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For an Overview of the NCGS Program in 2022-23 Click here
Click here for a PDF of the Spring 2023 program overview
We will continue to hold the NCGS Seminars via Zoom in 2022-23.
We will communicate the Zoom URL for each NCGS seminar before the event via our NCGS list serve.
If you are not on this list serve please contact the NCGS graduate assistants KEVIN HOEPER (kjhoeper@live.unc.edu) ask him to be added the NCGS list serve or request the URL for a specific event in the weeks before the event. He and MADELINE JAMES (mljames6@live.unc.edu) will also take care of the technology of the Zoom Seminars. For our NCGS Online Seminars Etiquette see here.
We a have a no-recording policy for all our events to create an open space for discussion.
Friday, 31 March 2023
UNC Chapel Hill | 2:00 – 4:00 pm I Zoom Seminar
Welcome and Moderation: Teresa Walch | Assistant Professor of Modern European History, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Department of History
PAUL JASKOT | Professor, Duke University, Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies
From an Integrated to an Intersecting History:
Digital and Analog Analysis of Architecture in Nazi-Occupied Krakow
Understanding the role of buildings in German-occupied Krakow cannot easily be connected to the systemic digital mapping and question of genocide necessary for understanding the war in Europe. The two questions not only operate at different scales, but also involve archival information of different substance, and (digital) methods with different approaches. At the core of this disconnect is the problem of working through the real intersection between culture and genocide, individual experience and systemic oppression, or the materiality of the built environment and the abstraction of the political-economic scale of the Nazi occupation of Europe. This presentation will show how we are currently using modeling of built spaces based on archival sources for analyzing building in occupied Krakow. At the same time, we will talk about the relationship between individual Jewish and non-Jewish victims in the spaces of genocide. Our goal, though, is to lay out how we might think about the approaches of digital visualization and the history of Nazi Germany together.
Paul Jaskot is Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University. He also the Co-Director of the Digital Art History & Visual Culture Research Lab. His scholarly work focuses on the political history of Nazi art and architecture as well as its postwar cultural impact. His most recent book publications include The Nazi Perpetrator: Postwar German Art and the Politics of the Right (2012), and New Approaches to an Integrated History of the Holocaust: Social History, Representation, Theory (with Alexandra Garbarini, 2018).
Comment: BARRY TRACHTENBERG | Associate Professor, Rubin Presidential Chair of Jewish History, Wake Forest University, Department of History
Co-Conveners: UNC-Chapel Hill: Department of History, Department of German & Slavic Languages, Center for European Studies || Duke University Department of History
CALL FOR PROPOSALS:
The Konrad H. Jarausch Essay Prize for Advanced Graduate Students in Central European History 2023
The North Carolina German Studies Seminar and Workshop Series is pleased to announce the fifth annual Konrad Jarausch Essay Prize Competition for Advanced Graduate Students. In recognition of the longstanding commitment to graduate education of Konrad H. Jarausch, Lurcy Professor of European Civilization in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, this prize serves to celebrate and cultivate outstanding new talent in the broadly defined field of modern Central European history.
The prize will award the best unpublished article manuscript, ideally based on the dissertation or a portion of it, by a current graduate student working in the field of modern Central European history. The recipient of this prize will receive an honorarium of $1,000 and an invitation to present the dissertation as a lecture in the North Carolina German Studies Seminar (NCGS), preferably in January 2024. This event will provide an opportunity for the winner to receive feedback from two commentators and a panel of leading scholars. The prizewinner will be encouraged but not required to submit the revised manuscript for publication.
The NCGS series was started in 2007 by an interdisciplinary and interinstitutional group of scholars in the Research Triangle of North Carolina, which is home to nationally and internationally recognized graduate programs in German Studies. The series has traditionally emphasized graduate education.
Eligibility requirements:
- Applicants must be enrolled in a PhD program at a North American university.
- They should be ABD and have finished the archival research for a dissertation in modern Central European history but must not have defended the dissertation before June 1, 2023.
