This lecture is part of the North Carolina German Studies Seminar and Workshop Series, co-convened by the UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University departments of history. During the Cold War, a competition emerged between East and West Germany over their political … Read more
The author of over 200 plays, August von Kotzebue (1761-1819) was one of the most prolific and successful writers of his day. Yet Kotzebue’s career was shadowed by controversy and bitter disputes, which culminated in his assassination by the student … Read more
In August 1846, Jacob Grimm wrote a letter to the Prussian king to encourage him to invade Schleswig-Holstein in order to protect the resident German-speaking population against attempts by Denmark to consolidate Danish rule over the areas. The philologist Grimm … Read more
Following the emergence of National Socialism, several German-Jewish photographers and filmmakers went into exile. A small number of them arrived in Mandate Palestine and greatly influenced the Zionist visual culture of the following decades. This talk focuses on two veterans … Read more
The typical image of the Mongol conquests is one of fur-clad warriors on horseback pillaging and plundering with swords and shooting their enemies with bows and arrows. While not completely inaccurate, it misses not only the complexity of the Mongol … Read more
Do you like video games? Have you ever played Call of Duty (CoD)? Then you have something in common with tens of thousands of young men terrorist groups have tried to recruit. Two seniors in the Department of Peace, Ware … Read more
The presentation will discuss the contribution of German communists to the revolution against slavery and the defeat of the Confederacy during the American Civil War. While the Lincoln administration and top Union generals developed a military strategy to restore the … Read more
