A Multicultural Europe: How do we deal with the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo attacks?
9th March 2015, LSESU German Society, London
4:30 PM, CLM.5.02 (Clement House)
Dr. Alexander Gauland is a German jurist, journalist and politician. He possesses two juristical Staatsexamen and a Doctorate. Gauland is a leading politician of the right-wing AfD. Since the parliamentary elections in the state of Brandenburg, Gauland leads the AfD faction in the Brandenburger Landtag.
Sebastian Borger is a graduate of the Hamburg School of Journalism “Henri Nannen” and the LSE (BSC Econ in International Relations). He worked as a crime reporter for “Abendzeitung” in Munich before joining “Der Spiegel”, the biggest news magazine in Europe. Since moving to London, Borger has reported on British and Irish politics and business as well as European and international politics for leading German- speaking media, including Berliner Zeitung, Der Standard (Vienna) and Basler Zeitung (Switzerland). He is a regular pundit on BBC radio and the author of “Verzockt – Kweku Adoboli und die UBS”, published in 2013.
Khola Maryam Hübsch is a German journalist and publicist of Indian descent, who actively promotes the importance of inter-religious dialogue. Hübsch studied German and Psychology at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz and writes for many of Germany’s most prominent newspapers including Die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Die Welt and Frankfurter Rundschau. She has been described as “the face of muslim women in Germany” and regular appears on German television to discuss the role of Islam in German and European society.
Hans Kundnani is the research director at the European Council on Foreign Relations, where he specializes in German foreign policy. He is also an associate fellow at the Institute for German Studies at Birmingham University. He previously worked as a full-time journalist and was a Berlin correspondent for the Observer. He is the author of Utopia or Auschwitz. Germany’s 1968 Generation and the Holocaust (London/New York: Hurst/Columbia University Press, 2009). He studied German and philosophy at Oxford University and journalism at Columbia University in New York.