuesday of the month, all via Zoom.
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