The Global Studies Program invites the campus community to the second panel in a special lecture series titled “20 Years after the Wall: 1989-2009,” commemorating the events of autumn 1989 and the opening of the Berlin Wall. The discussion will be held Monday, Oct. 26, from 7-8:30 p.m. in Plemmons Student Union’s Price Lake Room.

Speakers are:

Dr. James Barnes (Government and Justice Studies): “European Democracy Today”

Dr. Laurie Semmes (Hayes School of Music): “The Ukrainian/Bandura: A Metaphor of Freedom in Individual Expression and Collective Unity”

Dr. Nancy Love (Interdisciplinary Studies Program): “Skrewdriver and the Skinhead Scene: Where Anti-Communism Meets Neo-Fascism Before and After the Wall”

Global Studies is a unit within Appalachian’s University College. University College consists of the university’s integrated general education curriculum, academic support services, residential learning communities, interdisciplinary degree programs and co-curricular programming – all designed to support the work of students both inside and outside of the classroom.