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In every twentieth century war the U.S. military sent women entertainers to warzones. They opened canteens where soldiers could find a friendly face, performed on stage, played games and engaged in conversation, and brought a momentary reprieve from the war … Read more
Seminar given by John Wheatley White (UNC-Chapel Hill & Duke University)
In cooperation with the Research Triangle Seminar Series on the History of Military, War and Society
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
How nation-states laid claims on the bodies of soldiers and their wives during World War I is the theme of this lecture. It will analyze the experiences of war widows and their husbands comparatively to untangle the complex relationships between … Read more
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
James Franklin Williamson, a PhD Candidate in European History at UNC-Chapel Hill, will be speaking in conjunction with the North Carolina German Studies Seminar and Workshop Series. In the wake of both world wars, Germans faced the task of mourning enormous losses … Read more
Little is known about the existence of the German prisoner-of-war stockade in the mountain community of Hot Springs, North Carolina during World War I. The collective memory has nearly faded from view. This event illuminates the history of Hot Springs … Read more
Annegret Fauser is Professor of Music and Adjunct Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill. Her research engages with music in France and the U.S. in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Traditionally gendered feminine in Western culture, music plays … Read more
Molly Knight is Visiting Assistant Professor of German at Wake Forest University. From the 1960s to the present day, one viewpoint has occupied the center of the Pop movement and controlled Pop texts' portrayals of cultural upheaval and disillusionment: the disturbed … Read more
