Joes Segal appointed as Head Curator of the Wende Museum in Los Angeles

Starting September 2015, cultural historian Dr Joes Segal will be the Head Curator of the Wende Museum in Los Angeles. This museum holds a large collection of textual, visual and material sources from the former Eastern Bloc during the Cold War and collaborates intensively with international scholars and artists.
About the Wende Museum
The Wende Museum was established to preserve Cold War history, inspire a broad understanding of the period, and explore its enduring legacy. The name ('Wende') refers to the collapse of communist East Germany in 1989 and the creation of a reunified German state a year later, a turning point in history. The term more broadly represents the end of Soviet communism and the beginning of a new epoch in Eastern Europe and Soviet Bloc countries, an era marked by political changes with profound social and cultural consequences.
Among many other things, the museum holds the inheritance of Erich Honecker, the last DDR party leader, as well as an important part of the contents of the demolished Palast der Republik in Berlin.

About Joes Segal
Joes Segal is a researcher and teacher at the Department of History and Art History at Utrecht University. He wrote his PhD thesis on German art debates during the First World War. His research focuses on German art history and cultural history, the cultural history of the Cold War and on visual culture.
Previously (in 2009 and in 2014/2015), Joes Segal has worked as guest curator and advisor of the Wende Museum. He will remain connected to the Department of History and Art History, as an affiliated researcher.