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March 2019
The UN Sustainable Development Goals as a Global Action Plan – Significance for Germany and Great Britain
A presentation by Dr Dina Barbian, Institute for Sustainability, Nuremberg. As Ban Ki-moon (United Nations Secretary-General, 2007 to 2016) stated in 2012 at the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) "We don’t have plan B because there is no planet B!”. Now is the time to take the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) serious and to unite all efforts for people, planet and prosperity. Dina Barbian will start her talk with an explanation of the 17 United…
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William Blake’s Reception in Germany – A talk by Dr. Sibylle Erle, FRSA
Event held in conjunction with the Franconian Society. Invitation
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Helmut Schmidt and British-German Relations: A European Misunderstanding – Author Mathias Haeussler will talk about his newly published book
The talk will be in English Helmut Schmidt grew up as a devout Anglophile, yet he clashed heavily and repeatedly with his British counterparts Wilson, Callaghan, and Thatcher during his time in office. This talk looks at Schmidt’s self-proclaimed disillusionment with Great Britain in order to explore how and why Britain and Germany rarely saw eye-to-eye over European integration after 1945. But it also zooms out to reveal the remarkable extent of simultaneous British-German cooperation in fostering joint European interests…
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