June 01, 2015

Leipzig Events: Weeklong city festival celebrates 1000 years of Leipzig with different themes, parties, concerts, lectures; Plagwitz goes music-wild Saturday night

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There's so much happening in Leipzig these days, in terms of party and arts and culture, that it's difficult to keep track. One example is the "festival week" going on right now celebrating 1000 Years of Leipzig - the StadtFestTage - with a different theme everyday based on groups of people. Tuesday's theme is

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Leipzig Events: Talk – “The Politics of Fear: Right-Wing Populist Discourses in Europe and Beyond,” June 4

Laying bare the normalization of nationalistic, xenophobic, racist and antisemitic rhetoric, Prof. Ruth Wodak builds a new framework for this ‘politics of fear’ that is entrenching the social divides of nation, gender and body in Europe and beyond. The result reveals the micro-politics of right-wing populism: how discourses, genres, images and texts are performed and

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