The Janus face of late-totalitarian power

Oct

Wednesday, October 31, 2018 at 06:00 PM

Location

State Library Victoria
179 La Trobe St
Melbourne, Vic 3000
Australia
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Monash University's Arts faculty is delighted to invite you to the Louis Green Memorial Lecture, an annual public lecture on intellectual and social history in honour of the late Monash University historian Louis Green.

This year, Alison Lewis, Professor of German at the University of Melbourne, explores some little-known facets of the ‘softer’ exercise of power in the GDR and, in particular, instances of what Michel Foucault called a “micro-physics of power” in the last decade of SED rule.

The lecture will be presented on Wednesday 31 October from 6 pm to 7.30 pm at State Library Victoria. Admission is free, but bookings are essential via this website.

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