Professor Dr. Steffen Höhne (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena / University of Music Franz Liszt

Weimar), distinguished historian, political scientist, and German literary scholar, is the author and editor

of numerous books, including: Öffentliche Diskurse um Nationalität und Ethnizität im Spannungsfeld von

böhmischen Landespatriotismus und nationaler Desintegration (Public Discourse about Nationality and

Ethnicity in the Conflict Zone of Bohemian National Patriotism versus National Disintegration, 2000) as

well as the co-edited volumes Kafka und Prag (Kafka and Prague, 2012), Kafka im interkulturellen

Kontext (Kafka in the Intercultural Context, 2017), and Handbuch der deutschen Literatur Prags und der

Böhmischen Länder (Manual of the German Literature in Prague and Bohemia, 2017)

Organizer: Prof. Dr. Amy Colin, President of the City for the Cultures of Peace/Faculty Member,

Department of German, and affiliate of REEES, ESC, and the Jewish Studies Program at the University

of Pittsburgh. Event in conjunction with her seminar on Franz Kafka.

Sponsors: DAAD, City for the Cultures of Peace, and University of Pittsburgh: Department of History,

Department of Political Science, Department of German, Jewish Studies Program, Center for Russian,

East European & Eurasian Studies (REEES)/UCIS, European Studies Center (ESC)/UCIS, Center for

Governance and Markets, as well as the Nationality Rooms and Intercultural Exchange Programs.

For more information, contact: paxpeace@pitt.edu