ANN: Spring 2023 Program of the North Carolina German Studies (NCGS) Seminar and Workshop Series – ALL SEMINARS ARE ONLINE

The North Carolina German Studies Seminar and Workshop Series (NCGS), an interdisciplinary and inter-institutional group of scholars in the Research Triangle of North Carolina, is holding its seminars online again via Zoom in the academic year 2022-23. We cordially invite anyone interested to join us for presentations and roundtables with local, national, and international scholars. The program for the fall term 2022 includes a number of exciting events, including this year’s “NCGS Challenging Conversations” roundtable, “#IchbinHanna: Gender, Diversity, and the German Academic System.”

For access to the Zoom seminar link, contact NCGS graduate assistant KEVIN J. HOEPER (kjhoeper@live.unc.edu). In your message, please include your institutional affiliation (if applicable). If you would not like to be added to our NCGS mailing list, please also indicate this in your message.

NCGS PROGRAM Spring 2022

More information on our NCGS Website: https://ncgsws.web.unc.edu/

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Friday, 27 January 2023, 2:00-4:00 pm (Eastern Time)

Konrad H. Jarausch Essay Prize Winner for Advanced Graduate Students in 2022:

YANARA SCHMACKS (Doctoral Candidate, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, Department of History)

“We always also did this for our children”: Motherhood in the GDR between Socialism and Opposition

Moderation:

—ANDREA A. SINN (O'Briant Developing Professor and Associate Professor of History, Elon University, Department of History & Geography)

Laudation:

—THOMAS PEGELOW KAPLAN (Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair in Jewish History, University of Colorado Boulder, Department of History)

Comments:

—DONNA HARSCH (Professor of History, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of History)

—JAMES CHAPPEL (Gilhuly Family Associate Professor of History, Duke University, Department of History)

Friday, 17 February 2023, 2:00-4:00 pm (Eastern Time)

NCGS Challenging Conversations Roundtable
#IchbinHanna: Gender, Diversity, and the German Academic System

Moderation:

—KAREN HAGEMANN (James G. Kenan Distinguished Professor, UNC Chapel Hill, Department of History)

Roundtable Participants:

—MURIEL GONZÁLEZ ATHENAS (Postdoctoral Research Associate, Ruhr University Bochum, Department of History)

—SEBASTIAN KUBON (Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Hamburg, Department of History)

—MARY LINDEMANN (Professor Emerita, University of Miami, Department of History; Former President of the American Historical Association)

—SYLVIA PALETSCHEK (Professor of History, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Department of History; Vice Rector for University Culture

Friday, 31 March 2023, 2:00-4:00 pm (Eastern Time)

PAUL JASKOT (Professor, Duke University, Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies)

New Approaches to an Integrated History of the Holocaust

Moderation:

—TERESA WALCH (Assistant Professor of Modern European History, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Department of History)

Comment:

—BARRY TRACHTENBERG (Associate Professor, Rubin Presidential Chair of Jewish History, Wake Forest University, Department of History)

Friday, 14 April 2023, 2:00-4:00 pm (Eastern Time)

ADAM R. SEIPP (Professor, Department of History, Texas A&M University; Associate Dean for Graduate Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences)

Amis: German Society and the US Army, 1945-1995
 

Moderation:

— ANDREA A. SINN (O'Briant Developing Professor and Associate Professor of History, Elon University, Department of History & Geography)

Comment:

—ELISABETH PILLER (Junior Professor of Transatlantic and North American History, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Department of History)

CONTACT:

Karen Hagemann (Speaker, UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of History), email: hagemann@unc.edu

CONVENERS:

Duke University: Department of German Studies; Department of History; The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Carolina Seminars; Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages & Literatures, Department of History, Center for European Studies