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Corinna Kahnke, an assistant professor in the Department of German Languages & Literature at Duke University will be speaking in conjunction with theNorth Carolina German Studies Seminar and Workshop Series. Within the narratives of Popliteratur, violence functions as a ground on … Read more
Seminar given by Mischa Honeck (German Historical Institute in Washington, DC) In cooperation with the Duke-UNC “Gender, War and Culture” Series and the Research Triangle Seminar Series on the History of Military, War and Society
In cooperation with the Research Triangle Seminar Series on the History of Military, War and Society
Seminar given by John Wheatley White (UNC-Chapel Hill & Duke University)
The publication of Hans-Georg Gadamer’s Wahrheit und Methode in 1960 gave rise to the most rigorous and significant intellectual debate in Germany since the 1929 Heidegger-Cassirer disputation in Davos. In tracing the boundaries separating hermeneutic and social-science models of inquiry, the Gadamer-Habermas … Read more
"World War I Centenary Project: The Causes of World War I" with Christopher Clark (Cambridge University) The North Carolina German Studies Seminar and Workshop Series intends on opening academic dialogues in order to raise awareness of the importance of Germany for the … Read more
James Chappel of Duke University: "Catholic Political Economy and the Origins of Christian Democracy" The North Carolina German Studies Seminar and Workshop Series intends on opening academic dialogues in order to raise awareness of the importance of Germany for the cultural … 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
Introduction by: NINA LEMMENS | German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) North America, New York Nina Lemmens is the Director of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) North America office in New York, which is responsible for the organization‘s activities in … Read more
