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September 18, 2011

Michael Gross, East Carolina University

Lady Gaga, Madonna, Thomas Mann, and Marlene Dietrich: The Triumph of Blonde and the Weimarization of American Pop Culture

In conjunction with The Program in the Humanities and Human Values at UNC-Chapel Hill

October 16, 2011

Thomas Pegelow, Davidson College

Naming in the ‘60s and ‘70s: Protest Movements, Genocide, and Competing Memory Cultures in West Germany and the United States

In conjunction with the Center for European Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill

November 13, 2011

Emily Levine, UNC Greensboro

The Other Weimar: The Warburg Circle as Hamburg School

In conjunction with the Art Department and the Center for Jewish Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill

December 11, 2011

Konrad H. Jarausch , UNC-Chapel Hill

Taming Modernity: European Experiences in the 20th Century

January 22, 2012

Sarah Summers, UNC-Chapel Hill

Reconciling Family and Work: The West German Gendered Division of Labor and Women’s Emancipation, 1960s-1980s

In conjunction with the Center for European Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill

February 16, 2012

The 2012 Reckford Lecture in European Studies by the UNC Institute for the Arts and Humanities

Mark Mazower, Columbia University

“The European Union and the Crisis of Global Governance”

Hanes Art Center Auditorium

February 26, 2012

Sarah Thomsen Vierra, UNC-Chapel Hill

From the Hinterhof to the Street Front: The Place and Purpose of Turkish Mosques in West Germany

In conjunction with the Center for European Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill

March 18, 2012

Michael Rowe, King’s College London

The Cult of Charlemagne and Napoleon’s Domination of Germany

In conjunction with the Department of History and the French Studies Seminar at UNC-Chapel Hill

April 5, 2012

Rita Chin, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Gender, Islam, and the Politics of Integration in the New Europe

In conjunction with the UNC Transnational and Minorities History Graduate Student Working Group, the Center for European Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill, the UNC Series on Gender, Politics, and Culture in Europe and Beyond, the Department of History at UNC-Chapel Hill, and the Triangle Global British History Seminar

April 15, 2012

Priscilla Layne, UNC-Chapel Hill

Leila Negra and the Struggle for a Black German Identity

In conjunction with the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures at UNC-Chapel Hill