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
During the 1970s and 80s, tens of thousands of refugees from Africa, the Middle East and South Asia began seeking asylum in West Germany each year. While scholars have examined how the West German media, state, and society responded to … Read more
Patrick Fridenson is professor emeritus of international business history at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), in Paris, France, and has taught at a number of U.S. universities. His research deals with the strategies, innovations, ethics, structures … Read more
Frankfurt’s municipal government “Aryanized” the names of nearly fifty streets named after prominent Jewish individuals in a campaign that lasted until September of 1938. Given the fact that the Nazis had effectively managed to roll back high levels of Jewish … 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
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
A melancholic thread in assessments of the end of the Cold War, the triumph of liberal democracy and capitalism over “really existing socialism” led academics and public intellectuals to pronounce the end of utopian ambitions. Some West Germans, however, resisted … Read more
Shame is a well-known feature of German cultural memory of national socialism. Whereas research on cultural memory often concentrated on public and political representations, the personal feelings of shame frequently in family memories were ignored. The talk will explore expressions … Read more
The literary figure of the criminal child in German realism is framed not as a problem of rising industrialization and urbanization but rather as a problem of the emerging bourgeois family. Theodor Fontane’s Grete Milde (1879) and Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach’s Das Gemeindekind (1887) demonstrate … Read more
This presentation explores the rise in popularity of African American classical musicians in interwar Germany and Austria. Singing Lieder by Schubert, Brahms and others, they challenged audiences’ expectations of what a black performer looked and sounded like in the transatlantic ‘jazz age.’ … Read more
