Colloquium - Dr Golan Gur

Dr Golan Gur (University of Cambridge) 

‘Beyond socialist realism: political aesthetics in the German Democratic Republic’

Golan Gur is a British Academy Newton International Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Born in Israel, he attended Tel-Aviv University where he earned his bachelor and master degrees. He pursued graduate studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and completed his doctoral studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin in 2013. He taught at Tel-Aviv University, at Humboldt University and at Berlin University of Arts. He was a visiting scholar at the Simon Dubnow Institute of the University of Leipzig and the Paul Sacher Stiftung, Basel.