Book Panel: What Remains? The Dialectical Identities of Eastern Germans
What Remains? tells the story of the German Democratic Republic from the perspective of ordinary GDR citizens. It asks how people constructed East German identities that persisted after the official dismantling of the socialist state and shows that these identities diverged starkly from the “official GDR” version authoritarian rulers sought to impose on their citizens.
This event is co-sponsored by the German Department and the BMW Center for German and European Studies. Book panel with Dr. Andrew Demshuk, Political Science, American University, and Dr. Mary Beth Stein, George Washington University. Moderated by Dr. Katrin Sieg. Followed by light reception.
Dr. Joyce Mushaben is a Professor emerita of at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, where she was a Curators’ Distinguished Professor of Comparative Politics and also served as Director of the Institute for Women’s & Gender Studies (2002-2005). She is now an Affiliated Faculty member in the BMW Center for German & European Studies at Georgetown University.