This webinar is part of the series, “Revisiting Discourses of Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Iran and Diaspora: A Symposium in a Series of Panels.” Register in advance: go.unc.edu/Iran From their mundane to their sublime forms, love and desire have … Read more
This webinar is part of the series, “Revisiting Discourses of Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Iran and Diaspora: A Symposium in a Series of Panels.” Register in advance: go.unc.edu/Iran From their mundane to their sublime forms, love and desire have … Read more
Eugene M. Avrutin is a professor of Modern Jewish history and the Tobor family scholar in the Program of Jewish Culture and Society at the University of Illinois. He is the author and co-editor of seven books, including Jews and … Read more
Join the North Carolina German Studies and Workshop Series for a discussion on an international perspective of 19th century science. During the latter half of the 19th century, international scientific collaborations of unprecedented scale, expense, and degree of organization were initiated … Read more
Join the North Carolina German Studies and Workshop Series for a discussion on post-colonialism and anti-semitism through the case of Achille Mbembe. This spring witnessed heated debate in Germany about the campaign to disinvite Achille Mbembe, the South African-based Cameroonian … Read more
Join the North Carolina German Studies and Workshop Series for a discussion on the sociology of empire. Over the past 20 years, historians have dramatically reevaluated the Habsburg Monarchy. Whereas scholars once characterized the Monarchy as a “prison of nations,” … Read more
Join the North Carolina German Studies and Workshop Series for a discussion on gas masks in the Third Reich. The presentation will examine the ways in which the gas mask served as a technological site of discipline, conformity and complicity … Read more
Join the Center for Slavic, Eurasion and East European Studies and Maya Peterson, a professor at UC-Santa Cruz, on April 1 at 6:30 p.m. for a presentation on “Steppes to Health: How the Climate-Kumys Cure Shaped a New Steppe Imaginary.” … Read more
Join The Carolina Seminar: Russia and Its Empires, East and West on May 6 at 6:30 p.m. for a research presentation by Andrei Tcaceno. Andrei Tcacenco received his doctorate in history from the University of California Santa Cruz in September 2020. Andrei … Read more
Elena Trubina is a professor of social theory and philosophy at the Ural Federal University in Yekaterinburg, Russia, where she also directs the Center for Global Urbanism. Her book Gorod v teorii took issue with the Eurocentrism of urban theories and has … Read more
