Εκδήλωση στη Λευκωσία με θέμα: Πώς μια οικονομική κρίση μπορεί να προκαλέσει πολιτική καταιγίδα!

The Center for European and International Affairs

of the University of Nicosia 

invites you to the Lecture 

LESSONS FROM THE PAST:

FROM THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC TO NAZI GERMANY (1919-1933)

How an economic crisis bred a political thunderstorm

by

Anna Koukkides-Procopiou 

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

18:00 – 19:30

UNESCO Amphitheatre, Europa Building

University of Nicosia 

Chair: George Kentas 

Welcoming Comments:

18:05 – 18:15           George Kentas

                                  Assistant Professor of International Relations, University of Nicosia

Presentation

18:15 – 18:45           Anna Koukkides-Procopiou

                                  Historian

Comments and Reflections:

18:45 – 19:00           Andreas Theophanous

Professor of Political Economy, Center for European and International Affairs, University of Nicosia

19:00 – 19:30           Discussion

Abstract

Was the Weimar Republic doomed to fail from the start or could it have survived the Nazi threat had it not been for adverse economic conditions?  Why was the Republic able to overcome hyperinflation in 1923 but not able to survive high rates of unemployment in 1929? How did the economic become political? Why did Hitler come to power? Although the focus of this presentation will be on providing an account of events in Germany between 1919-33, speakers will attempt to draw useful parallels between past and present and examine differences and similarities between Weimar Germany back in the 1930s and conditions in Greece and Cyprus today.

RSVP 22841600, e-mail: cceia@unic.ac.cy