- Graduate students who applied unsuccessfully before can reapply if they have not defended the dissertation before the spring term of 2023.
Requirements for the proposal:
- A statement of up to five pages that outlines the dissertation project and indicates its state of completion and a draft of the dissertation’s table of contents.
- A CV that clearly indicates when the applicant intends to defend or has defended the dissertation and includes the names of the advisors.
- An unpublished article manuscript, ideally based on the dissertation or a portion of it, of approx. 10,000 -12,000 words (excluding notes).
If you are interested, please send the application materials to Dr. Karen Hagemann (hagemann@unc.edu) by May 1, 2023, at the latest. Please do not hesitate to address any questions about the prize, the required material, and the selection process to her.
Prize committee: Dr. James Chappel (Duke University), Dr. Karen Hagemann (Speaker, UNC-Chapel Hill), Dr. Donna Harsch (Carnegie Mellon University), Dr. Thomas Pegelow Kaplan (University of Colorado Boulder), Dr. Adam Seipp (Texas A&M University), Dr. Andrea Sinn (Elon University), Dr. Teresa Walch (UNC-Greensboro).
North Carolina German Studies Seminar Series
An Open Letter: in Solidarity against Racism
June 6, 2020
Dear Friends,
We hope that this message finds you safe and healthy in these turbulent times in which different crises currently combine to show us, once again, the systemic and institutionalized racism of politics, economy and society in the United States. Along with the rest of the world, we have been outraged and deeply affected by the recent events. The killing of George Floyd and the violent response of the police against mourning and protesting demonstrators are appalling and troubling. We are therefore reaffirming our commitment to support the struggle against racism and anti-Blackness here and elsewhere on the globe.
The NCGS Steering Committee is committed to countering racism, anti-Blackness, and violence at home, in Europe, particularly Germany, and across the world. We aim to foster dialogue on, and broaden the visibility of resources about the history of structural racism, anti-Black violence, and many related issues.
Germany’s twentieth century history has much to teach us about the rise of Nazism and more current populist right wing movements and their inherent racism, as well as about the persistence of structural racism and the difficulty of combating it. It shows that the only way forward is to address and study, without any hesitation, the dark past—discussing it in public, even if this courts controversy, in order to teach not only students but also the broader public. This was and is a painful process for the racially discriminated, suppressed, and killed minorities: in twentieth century German history mainly, but not only, Jewish people. It is also painful, and necessary, for the descendants of the discriminating, suppressing, and persecuting majority, who are not only forced to confront the history of their ancestors, but also their own prejudices and ongoing, often unwitting, racist thinking and behavior. German history also shows that a democratic civil society, including critical media and very active grassroots movements, are needed to foster change. In Germany, as in the United States, this work is not complete, as right-wing populism, xenophobia, racism, and antisemitism are rising again.
We therefore strongly support the current movement of the Black community and their interracial coalitions in the United States whose members have been trying to come to terms with their pain, anger, sadness, and frustration over a struggle against racism and inequality that has persisted on American soil since the seventeenth century. Everybody who stands behind this agenda needs to support this movement and listen and learn from its proponents. Its calls can and should not be ignored any longer.
Sincerely,
On behalf of the
The NCGS Steering Committee
Dr. James Chappel (Duke University)
Dr. Karen Hagemann (UNC Chapel Hill) (Speaker)
Dr. Konrad H. Jarausch (UNC Chapel Hill)
Dr. Priscilla Layne (UNC Chapel Hill)
Dr. Jakob Norberg (Duke University)
Dr. Thomas Pegelow-Kaplan (Appalachian State University)
Dr. Andrea Sinn (Elon University)
The open letter as a PDF
CONVENERS of the NCGS SERIES:
Carolina Seminars I Duke University: Department of German Studies I Department of History I The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages & Literatures I Department of History and
CONTACT:
Speaker: Karen Hagemann, James G. Kenan Distinguished Professor of History, UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of History (hagemann@unc.edu)