2008-2009
Time: 5:00 – 7:00 pm
Location: North Carolina Hillel Foundation, 210 West Cameron Avenue, Chapel Hill, NC 27516
Fall 2008
14 September 2008
Christopher R. Browning | Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor | UNC Chapel Hill, Department of History
Survivor Testimonies and Holocaust History: A Study of the Starachowice Factory Slave Labor Camps
Moderator and comment: Jonathan Hess | UNC Chapel Hill, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
26 October 2008
Kevin Kennedy | Associate Professor | Appalachian State University, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Peter Paul Zahl: German Exile Writer in Jamaica – A Video Documentary
Moderator and comment: Richard Langston | UNC Chapel Hill, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
9 November 2008
Frieder Günther | Alexander v. Humboldt Visiting Scholar | UNC Chapel Hill, Deptartment of History
Ordering, Shaping, Preserving. Ideas of Radical Social Order in German Right-Wing Intellectual Debates 1920-1960
Moderator and comment: Konrad Jarausch | UNC Chapel Hill, Department of History
Spring 2009
30 January 2009
Michael Geyer | Samuel N. Harper Professor Emeritus of German and European Histor | University of Chicago, Department of History
Genocide, Massacres, and War in Twentieth Century – Comparative Perspectives
In combination with a Reading Seminar at the UNC Chapel Hill, Department of History
Co-convener: Research Triangle Seminar in the History of the Military, War, and Society
22 February 2009
Michael Lawrence Hughes | Professor | Wake Forest University, Department of History
Reason, Emotion, Force, Violence: Modes of Demonstration as Modes of Political Citizenship in 1960s West Germany
Moderator and comment: William Donahue | Duke University, Department of Germanic Languages and Literature
22 March 2009
Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand | Associate Professor | Appalachian State University, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Performing Literature and/as History: The Stadtmuseum of Wolframs Eschenbach
Moderator and comment: Tom Robisheaux | Duke University, Department of History
10 April 2009
Isabel V. Hull, Cornell University, Dept. of History
Imperial Germany and International Law in the Great War, 1914 – 1918
Co-convener: Research Triangle Seminar in the History of the Military, War, and Society