Presenting is Peter H. Wilson, Chichele Professor of the History of War at the University of Oxford and Fellow of All Souls College. The Peace of Westphalia (1648) is widely regarded as a milestone on humanity’s ‘road to modernity’ by supposedly providing … Read more

Presenting is Guy Miron, Professor of Jewish History and Chair of the Department of History, Philosophy and Jewish Studies at the Open University of Israel. Until the Holocaust German-Jewish history was associated with Jewish enlightenment, emancipation and assimilation, new religious movements, … Read more

Presenting is Rory Bradley, Visiting Assistant Professor of German at Wake Forest University, who received his Ph.D. from the Carolina Duke Graduate Program in German Studies. The term “ghost” commonly refers to the lingering spirit of a deceased person whose existence … Read more

Presenting is Gabriele Weinberger, Professor of German, French, English, Modern and Classical Languages at Lenoir-Rhyne University in North Carolina. Etty Hillesum, a Amsterdam university student of philosophy and Russian literature, was a prolific writer during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. … Read more

This event is part of the North Carolina German Studies Seminar and Workshop Series. Based on six dozen autobiographies of the age cohort born during the Weimar Republic, this project looks at the ruptures of German history from below which … Read more

“Giftküche DDR” – the lead story of Der Spiegel in January 1990 about the GDR’s toxic legacy confirmed the worst fears about the environmental record of state socialism. Yet days before unification became official in October 1990, the only freely … Read more

This event is part of the North Carolina German Studies Seminar and Workshop Series. In Honor of Konrad H. Jarausch Thursday, 6 April 2017, 5:00 – 7:00 pm Keynote Speaker: Mary Fulbrook | University College London, Department of German "Reframing … Read more

The conceptual couple of majority/minority is viewed as a harmless way of identifying an arithmetic relationship. The idea of a dichotomy between majority and (Jewish) minority as a short hand to describe relations between ethnic or religious groups, however, is … Read more

After the Wende the former socialist model-city, Eisenhüttenstadt, experienced a fundamental transformation of its “housing problem” from an acute shortage to a surplus. Although many of the processes of transition have long since been completed, the social, economic, and cultural … Read more