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This past November 9 was the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall and, as a CSS student, I would say “the end of history.” Wesleyan’s German Haus marked the date by inviting three scholars of Eastern Europe and Germany, two from our oun Government department, to delve into the history and polemics of the events twenty years ago.

As an East European I decided to put my Wesleyan education to some good use back on the old continent this past summer and interned at a media NGO in Prague. The two pieces I published in their online journal Transitions Online approach the East-West divide from the very “Wesleyan” perspective of cinema : Velvet Cinema explores Central and Eastern Europe’s historical memory as interpreted in the last 20 years of independent film-making in the region; and Restaging a Revolution is an interview with an American film-maker, who has inspired a Czech crew and Czech production houses to make a feature film about how three youths defied the authorities in the Velvet Revolution of November 1989.

I hope you enjoy this “Eastern connection.”