Event

E.ON Ruhrgas scholarship programme, in cooperation with the Research Council of Norway, the Department of Political Science at the University of Oslo and NUPI, has the great pleasure of inviting you to a lecture and panel discussion at Blindern Campus:

20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall

– was Communism in Eastern Europe merely a parenthesis?

The session is open for everybody – no registration necessary.

Programme (10.00–12.00)

Welcome: Professor Øyvind Østerud, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo.

Keynote speaker Professor Claus Offe, Hertie School of Governance: “The post-Communist new EU member states: Stumbling towards democratic welfare capitalism”.

Panel discussion: Professor Claus Offe, Hertie School of Governance, Professor Arnd Bauerkämper, Head of the Berliner Kolleg für Vergleichende Geschichte Europas, Professor Frank Aarebrot, University of Bergen, Professor Miroslav Hroch, Univerzita Karlova, Prague.

Moderator: Director Jan Egeland, NUPI.