2009-2010
Time: 5:00 – 7:00 pm
Location: Institute for Arts and Humanities, UNC Chapel Hill, Hyde Hall
Fall 2009
13 September 2009
Claudia Koonz | Professor | Duke University, Department of History
The Muslim Kopftuch [Hijāb]: An Object, a Symbol, and an Image in Visual Culture
Introduction and moderation: Richard Langston | UNC Chapel Hill, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
29 October 2009
WORKSHOP: THE FALL OF THE WALL: TWENTY YEARS AFTER
Organization: Konrad Jarausch | UNC Chapel Hill, Department of History | William Donahue | Duke University, Department of History | Holger Moroff, UNC Chapel Hill, Department of Political Sciences
15 November 2009
Claudia A. Becker | Professor | North Carolina Central University, Department of Modern Foreign Languages, German Studies
The Concept of ‘Otherness’ in The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald and Heimat by Edgar Reitz
Introduction and moderation: Richard Langston | UNC Chapel Hill, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Spring 2010
29 January 2010
Frank Biess | Associate Professor | University of California, San Diego, Department of History
German Angst? Fear and Anxiety in Postwar West Germany
Introduction and moderation: Karen Hagemann | UNC Chapel Hill, Department of History
Co-convener: Research Triangle Seminar on the History of the Military, War and Society
21 February 2010
Philipp Stelzel | Graduate Student | UNC Chapel Hill, Department of History
The Bielefelder Schule: A Case of Americanization of German Historiography?
Introduction and moderation: Dirk Bönker | Duke University, Department of History
28 March 2010
Terence McIntosh | Associate Professor | UNC Chapel Hill, Department of History
Pietists, Jurists, and the Disciplining of the Parish in Early Enlightenment Germany
Introduction and moderation: Tom Robisheaux | Duke University, Department of History
18 April 2010
Tom Goldstein | Graduate Student | UNC Chapel Hill, Deptartment of History
An Internal Affair? The Biermann Fallout in the East German Writers Union
Introduction and moderation: William Donahue | Duke University, Department of Germanic Languages and Literature
22 April 2010
Jürgen Kocka | Professor | Free University of Berlin, Department of History
Fashion and Truth in the Writing of History: The Last 50 Years
Introduction and moderation: Konrad H. Jarausch | UNC Chapel Hill, Department of History