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Comparing Right-wing Talking Points in Germany and the US
August 25, 2023 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
As fights over identity continue to play a major role in Transatlantic politics, what insights can we gain from comparing rhetorics?
Join us and find out more at the first of our annual TAM Fall Friday Lectures with CES Director Dr. Priscilla Layne!
Attend in person in FedEx GEC 1005 or join us via zoom!
Priscilla Layne
Priscilla Layne is Director of UNC’s Center for European Studies and Professor of German and Adjunct Associate Professor of African Diaspora Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and President of the American Association of Teachers of German. Her book, White Rebels in Black: German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture, was published in 2018 by the University of Michigan Press. She has also published essays on Turkish German culture, translation, punk and film. She recently translated Olivia Wenzel’s debut novel, 1000 Serpentinen Angst, which will be out in June. And she is currently finishing a manuscript on Afro German Afrofuturism and a critical guide to Fassbinder’s The Marriage of Maria Braun.