Program 2011-2012

Location (if not otherwise announced):

UNC-Chapel Hill
Institute for the Arts & Humanities • Hyde Hall
Hyde Hall is located at McCorkle Place on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC map locating Hyde Hall).

Please register with Stephen Milder in a timely fashion.

FALL 2011

• Sunday, SEPTEMBER 18, 2011, 5:00-7:00 pm
  Michael Gross, East Carolina University
  Lady Gaga, Madonna, Thomas Mann, and Marlene Dietrich:
  The Triumph of Blonde and the Weimarization of American Pop Culture
  Abstract and Bio • Flyer
  (In conjunction with The Program in the Humanities and Human Values at UNC-Chapel Hill)


• Sunday, OCTOBER 16, 2011, 5:00-7:00 pm
  Thomas Pegelow, Davidson College
  Naming in the ‘60s and ‘70s: Protest Movements, Genocide, and Competing Memory Cultures in West Germany and the United States
  Abstract and Bio • Flyer
  (In conjunction with the Center for European Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill)


• Sunday, NOVEMBER 13, 2011, 5:00-7:00 pm
  Emily Levine, UNC Greensboro
  The Other Weimar: The Warburg Circle as Hamburg School
  Abstract and Bio • Flyer
  (In conjunction with the Art Department and the Center for Jewish Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill)


• Sunday, DECEMBER 11, 2011, 5:00-7:00 pm
  Konrad H. Jarausch , UNC-Chapel Hill
  Taming Modernity: European Experiences in the 20th Century
  Abstract and Bio • Flyer

SPRING 2012

• Sunday, JANUARY 22, 2012, 5:00-7:00 pm
  Sarah Summers, UNC-Chapel Hill
  Reconciling Family and Work: The West German Gendered Division of Labor and Women's Emancipation, 1960s-1980s
  Abstract and Bio • Flyer
  (In conjunction with the Center for European Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill)


• Thursday, FEBRUARY 16, 2012, 7:30-9:00 pm, Hanes Art Center Auditorium
  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
  For more Information see here.


• Sunday, FEBRUARY 26, 2012, 5:00-7:00 pm
  Sarah Thomsen Vierra, UNC-Chapel Hill
  From the Hinterhof to the Street Front: The Place and Purpose of Turkish Mosques in West Germany
  Abstract and Bio • Flyer
  (In conjunction with the Center for European Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill)


• Sunday, MARCH 18, 2012, 5:00 - 7:00 pm
  Michael Rowe, King’s College London
  The Cult of Charlemagne and Napoleon’s Domination of Germany
  Abstract and Bio • Flyer
  (In conjunction with the Department of History and the French Studies Seminar at UNC-Chapel Hill)


• Thursday, APRIL 5, 2012, 5:00 - 7:00 pm
  Rita Chin, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  Gender, Islam, and the Politics of Integration in the New Europe
  Abstract and Bio • Flyer
  (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)
• Sunday, APRIL 15, 2012, 5:00 - 7:00 pm
  Priscilla Layne, UNC-Chapel Hill
  Leila Negra and the Struggle for a Black German Identity
  Abstract and Bio • Flyer
  (In conjunction with the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures at UNC-Chapel Hill)

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