Eric Roubinek (Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina Asheville, Department of History) Whose Peculiarities? Race in National Socialist Overseas Colonial Planning Moderator: Max Lazar (UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of History)
David Blackbourn (Cornelius Vanderbilt Distinguished Chair of History, Vanderbilt University, Department of History) The German Atlantic: Recovering an Invisible World Moderator: Konrad H. Jarausch (UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of History)
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION A Vanishing Century?: The State of 19th Century European Studies Discussion Participants: Cemil Aydin (UNC-Chapel Hill, Dept. of History, Global History) David Blackbourn (Vanderbilt University, Dept. of History, German Central European History) Chad Bryant (UNC Chapel-Hill, Dept. of … Read more
Max Lazar (Doctoral Candidate, UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of History) Swastikas on Jakob Schiff-Straße: The Aryanization of Jewish Street Names in Frankfurt am Main, 1933-1938 Moderator: Karen Auerbach (UNC-Chapel Hill Department of History)
Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination Wednesday, February 12, 2020, 5:00 PM FedEx Global Education Center, Room 4003, UNC-CH Adom Getachew (Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and the College, University of Chicago) will discuss her award-winning … Read more
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
