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
Join us for the first TEAHS event of the fall. On Friday, October 22, 2021, Laurel Daen (U. of Notre Dame), will present her paper "Legal Disability and Civic Membership in Late Colonial America." The event will take place on … Read more
Join us for the second TEAHS event of the Fall. On Friday, November 5, 2021, Patricia Dawson (UNC) will present her paper, "'While My Heart is Straight: Changing Visions of Cherokee Sartorial Identity, 1794-1838." The event will take place on … Read more
On Friday, November 12 from 3:30-5, Dr. Blair LM Kelly, Associate Professor of History at North Carolina State University, will present her paper "Sarah At Home, Working on Own Account" on Zoom. To receive the pre-circulated paper and Zoom link, … Read more
Join us for our last TEAHS event of the Fall. On Friday, November 19, 2021, Megan Lindsay Cherry (NCSU) will present, 'Shooting the Sh*t about Androboros: British North America's First Play." The event will take place on Zoom. Please email … Read more
