EFFECTIVE TEACHING PORTFOLIOS. Wednesday, Sept. 12, 3:30-5:00 pm. Hamilton 565. If you don’t already have a teaching portfolio in development, you very likely should. In recent years, the teaching portfolio has become an important document for many professional historians—and a … Read more
CRAFTING COVER LETTERS. Wednesday, Sept. 19, 3:30-5:00 pm. Hamilton 569. When search committees meet to make their “first cut”—taking a pile of applications and winnowing it down to the dozen or so candidates that seem most promising—they have to make … Read more
Sunday, 23 September 2018 Andrew Zimmerman (Professor of History and International Affairs, The George Washington University, Department of History) Conjuring Freedom: German Central Europe in a Global History of the American Civil War Introduction and Moderation: Noah … Read more
Interviewing Workshop Wednesday, Oct. 10, 3:30-5:00 pm. 565 Hamilton Hall. The further you go in the job search, the more interactive and in-person it typically becomes. In most cases, when search committees like to briefly meet with or at least speak … Read more
Claire Greenstein (Postdoctoral Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs) Political Cover or Moral Imperative: Reparations in West Germany Introduction and Moderation: Tobias Hof (UNC Chapel Hill, Department of History) In collaboration with: UNC Chapel Hill Center … Read more
Join us for a panel discussion and Q&A on the challenges of historical memory and memorialization from different sites around the world, including early twentieth-century France, early modern and postwar Germany, and contemporary South Africa and China. The purpose of … Read more
Ofer Ashkenazi (Director of the Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History and Senior Lecturer at the History Department, Hebrew University) Toward a Critical Zionist Vision: German-Jewish Photographers and Filmmakers in 1930s Palestine Introduction and Moderation: Karen Auerbach (UNC Chapel … Read more
Jakob Norberg (Associate Professor, Duke University, Germanic Languages and Literature Department). The People’s Property: The Brothers Grimm and the Tales of the Nation Introduction and Moderation: Gabriel Trop (UNC Chapel Hill, Department of German and Slavic Languages and Literatures) In … Read more
George Williamson (Associate Professor, Florida State University, Department of History). August von Kotzebue (1761-1819) in the Politics and Culture of late 18th and early 19th century Germany Introduction and Moderation: Karen Hagemann (UNC Chapel Hill, Department of History) In collaboration with: … Read more
Lorn Hillaker (Graduate Student, UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of History) Competing Images of West and East Germany in the 1960s Introduction and Moderation: James Chapel (Duke University, Department of History)
