Upcoming Seminars
Fall 2021 and Spring 2022
Because of the Covid-19-pandemic, we will hold the NCGS Seminars in the fall 2021 and the spring 2022 online and organize them via Zoom.
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 organizers KEVIN HOEPNER (kjhoepner@live.unc.edu) and KENNETH NEGY (k2551457@live.unc.edu) and ask them to be added this list serve or request the URL for the specific event. The NCGS organizers will take care of the technology of the Zoom Seminars.
For our NCGS Online Seminar Etiquette click here.
Fall 2021
Friday, 29 September 2021
UNC Chapel Hill I 4:00 – 5:30 pm I Online Seminar
HELMUT WALSER SMITH I Martha Rivers Ingram Chair of History; Professor of German Studies, Vanderbilt University, Department of History
Book Discussion: Germany: A Nation in Its Time – Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500–2000
Comments:
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- TERENCE V. MCINTOSH I UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of History
- KONRAD H. JARAUSCH I UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of History)
Moderation: KAREN HAGEMANN I UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of History
Co-Conveners: Duke University, Department of History, and UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of History, UNC Center for European Studies
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Friday, 22 October 2021
UNC Chapel Hill I 4:00 – 5:30 pm I Online Seminar
VANCE BYRD I Associate Professor, Grinnell College, Department of German Studies
Remembering the Franco-Prussian War in Nineteenth-Century Print and Visual Culture
Moderation: JAKOB NORBERG I Duke University, Department of German Studies
Co-Conveners: Duke University, Department of German Studies, and UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages & Literatures
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Friday, 12 November, 2021
UNC Chapel Hill I 2:30 – 4:30 pm I Online Seminar
Event of the new NCGS Sub-Series “CHALLENGING CONVERSATIONS”:
Roundtable: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Global Perspective
Roundtable with:
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- A. DIRK MOSES I Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor of Global Human Rights, UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of History
German Central Europe
- A. DIRK MOSES I Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor of Global Human Rights, UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of History
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- KORNELIA KONCZAL I Assistant Professor, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität Munich, Institute of Eastern and South Eastern Studies
East Central Europe
- KORNELIA KONCZAL I Assistant Professor, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität Munich, Institute of Eastern and South Eastern Studies
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- MELISSA TEIXEIRA I Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Department of History
Brazil
- MELISSA TEIXEIRA I Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Department of History
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- SHRUTI KAPILA I Lecturer in History, University of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College
India
- SHRUTI KAPILA I Lecturer in History, University of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College
Moderation: THOMAS PEGELOW-KAPLAN I Appalachian State University, Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies
Co-Conveners: UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of History; Center for European Studies; Carolina Center for Jewish Studies Carolina; Appalachian State University, Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies
Friday, December 3, 2021
UNC Chapel Hill I 4:30 – 5:30 pm I Online Seminar
KEVIN HOPENER I Graduate Student, UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of History
Regimental Afterlives: Habsburg Regimental Tradition in Interwar Czechoslovakia
Comment: CHAD BRYANT I UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of History
Moderation: TERESA WALCH I UNC-Greensboro, Department of History
Co-Conveners: Duke University, Department of History, and UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of History, and the Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and Eats European Studies
Spring 2022
Thursday, 20 January 2022
UNC Chapel Hill I 5:00-7:00 pm I Online Seminar
With the Konrad H. Jarausch Essay Prize Winner for Advanced Graduate Students in 2021
Young Scholar Writing Seminar: How to Write a Good History Journal Article?
Organization and Moderation: KEVIN HOEPNER I UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of History and KENNETH NEGY I UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of History
The paper will be distributed to the participants before the workshop. Please contact the organizers of the event.
Co-Conveners: Duke University, Department of History, and UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of History, and Center for European Studies
Friday, 21 January 2022
UNC Chapel Hill I 3:30 – 5:30 pm I Online Seminar
Seminar with the Konrad H. Jarausch Essay Prize Winner for Advanced Graduate Students in 2021
Welcome: LISA LINDSAY I Chair, UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of History
Introduction of the Prize Winner: THOMAS PEGELOW-KAPLAN I Appalachian State University, Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies
Moderation: JAMES CHAPPEL IDuke University, Department of History
Co-Conveners: Duke University, Department of History, and UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of History, Center for European Studies
Friday, 18 February 2022
UNC Chapel Hill I 3:30 – 5:30 pm I Online Seminar
Joint event with the German Studies Graduate Student Seminar and Workshop Series “(DIS) UNITY”:
DENIZ GÖKTÜRK I Professor of German, University of California, Berkeley, Department of German
Framing Migration: Seven Takes on Movement and Borders
Moderation: PRISCILLA LAYNE I UNC Chapel Hill, Department of German and Slavic Languages and Literature
Co-Conveners: Duke University, Department of German Studies, and UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages & Literatures
GRADUATE WORSHOP
Teaching against Racism and for Diversity with Professor DENIZ GÖKTÜRK
Thursday and Friday, March 3–4, 2022
UNC Chapel Hill Graham Memorial Hall I On Campus
NCGS —North Carolina German Studies Seminar and Workshop Series
German Historians In North America After 1945: Transatlantic Careers and Scholarly Contributions
Friday, March 22, 2022
UNC Chapel Hill I 3:30 – 5:30 pm I Online Seminar
KENNETH NEGY I Graduate Student, UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of History
The Transmission of Fascism: National Socialism in the Spanish Context, 1931-1945
Comment: TOBIAS HOF I Ludwig Maximilians University, Department of History
Moderation: TERESA WALCH I UNC-Greensboro, Department of History
The paper will be distributed per request to the participants before the workshop. Please contact Kenny Negy.
Co-Conveners: Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of History, and Center for European Studies
Friday, April 8, 2022
UNC Chapel Hill I 3:30 – 5:30 pm I Online Seminar
TERESA WALCH I Assistant Professor, UNC-Greensboro, Department of History
“Cleansing” Germany: Ideology, Space, and the Nazi Consolidation of Power
Moderation: ANDREA SINN I Elon University, Department of History & Geography
Co-Conveners: Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill, Departments of History