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Note: This event has been canceled. Two Crises of Democracy: The Interwar Period and the Present featuring Christopher Browning 2:00–4:30 pm | University Room, Hyde Hall, Institute for the Arts and Humanities Panel Discussion and Audience Responses follows the talk … Read more
Join academics from UNC-CH and other institutions and centers for talks and panels on academic freedom. Please access the Facebook event page for updates and parking information. Schedule Thursday, November 8 5:30-7:00pm | Academic Freedom Under Attack: How Do We … Read more
The year 1968 was a momentous one in many spots on the globe, perhaps no more so than in Poland and Czechoslovakia. With a few exceptions, however, 1968 and its aftermath in these two countries largely have been studied in … 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
Institute for Arts and Humanities, Hyde Hall, UNC-Chapel Hill Public Lecture Gender, War, and Humanitarian Intervention in the 21st Century Kristen P. Williams (Clark University, Department of Political Science) Duke-UNC Gender, War and Culture Series
Institute for Arts and Humanities, Hyde Hall, UNC-Chapel Hill Public Workshop Gender, War and Humanitarianism in the Twentieth Century Frederick Cooper (New York University) • Jean H. Quataert (Binghamton University SUNY) • Ellen Ross (Ramapo College) • Glenda Sluga (University of Sydney) … Read more
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
Between 1969 and 1973, the § 175 of the West German Criminal Code, which penalized male homosexuality, was liberalized. This reform was greatly influenced by political considerations about how it would affect the West German armed forces—the Bundeswehr. Jurists, politicians … Read more
This workshop is devoted to an exploration of the centrality of empire to the involvement of Europe and the Americas in wars during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It will discuss wars over the creation and extension of imperial domains … Read more
In the fall of 1945, the British Military Government ordered the establishment of a transit camp in the town of Friedland to help the local region cope with the refugee masses crossing the nearby zonal boundaries. Although the camp soon … Read more
