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
“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
