CCGES is pleased to host this lecture by Prof. Heinrich August Winkler, one of Germany’s most prominent and well-respected historians. Prof. Winkler’s lecture will be based on his most recent book The Long Road West in which he seeks to answer ’the German question’, or why Germany became both a national state and a democracy much later than either Great Britain or France.

Since 1991, H. A. Winkler has been Professor of Contemporary History at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Born in Königsberg, he studied history, philosophy, public law, and political science in Münster, Heidelberg, and Tübingen. From 1972 to 1991, Prof. Winkler served as Professor for Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Freiburg. He has been a German Kennedy Memorial Fellow at Harvard University; a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C.; a fellow of Berlin’s Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg), a guest of the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, and the Institute for Advanced Historical Studies in Munich (Historisches Kolleg München).

Prof. Winkler’s lecture is part of a North American speaking tour organized and funded by the Goethe-Institut.

Time: 2:00 p.m.
Location: W132, Schulich School of Business