As the turbulent decades before the Revolution of 1848 progressed, radical and liberal dramatists such as Georg Büchner, Karl Gutzkow and Heinrich Laube wrote dramas that functioned as stand-ins for their liberational aspirations. Given the sneakiness with which these authors … Read more
As the turbulent decades before the Revolution of 1848 progressed, radical and liberal dramatists such as Georg Büchner, Karl Gutzkow and Heinrich Laube wrote dramas that functioned as stand-ins for their liberational aspirations. Given the sneakiness with which these authors … Read more
With the passing of the Nuremberg Laws in 1935, Nazi racial ideology became the hegemonic discourse of international propaganda and diplomacy. In turn, it linked Nazi racial antisemitism to the Third Reich’s overseas colonial ambitions and portrayed Germany’s colonial policies … Read more
Atlantic history, the history of the great interactions that took place between Europe, Africa and the Americas, has emerged since the 1980s as a dynamic field of study that has generated its own programs, textbooks, essay collections, book prizes and … Read more
This roundtable explores from multiple perspectives the often-stated impression that the nineteenth century is “vanishing” from German and European history. It asks how one can explain this trend, what consequences it has for the development of historiography and public historical … Read more
Note: This event has been canceled. It will be included in the 2020-2021 NCGS program. As part of the the North Carolina German Studies Workshop and Seminar Series, the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies and the Duke Center for Jewish Studies … Read more
Join the North Carolina German Studies and Workshop Series for a discussion on German racial exceptionalism. In the second year of World War I, the German-Jewish chemist Fritz Haber supervised the first deployment of industrialized chemical weapons against French colonial … Read more
Holocaust history has experienced its own “spatial turn” in the past decade, and important studies have examined the role space played in ethnic cleansing and genocide in central Europe during the 1940s. This project shifts the analytic focus from wartime … Read more
Over the past two decades, scholars, among them many historians, have been debating the relationships among the Holocaust, colonialism, and other genocides. In May 2021, Dirk Moses, then UNC’s Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor of Global Human Rights History, injected … Read more
Till Knobloch (PhD Candidate, UNC Chapel Hill, Dept. of History) will present on The ‘Manufactured Crisis.’ The Outbreak of World War II in Europe.Comment: Chad Bryant (Associate Professor, UNC-Chapel Hill, Dept. of History)For the URL please contact the NCGS graduate … Read more
