As the turbulent decades before the Revolution of 1848 progressed, radical and liberal dramatists such as Georg Büchner, Karl Gutzkow, and Heinrich Laube wrote dramas that functioned as stand-ins for their liberational aspirations. Given the sneakiness with which these authors had to pursue their aims due to censorship, their dramatic works evoke what Heinrich Hubert Houben, the first major historian of German censorship, has elsewhere called “ein lustiger Guerillakrieg.” The authors pursued surreptitious strategies to smuggle a message into the…

With the passing of the Nuremberg Laws in 1935, Nazi racial ideology became the hegemonic discourse of international propaganda and diplomacy. In turn, it linked Nazi racial antisemitism to the Third Reich’s overseas colonial ambitions and portrayed Germany’s colonial policies as peculiar: different and more radical than those of its European neighbors. This talk seeks to challenge this national distinction by focusing on what the colonial organizations under the Third Reich were actually planning and with whom. By decentralizing international…

Guest Speaker: DAVID BLACKBOURN  I  Cornelius Vanderbilt Distinguished Chair of History, Vanderbilt University, Department of History Moderator: KONRAD H. JARAUSCH I UNC Chapel Hill , Department of History In cooperation with the UNC Chapel Hill Center for European Studies This event is part of the North Carolina German Studies Workshop and Seminar Series. Please visit these guidelines for information on weeknight parking on campus.

DAVID BLACKBOURN |Cornelius Vanderbilt Distinguished Chair of History, Vanderbilt University, Department of History Moderators: Max Lazar and Michael Skalski |UNC Chapel Hill, Department of History In cooperation with the Duke University and UNC Chapel Hill Departments of History This event is part of the North Carolina German Studies Workshop and Seminar Series.

Possible Participants: CEMIL AYDIN | UNC Chapel Hill, Department of History, Global History DAVID BLACKBOURN | Vanderbilt University, Department of History, German Central European History CHAD BRYANT | UNC Chapel Hill, Department of History, History of the Habsburg Empire LLOYD KRAMER | UNC Chapel Hill, Department of History, French History JAKOB NORBERG | Duke University, Department of Germanic Languages and Literature, German Studies See also: “Discussion Forum: The Vanishing Nineteenth Century in European History?” ed. by Karen Hagemann and Simone…

Guest Speaker: MAX LAZAR |Graduate Student, UNC Chapel Hill, History Moderator: Karen Auerbach | UNC Chapel Hill, Department of History In cooperation with the UNC Chapel Hill Carolina Center for Jewish Studies This event is part of the North Carolina German Studies Workshop and Seminar Series. Please visit these guidelines for information on weeknight parking on campus.

Guest Speaker: Carole Fink | Humanities Distinguished Professor Emeritus Emeritus Faculty, the State University of Ohio, Department of History Moderator: Konrad H. Jarausch | UNC Chapel Hill, Department of History In cooperation with the Duke Center for Jewish Studies and the UNC Chapel Hill Carolina Center for Jewish Studies This event is part of the North Carolina German Studies Workshop and Seminar Series. Please visit these guidelines for information on weeknight parking on campus.

Guest Speaker: CHRISTINA MEKONEN | Visiting Assistant Professor, Davidson College, German Studies Department Moderator: Priscilla Layne | UNC Chapel Hill, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages & Literatures In cooperation with Duke University Department of Germanic Languages and Literature and the UNC Chapel Hill Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages & Literatures and the UNC Chapel Hill Carolina Center for Jewish Studies This event is part of the North Carolina German Studies Workshop and Seminar Series. Please visit these guidelines for…