Location: 569 Hamilton Hall
Date: September 11, 2012, 2012
Start Time: 4:00 pm
End Time: 6:00 pm

Richard Immerman is a Professor of History at Temple University.

“The U.S. in World Affairs: The Cold War & Beyond” A lecture series organized by the Department of History in co-operation with the Center for European Studies

Contact: Klaus Larres

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Ariana E. Vigil is Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill)

History of the Military, War, and Society: A Research Triangle Seminar Series, co-sponsored by the Triangle Institute for Security Studies

Co-conveners: Duke-UNC “Gender, War and Culture” Series, and UNC Department of Women’s and Gender Studies

HMWS Poster Fall 2012

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The Triangle Early American History Seminar is a group of faculty and graduate students at Triangle universities (including UNC–Chapel Hill, Duke, NC State, and UNC–Greensboro) who are interested in early American history.

John Sweet is Associate Professor of History at UNC–Chapel Hill.

TEAHS meets about once a month on a Friday at 4 pm at the National Humanities Center to discuss pre-circulated works in progress. Those wishing to be added to our mailing list should contact Kathleen DuVal at duval@unc.edu

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Part of the North Carolina German Studies Seminar & Workshop Series

Priscilla Layne (UNC–Chapel Hill) will be presenting her paper entitled “Leila Negra and the Struggle for a Black German Identity.”

Presented in conjunction with the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures at UNC–Chapel Hill.

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The Triangle Early American History Seminar is a group of faculty and graduate students at Triangle universities (including UNC–Chapel Hill, Duke, NC State, and UNC–Greensboro) who are interested in early American history.

TEAHS meets about once a month on a Friday at 4 pm at the National Humanities Center to discuss pre-circulated works in progress. Those wishing to be added to our mailing list should contact Kathleen DuVal at duval@unc.edu

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Part of the Research Triangle Seminar Series “History of the Military, War, and Society”

Mark von Hagen (Arizona State University) will be presenting his paper entitled “Civil-military Relations in Twentieth Century Eastern Europe.”

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Presented by the Program in the Humanities & Human Values

What can explain popular culture’s perennial interest in particular eras of the past? Why did millions of people regularly tune into the stylized rendition of Henry VIII’s court in the popular television show, The Tudors?  A noteworthy scholarly trend in recent decades has been a growing interest in the ways in which societies utilize the past as a cultural resource, as a repertoire of quotable designs and styles, as a vantage point from which to frame political and social critiques, as a source of identities, and as a refuge from present-day anxieties. Tatiana String will explore the modern cultural appropriation of the Tudor age and the enduring popularity of the Tudors, with particular reference to representations of Henry VIII.

Registration cost:

• $8 if you are a member of the UNC General Alumni Association (GAA)
• $18.00 for pre-registeration
• $20.00 at the door

Online registration is available at Spotlight on Scholars website: http://humanities.unc.edu/programs/spotlight-on-scholars-2/

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This event is part of the UNC Program in Sexuality Studies series, “Equality Matters,” an examination of the legal, economic, and social implications of same-sex unions.

Stephanie Coontz teaches history and family studies at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, and is Director of Research and Public Education for the Council on Contemporary Families.

Among her books are

• The Way We Really Are: Coming to Terms with America’s Changing Families (Basic Books, 1997)
• The Social Origins of Private Life: A History of American Families(Verso Books, 1988)

Read her article, “Gay Marriage Isn’t Revolutionary. It’s Just Next,” on line.

This event is free and open to the public.

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Part of the North Carolina German Studies Seminar & Workshop Series

Over the last two decades, the question of integrating Muslim immigrants into the New Europe has increasingly been pursued through a debate about the role of gender and sexuality in Islam. Despite their different starting points, the headscarf affairs in France, the sensationalistic coverage of honor killings in Germany, and the debate about the burqa in Britain have each, in turn, figured Muslim women as victims of a backward, oppressive, and patriarchal Islamic culture/religion. A common thread running through these controversies is the assumption that Muslim gender relations are an index or litmus test of Islam’s modernity and compatibility with European, liberal, democratic societies. In order for Muslims to integrate into the New Europe, then, they must reject their traditional practices and embrace the norms of “sexual democracy.”

Rita Chin is Associate Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and works in the fields of Modern German and European history. She is author ofThe Guest Worker Question in Postwar Germany (2005) and co-editor of After the Nazi Racial State (2009).

Presented in conjunction with the UNC Transnational and Minorities History Graduate Student Working Group, the Center for European Studies at UNC–Chapel Hill, and the UNC Series on Gender, Politics, and Culture in Europe and Beyond.

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Presented by the Program in the Humanities & Human Values

What such political songs as theInternationale, concert pieces like Aaron Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man, Eminem’s rap music, and Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries have in common is the fact that their sound world is intimately linked to the historic realities of war and revolution in the twentieth century. Annegret Fauser will discuss not only how these works are part of our recent histories, but also how they have become an intrinsic part of our historical soundtrack through constant media exposure.

Registration cost:

• $8 if you are a member of the UNC General Alumni Association (GAA)
• $18.00 for pre-registeration
• $20.00 at the door

Online registration is available at Spotlight on Scholars website: http://humanities.unc.edu/programs/spotlight-on-scholars-2/

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