German and European Studies in the United States

Changing World, Shifting Narratives

NEH Summer Institute

Lecture Series

The public is invited to attend the lecture series where leading scholars from France, Germany, Great Britain and the U.S. will discuss topics such as “Documenting the Holocaust,” “Black Germans and African Diaspora in Europe” and “Cultural Dimensions of the Estrangement between the U.S. and Europe.” 

Contact: Beverly Weber, bweber@complit.umass.edu 

Subject to change. Please confirm event times and locations at this website. 

Wednesday July 6

2:00 p.m.
Keynote lecture: Neilson Browsing Room, Smith College
Cultural Dimensions of the Estrangement between the US and Europe
Konrad Jarausch, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Center for Contemporary Historical Research, Potsdam.
 
Monday July 11
9:00 a.m.
Keynote lecture: Neilson Browsing Room, Smith College
Rethinking German Film History , Katie Trumpener, Yale University
 

Thursday July 14
4 p.m.
Lecture: Graham Auditorium, Smith College
Visual Documents and the Holocaust.
Eva Brücker, Information Center Historian, Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin.

Friday July 22
9:00 a.m.
Keynote Lecture, Sage 215, Smith College
Immigrant Intellectuals and German Feminism.
Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez, University of Manchester

Monday July 25
9:00 a.m.
Keynote Lecture, Neilson Browsing Room, Smith College
Tina Campt, Duke University .
Be Real Black for Me: Black Germans and African Diaspora in Europe .

Friday, July 29
1:30 p.m.
Neilson Browsing Room, Smith College
Panel Discussion (Sabine Bröck, Maria Diedrich, Tracy Sharpley-Whiting):
African-American Studies in Europe

Monday, August 1
9:00 a.m. Neilson Browsing Room, Smith College
Lecture :Thomas Lindenberger, Center for Contemporary Historical Research
Europeanizing Zeitgeschichte in Europe - and in the U.S.