2010-2011
September 23, 2010
Alice Kuzniar, University of Waterloo, Germanic & Slavic Studies
“Romanticism: The Unexamined Life Force of Homeopathy”
In conjunction with the Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies
October 14, 2010
Monika Wienfort, Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Geschichte und Kunstgeschichte
“Constitutions and the Interpretation of Property in the German Kaiserreich”
November 3, 2010
Screening: Die Marquise von O… (1976), directed by Éric Rohmer
UNC Chapel Hill, Murphey Hall, Room 116 (In conjunction with ScreenArts Film and Media Series)
November 4, 2010
James Phillips, National Humanities Center / University of New South Wales, School of History and Philosophy
“Éric Rohmer’s “Die Marquise von O…”, or Marriage under Ambiguous Circumstances”
In conjunction with ScreenArts Film and Media Series
November 18, 2010
WORKSHOP: GERMAN REUNIFICATION TWENTY YEARS LATER
Keynote: Paul Nolte (Freie Universität Berlin/ UNC-Chapel Hill)
Round Table: Robert M. Jenkins (UNC-Chapel Hill), Richard Langston (UNC-Chapel Hill), Christiane Lemke (Leibniz Universität Hannover / New York University), Holger Moroff (UNC-Chapel Hill), Paul Nolte
Moderation: Karen Hagemann (UNC-Chapel Hill)
In conjunction with the Center for European Studies and the Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill
January 28, 2011
Michelle Moyd, Indiana University, Dept. of History
“Askari Ways of War: Training, Community, and Combat in German East Africa”
In conjunction with with the Research Triangle Seminar Series on the History of the Military, War and Society
February 14, 2011
Dr. Erhard Busek, former Vice Chancellor of Austria
“Is the European Union a Sustainable Solution?”
Nelson Mandela Auditorium, FedEx Global Education Center
February 17, 2011
Jonathan Wipplinger, NC State University, Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures
“‘Between Times, Nations, and Races’: Langston Hughes, Anna Nussbaum, and the German Translations of African American Culture”
In conjunction with the UNC-Chapel Hill Program in the Humanities and Human Values
April 1, 2011
WORKSHOP: THE HOLOCAUST IN EASTERN EUROPE:
“Race, Gender, and Property – The Experience of Nazi Occupation at the Local Level”
Keynote: Wendy Lower (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Towson University)
APRIL 14, 2011
Lutz Koepnick, Washington University in St. Louis, Dept. of Germanic Languages & Literatures
“The Aesthetics of Slowness”
In conjunction with the Program in the Humanities and Human Values and the Dept. of Communication Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill