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Daniela R.P. Weiner (Doctoral Candidate, UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of History) A Democratic Imperative: Textbook Revision and Knowledge Production in Occupied Italy and Germany, 1943-1949 Moderator: Priscilla Layne (UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of German Languages and Literatures)

Bill Sharman (Doctoral Candidate, Duke University, Department of History) Refugees, Rights, and West Germany in the 1970s and 80s Moderator: James Chappel (Duke University, Department of History)

Carole Fink (Humanities Distinguished Professor of History Emerita, The Ohio State University) West Germany and Israel: Foreign Relations, Domestic Politics, and the Cold War, 1965-1974 Moderator: Malachi Hacohen (Duke University, Department of History and Center for Jewish Studies)

Post-Colonialism, Antisemitism, and the Holocaust: The Achille Mbembe Case in Germany This spring has witnessed heated debate in Germany about the campaign to disinvite Achille Mbembe, the South African-based Cameroonian theorist, as the keynote speaker at a music festival. In … Read more

The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression Speaker: A. DIRK MOSES (Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor of Global Human Rights History, UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of History) This presentation summarizes some main results of Moses’s forthcoming book The … Read more

“Third-World” Refugees, Rights, and West Germany in the 1970s and 80s Speaker: Bill Sharman (Graduate Student, Duke University, Department of History) During the 1970s and 80s, thousands of refugees from Africa, the Middle East, and Asia began seeking asylum in … Read more

Time of the Antechamber: A History of Waiting, 1500-1800   Speaker: Helmut Puff (Elizabeth L. Eisenstein Collegiate Professor of History and Germanic Languages, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) While exploring the epistemological difficulties in studying time, the philosopher Henri Bergson … Read more

Nineteenth Century Science Goes Global Speaker: Lorraine Daston (Director Emerita, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin and Professor, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago) During the latter half of the 19th century, international scientific collaborations of … Read more

The Sociology of Empire: German and Habsburg Theories of Multinational Statehood, 1848-1914 Speaker: Thomas Prendergast (Graduate Student, Duke, Department of History) Over the past twenty years, historians have dramatically reevaluated the Habsburg Monarchy. Whereas scholars once characterized the Monarchy as … Read more