THIS FILM ADDRESSES ADULT THEMES AND INCLUDES EXPLICIT CONTENT. A second-generation Irani German, Parvis, works at a refugee shelter where he meets brother and sister Irani refugees and develops a tenuous romance with Amon as his friends attempt to secure … Read more
How is EU energy policy shifting in response to Russia’s war on Ukraine? How is the bloc adapting to and mitigating climate change? Join CES for a panel with scholars Stephen Gross, Christiane Lemke, Konrad Jarausch, Holder Moroff, Mark Vail, … Read more
Two Duke faculty, Annette Joseph-Gabriel and Felwine Sarr, and two visitors, Emma Bond and Max Czollek, will examine the intersections, problems, and productive intersections between archives, exhibits, and literature. Emma Bond is Professor of Italian and Comparative Studies at Oxford … Read more
Interested in joining the Russian Flagship Program? Attend our information session and learn about the program, career opportunities, study abroad opportunities, and more! Register here. The U.S. government designates Russian as one of the languages vital for national security and economic … Read more
Tone deaf or musical genius? It doesn’t matter! Join UNCRFP’s one and only Inessa Fishbeyn-Reeve for UNCRFP’s Song Club. Sing your heart out while learning the meanings of lyrics. Open to all levels!
Poet, activist, and cultural critic Max Czollek is a leading voice in current conversations about the nature of Jewish life in present-day Germany. Czollek holds a PhD from the the Center for Reseach on Antisemitism at the Technische Universität in … Read more
Join CES and NC German Studies on zoom for a seminar with Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair in Jewish History at the University of Colorado- Boulder Thomas Pegelow Kaplan on German-Jewish journalism during WWII. Featured speakers include: Moderator: Teresa Walch | … Read more
Interested in joining the Russian Flagship Program? Attend our information session and learn about the program, career opportunities, study abroad opportunities, and more! Register here. The U.S. government designates Russian as one of the languages vital for national security and economic … Read more
Jewish intertextuality typically refers to the complex relationship between biblical and rabbinic literature. In the nineteenth century, Jewish Romantics (better known in Hebrew as maskilim) considerably expanded their intertextual range to include contemporary philosophy and poetry. Yet, both the style … Read more
Three business representatives from German corporations with significant presence in the US (Siemens, Merck and BASF) will meet to discuss the state of German-American relations in business, science and technology. A roundtable discussion will be followed by a lecture on … Read more
Come and recite a poem in your favorite Germanic or Slavic language. Listen to your friends performs poems that will blow your mind away! Back by popular demand, GSLL is hosting Poetry Night for spring semester 2024. Don’t miss out!
Join CES and NC German Studies for a zoom roundtable on the state of German Studies in the US. The shrinking number of tenure-track jobs and the decline of undergraduate and graduate programs in German Studies and German History in … Read more
Fiction as History, History as Fiction: a Novel about Nazi Looted Art Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professor 2023-2024 Brett Ashley Kaplan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign What happens when different displaced people come into convergence with each other? This talk will … Read more
On April 18, 2024, join the CES community for a book talk with esteemed author and historian Konrad Jarausch on his latest work, The Burden of German History: A Transatlantic Life. The event will feature a presentation from the author … Read more
Everything Was Forever Until It Exploded: Apocalyptic Futures in Late-Soviet Science Fiction From Leonid Brezhnev's pharmacological bids for corporeal immortality, to the continued display of Lenin's (un)dead body in the Mausoleum, official culture in the late Soviet period was at … Read more
