'culture of peace' recognized
Peter Demetz, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Germanic Language and Literature, recently received the European Science and Cultural Award in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
The award, presented by the European Cultural Foundation Pro Europa and by the City for the Cultures of Peace, honored Demetz's achievements as leading scholar in European literary studies and as seminal cultural mediator between the United States and Europe.
The award ceremony -- held under the patronage of Horst Köhler, president of the Federal Republic of Germany -- took place in the Kaisersaal des Frankfurter Römers, once the site of the emperors' coronations in the Holy Roman Empire.
One of the speakers at the ceremony was Demetz's former doctoral student, Professor Amy Colin of the University of Pittsburgh and the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard, who underlined his crucial contribution to the "culture of peace." She noted that, through his writings and courses -- in particular, German literature from Lessing to contemporary traditions of experiment -- Demetz introduced European cultures to generations of students at Yale. Jeff Arnold, representative of the U.S. Embassy in Berlin and its Consulate in Frankfurt, described Demetz as an "ambassador of Europe in the United States" and added that his publications and talks overseas also familiarized the European public with literary criticism and theory as he practiced it at Yale.
Another recipient of the European Cultural Award in Frankfurt this year was Wolfgang Leonhard, a prominent historian and expert on the Soviet Union who taught for many years at Yale.
The City for the Cultures of Peace organizes cultural events of this kind in cooperation with the Pro Europa Foundation in order to inscribe the idea of peace in Kofi Annan's sense into the consciousness of a broad public.
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