The Presence of the Past
Professor of law at Humbold University of Berlin, Bernhard Schlink joined us at Boston University on February 2nd, 2009 for a lecture entitled The Presence of the Past. Born in Germany in 1944, Schlink served on the Constitutional Law court for the state of Nordrhein-Westfalen, Munster, from 1988 to 2006. He has also lectured at Freiburg, Bonn, Frankfurt, and at Cardozo School of Law in New York. Additionally, Schlink is a best-selling novelist and authored the novel and authored The Reader, which has been made into a film, as well as becoming an international success.
This event was moderated by Mark Feeney, who began his career at the Boston Globe in 1979 as a researcher. Since then, he has worked as assistant book editor, book editor, editor of the Globe’s weekly news analysis and commentary, and staff writer for the Boston Globe magazine. Feeney has been a lecturer in American Studies at Brandeis University since 2004. And in 2008, Feeney was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for criticism for his work on visual culture.
This event was co-sponsored by the Boston University Humanities Foundation, Brandeis University, and the Goethe Institut Boston, in cooperation with the literary journal AGNI, the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA), and Zephyr Press.
WBUR aired this lecture on February 15th, 2009.
