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
"The IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL: DEAD in the WATER or STILL ALIVE and KICKING?" with Ambassador Michael Bock, Berlin, Germany (President of INSTEX), Richard Nephew, Washington, DC (Columbia Univ., formerly State Department & NSC); Ellie Geranmayeh (European Council on Foreign Relations, London, UK); and Danielle Pletka, … 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
Registration link From their earliest days, American comics either reflected the consensus about the country’s national interest or did their part in bringing that consensus about (as in the case of America’s involvement in World War II). After the war, … Read more
China, Russia, Iran, Nato, Transatlantic Relations, Climate Change, Economic Dislocation and the future of the EU and Germany beyond Angela Merkel. Sigmar Gabriel in conversation with Klaus Larres Zoom Link
