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)
Kiran K. Patel I (Professor and Chair of European and Global History, Univ. of Maastricht The Making of a European Alternative: Cooperation and Integration in Western Europe after 1945 In collaboration with: UNC Chapel Hill, Duke University and NC State, … Read more
Kira Thurman (Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Department of History and German Languages & Literatures). Singing like Germans: Black Musicians and the German Lied in Interwar Central Europe Introduction and Moderation: Annegret Fauser (UNC Chapel Hill, Department of Music) In collaboration … Read more
Julio Capo, Jr., author of Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami before 1940, will give a talk on the regulation of sexual and gender difference at the U.S. borders. Capo will provide a historical overview of the critical ways sexuality and gender … Read more
Maggie Reif (Graduate Students, Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies). Created Wild: Criminal Children and the Bourgeois Family in German Realism Introduction and Moderation: Priscilla Layne (UNC Chapel Hill, Department of German and Slavic Languages and Literatures) In collaboration with: UNC … Read more
"Walls" is a panel discussion and Q&A session on state boundary enforcement from a variety of different global spaces and times, including the Great Wall of China, Roman city walls, the Berlin Wall, Israel's border walls, and the US-Mexico border … Read more
Mark Hornburg (Graduate Student, UNC Chapel Hill, Department of History) The Image of the Ideal German Soldier in Wehrmacht Propaganda Introduction and Moderation: Konrad H. Jarausch (UNC Chapel Hill, Department of History) In collaboration with: UNC Chapel Hill, Duke University and … Read more
