Event Category: Art & Culture
A Workers’ Emperor and a President Worker? Germany’s August Bebel and Brazil’s Luis Inácio da Silva in Comparative Perspective
Keynote address for the conference “Work, Class, and Social Democracy in the Global Age of August Bebel (1840-1913)
Speaker: John D. French, Professor of History and African & African-American Studies, Duke University (Durham, N.C.)
Moderator: Simone Lässig, German Historical Institute (Washington, D.C.)
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This event is free of charge and open to all.
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This event is sponsored by the Jackman Humanities Institute Program for the Arts, 2022-2023 on the annual theme of Labour
May 25, 2023, 6:15 pm
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7:45 pm
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