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
The Center for the Study of the American South will be hosting UNC PhD candidate Caroline Newhall to speak about her dissertation research on Black prisoners of war who were captured by Confederates during the Civil War as a part … Read more
GERMANY IN GLOBAL POLITICS: From the Cold War to 30 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall JOSHUA RUBENSTEIN (Harvard University) "Stalin and the German Question: from Failure to Tragedy" and HOPE M. HARRISON (George Washington University) "After the … Read more
"XI JINPING & Co: Tales of a New York Times Correspondent in China" JANE PERLEZ (Bureau Chief, New York Times, Beijing, China)
On October 4-5, 2019, UNC will host the North Carolina Conference of the American Association of University Professors State Conference. It features lectures by Rudy Fichtenbaum on "Neoliberalism, Politics and the Common Good," and Jasmine Banks (director of UnKoch My … Read more
