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X-WR-CALNAME:German Studies Lecture Series: Jennifer Allen - Light in Dark 
 Times: Historical Lessons on Hope after Authoritarianism
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DESCRIPTION:Please join the German Studies Lecture Series talk entitled\, L
 ight in Dark Times: Historical Lessons on Hope after Authoritarianism by J
 ennifer Allen (Associate Professor of Modern European History\, Yale Unive
 rsity). \n\nAbstract\nBy most accounts\, the twentieth century was not kin
 d to utopian thought. Saturated by the violence of two world wars\, Cold W
 ar anxieties\, and a widespread sense of crisis after the 1973 global oil 
 shock\, hope for a superlative future seemed to wane. Though the ostensibl
 e victory of capitalism and liberal democracy at the end of the century of
 fered a moment of triumph for some\, for many it seemed only to yield comp
 lacency and cynicism. Using West Germany as its central case study\, this 
 talk reassesses this narrative about the fate of hope at the end of the tw
 entieth century. It argues that\, in fact\, West Germans remained remarkab
 ly committed both to imagining and to pursuing superlative futures and cha
 rts the mechanisms by which they bolstered this stance. Though the enterpr
 ise of realizing a better tomorrow conventionally appears as a project of 
 the left\, this talk also discusses the ways the right have employed the s
 ame devices to analogous ends. \n\nRSVP for talk by Jennifer Allen\n\nThe 
 German Studies Lecture Series is hosted by the Department of German Studie
 s\, Stanford University.
GEO:37.427405;-122.1697
LOCATION:Building 260\, Pigott Hall\, Rm 216
SUMMARY:German Studies Lecture Series: Jennifer Allen - Light in Dark Times
 : Historical Lessons on Hope after Authoritarianism
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/german-studies-lecture-seri
 es-jennifer-allen-light-in-dark-times-historical-lessons-on-hope-after-aut
 horitarianism
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