January 2009

Date Sunday, January 25 2009


Code Unknown: Incomplete
Tales of Several Journeys

Time 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location Hillel Center, Chapel Hill
Type of Event Public Lecture
Title TBA
Contact Info Philipp Stelzel
Notes As part of the North Carolina German Studies Seminar & Workshop Series, Gabriele Weinberger (Lenoir-Rhyne University, School of Modern & Classical Languages) will present a seminar on Michael Haneke’s film Code Unknown (2002). The talk analyzes Code Unknown: Incomplete Tales of Several Journeys, a film by acclaimed Austrian director Michael Haneke. Code Unknown takes on the theme of immigration in a multicultural Europe.

Gabriele Weinberger is full professor in the School of Modern and Classical Languages and the School of Communication and Literature at Lenoir-Rhyne University. She has published intensively on German film, literature and Holocaust studies as well as numerous articles on a wide range of topics in (especially women’s) literature, film, culture and language.

Please register with Philipp Stelzel in a timely fashion. Refreshments will be served at 6pm; the seminar will begin at 6:30pm. For more information, please visit www.unc.edu/ncgs/seminars.html. Cosponsored by the Center for European Studies.

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Date Friday, January 30 2009


Michael Geyer

Time 1:30pm - 3:30pm
Location FedEx Global Education Center
Room 4003
Type of Event Graduate Reading Seminar
Title n/a
Contact Info Karen Hagemann
Notes Professor Michael Geyer (University of Chicago) will engage in a discussion with graduate students. The graduate reading seminar will be limited to 20-25 registered students from different disciplines.

Cosponsored by the Center for European Studies.

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Date Wednesday, Jan 28, 2009


Time 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Location n/a
Type of Event Radio Broadcast
Title From Flamenco to Pop:
Contemporary Music of Spain
Contact Info skidd@email.unc.edu
Notes

This broadcast of the Global Music Show will feature Rosario Colchero Dorado, PhD candidate in the UNC Department of Romance Languages. Hosted by Joseph Palis.

Listen locally at 89.3 FM or on the web at www.wxyc.org. Listen to past shows online at the Global Music website.

The Global Music Show is sponsored by WXYC FM and the UNC Area Studies Centers.

Date Friday, January 30 2009


Michael Geyer

Time 4:00pm
Location FedEx Global Education Center
Room 4003
Type of Event Lecture
Title Genocide, Massacre, and Warfare in World War Two in Comparative Perspective
Contact Info Karen Hagemann
Notes Professor Michael Geyer (University of Chicago) will give a talk about Genocide, Massacre, and Warfare in World War Two in Comparative Perspective.

Cosponsored by the Center for European Studies.