Conversations

Narrating War - Opening

Thu, Feb 20, 2014
Auditorium
6 pm
Free admission
Narrating War, Objects, Kosovo, 1999, © Sebastian Bolesch

With the curators Carolin Emcke (curator, war reporter and author), Valentin Groebner (curator, historian) and Bernd M. Scherer (director HKW)

Carolin Emcke
To the Biography...

Valentin Groebner is Professor of History at the University of Lucerne with main focuses on the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. His book Ungestalten deals in detail with images of extreme violence in media coverage at the beginning of the 21st century. He is also interested in the connections and interrelations between media coverage and academic research.