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DESCRIPTION:Paul Betts is the keynote speaker for the symposium Re-Forming 
 Modernism: Craft\, Design\, and Architecture at the Bauhaus. His talk\, “T
 he Shock of the Old: Some Reflections on the Bauhaus at 100\,” will take p
 lace on October 17\, at 6 pm. The centenary of the Bauhaus has spurred the
  dizzying production of new books\, biographies and exhibitions about the 
 international reach and general legacy of the twentieth century’s most cel
 ebrated design school long after its closure in Germany in 1933. However\,
  the broad internationalization of the Bauhaus has obscured the ways in wh
 ich it was fundamentally shaped by the hothouse politics of twentieth cent
 ury German history. This lecture by contrast will focus on the changing re
 lationship between the Bauhaus and German history more generally\, with sp
 ecial attention devoted to the career of the Bauhaus’s most famous designe
 r\, Wilhelm Wagenfeld\, as emblematic of the school’s legacy across twenti
 eth century Germany and beyond.Paul Betts teaches Modern European History 
 at the University of Oxford\, and is the author of numerous books and arti
 cles on Modern European and German cultural history.  He received his PhD 
 from the University of Chicago in 1995\, and has held visiting fellowships
  in Potsdam\, Munich and Paris.  His published work includes Within Walls:
   Private Life in the German Democratic Republic (Oxford University Press\
 , 2010\, pb\, 2012)\, which was awarded the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary
  History by the Wiener Library\, and The Authority of Everyday Objects:  A
  Cultural History of West German Industrial Design (University of Californ
 ia Press\, 2004\, pb 2007)\, along with seven co-edited volumes\, most rec
 ently The Ethics of Seeing: Photography and 20th Century German History (B
 erghahn\, 2017).   Currently he is completing a manuscript on Contest for 
 Civilization: The Remaking of Europe since 1945.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Keynote Lecture—The Shock of the Old
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