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        Sarat Maharaj

        art historian, Lund

        1. 2009

            1. Research Congresses
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            FORMER WEST: INTRODUCTORY NOTES
            Charles Esche and Maria Hlavajova
            1989!So what is it that happened in 1989?However naive this question might sound—as one would assume it a commonplace to know that this year, full of both aspiration and anguish, transformed our world forever—the meaning of the year 1989 remains strikingly unacknowledged in most of what we intuitively refer to as the “West.” Germany and (to some extent) Austria might be, for obvious reasons, …
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            Only Winners? No Answers, Just Questions at the First Day of the 1st FORMER WEST Congress
            Jeroen Boomgaard
            What are we doing here? I mean here in the so-called former West at the first congress on the former West talking about the former West. Where are we when we are in the former West and what has changed since the time when the West was still safely the West because the East was the East and the rest just was the rest? Can we start to get a grip on the changes that have occurred, and on the fact …
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            Small Change of the Universal
            Sarat Maharaj
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