Lecture: "Human Dignity and Freedom of the Press"
September 11, 2008, Washington DC, US
The German Historical Institute cordially invites you to attend the Ninth Gerd Bucerius Lecture: Human Dignity and Freedom of the Press - Lecture by Jutta Limbach
Jutta Limbach will deliver the ninth Gerd Bucerius Lecture of the German Historical Institute. She will speak on the topic “Human Dignity and Freedom of the Press.” The Gerd Bucerius Lecture series is sponsored by the ZEIT Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius. Professor of civil law at the Free University in Berlin since 1972, Jutta Limbach
was Senatorin für Justiz (state attorney general) for Berlin from 1989 to 1994. In 1994 she was appointed to the Bundesverfassungsgericht (Germany’s supreme court), where she served as chief justice until her retirement in 2002. From 2002 to 2008 she was the President of the Goethe Institut.
The lecture will take place at the Willard Hotel, Washington DC. To register for this event please send an e‐mail to events@ghi‐dc.org.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Willard InterContinental Hotel Ballroom
1401 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
5:00 p.m. Dessert Reception
5:30 p.m. Introduction ‐ Prof. Hartmut Berghoff (Director, German Historical Institute)
Welcome ‐ Dr. Markus Baumanns (Executive Vice President, ZEIT‐Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius)
5:45 p.m. Human Dignity and Freedom of the Press
Lecture by Prof. Jutta Limbach
Please RSVP by September 5, 2008 (acceptances only)
By phone: (202) 387‐3355 ‐ fax: (202) 387‐6437 or e‐mail: events@ghi‐dc.org
