Events & Lectures
Thursday, April 25, 2019
Rubenstein 249 Duke West Campus
A rich and engaging talk with Professor Joseph Vogl, German philosopher who has written on literature, culture and media. He is Professor of Modern German Literature, Literary, Media and Cultural Studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin Response given by Professor Giovanni Zanalda, Director,... more
Saturday, April 13, 2019 to Monday, April 15, 2019
Moments of Enlightenment: German Jewish Interactions Symposium in Honor of Jonathan Hess One way to encounter misrepresentations and stereotypes—and to understand its meaning—is to study history and culture. This was one of the scholarly goals of the late Jonathan M. Hess, who led the Carolina... more
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
UNC - Toy Lounge
"Signature of the Crisis: Friedrich Schlegel's Religionspolitik" more details forthcoming!
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
UNC Campus - Toy Lounge Dey Hall
"The Book, Cold Hard Cash, and the Mirror: Abstraction and Itinerancy in Ulrich Peltzer’s Littérature Engagée" – Response by Graduate Student Leonie Wilms
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
UNC - Toy Lounge
" Luther in Yiddish" more details forthcoming!
Tuesday, November 27, 2018
UNC - Toy Lounge
"Von diesem Augenblicke an bekam der große Wald eine Seele": Wilhelm Raabe's Else von der Tanne and the Realist Fairytale Child more details forthcoming!
Thursday, November 1, 2018 to Friday, November 2, 2018
Material Cuts: Scherenschnitte, Collage, and the Romantic Fragment Catriona MacLeod with a response by Peter Nisbet Romantic authors and visual artists cut, glue, stain, and recycle paper in a century that has come to be known as "das papierne Zeitalter." They generate paper cuts, collages, and ink... more
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
UNC - Toy Lounge
"Between Function and Fantasy: August von Kotzebue, the Jena Romantics, and the Modulation of German Dramatic Satire around 1800" more details forthcoming!
Tuesday, October 9, 2018 to Thursday, October 11, 2018
A series of events with visiting faculty from Tübingen including Dr. Jörg Robert & Dr. Astrid Dröse The lecture in German by Professor Jörg Robert is taking place on Thursday October 11 at 7:30 in Toy Lounge, and is entitled: „Abgrund der Freiheit – Mythos der Vernunft. Kant interpretiert... more
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
UNC- Toy Lounge
"Normativity in Early Marx" more details forthcoming!
Sunday, September 9, 2018
Nelson Music Room - East Duke Building
Romantic HighsSongs of Love & Loss by Strauss, Wolf, and Marx
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Pink Parlors - East Duke Campus
Speaker: Christoph Schaub - " Making Proletarian Worlds: Internationalist World Literature and Montage Aesthetics in the Republic"
Friday, March 23, 2018
Dey Hall 314
There will be a seminar designed for graduate students given by both Eckart Goebel and Leif Weatherby. More information will be forthcoming. Stay tuned!
Thursday, March 22, 2018
Dey Hall - Toy Lounge
Monday, March 5, 2018
Rubenstein 249 - West Campus
Speaker: Priscilla Layne - "Wenn eine Eisbärin spräche, könnten wir verstehen?: Animals, Fantasy, Race and Gender in Intercultural Writing"
Friday, March 2, 2018
Duke Campus
This talk will be organized by Rob Mitchell's Center for Interdisciplinary Studies and Cultural Theory and co-sponsored by Duke German *more information forthcoming *Time subject to change
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Pink Parlors - East Duke Campus
Speaker: Eric Downing - " Walter Benjamin: Child Reading"
Friday, February 16, 2018
Dey Hall 303
This workshop is for faculty, graduate students and select undergraduates; designed to familiarize students with current issues in German cinema and gender studies
Thursday, February 15, 2018
Dey Hall 305
Friday, February 2, 2018
Allen 314 - Duke Campus
Dr. Weatherby is author of Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ: German Romanticism between Leibniz and Marx (Fordham UP, 2016). This talk is part of his current research project on relationships between German Idealism and cybernetics. This talk is sponsored by Duke’s Center for Interdisciplinary... more
Monday, November 27, 2017
UNC - Dey Hall 413
From the Book to the Screen," & Opus Alchymicum" (from: The Fire and the Tale (2017) Access to the readings is available online (password = Agamben) via Hightail. The GSLL Theory Reading Group is an informal, relaxed setting for reading and discussing theoretical texts of utility for the... more
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Pink Parlors - East Duke Campus
Speaker: Christina Weiler - " Johann Gottfried Herder and Metaphors of Environmental Empathy"
Friday, November 10, 2017
IAH (Institute for Arts & Humanities), Seminar Room - UNC Campus
Françoise Meltzer Workshop Moderated by Aleksandra Prica
Thursday, November 9, 2017
Rubenstein 153
This talk will focus on the destruction of Germany by the Allies, seen in heretofore unpublished photographs taken in 1945-6. The talk will pose the question, among others, of how the gaze is constructed to view these photos of disaster, and of the enemy, seventy years later. Francoise Meltzer,... more
Thursday, November 2, 2017
Carpenter Conference Room - Perkins 249
Religion & Philosophy in Germany: 1918 - 1933 Interdisciplinary Symposium Symposium Précis * This event will begin at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, November 2nd and run until 5:00 pm and begin at 9:00 am on Friday, November 3rd .
Monday, October 30, 2017
UNC - Dey Hall - 413
"Mysterium Burocraticum" & "Parable and Kingdom" (from: The Fire and the Tale (2017) Access to the readings is available online (password = Agamben) via Hightail. The GSLL Theory Reading Group is an informal, relaxed setting for reading and discussing theoretical texts of utility for the... more
Thursday, October 26, 2017
Rubenstein 349 - Duke West Campus
Guest Lecturer: Rita Chin, Professor, History Department - University of Michigan "Europe and the Crisis of Multiculturalism" Rita Chin
Monday, October 16, 2017
Dey Hall - Toy Lounge - UNC Campus
Academic lecture and film discussion with Gregor Thuswaldner
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Pink Parlors - East Duke Campus
Speaker: Kyung L. Gagum - " The Intertextuality in Fritz Lang's Metropolis and the Japanese Animation Metropolis"Century"
Monday, September 25, 2017
UNC-Dey Hall - 413
The GSLL Theory Group will meet three times this semester to discuss the work of Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. Well known throughout the humanities for his 1995 book on power and bare life entitled Homo sacer, the reading group will instead engage Agamben’s more recent essays on literary... more
Friday, September 22, 2017 to Thursday, September 28, 2017
Germany Making Choices : A celebration and examination of the German elections With its focus on the upcoming federal elections in Germany, our Campus Weeks (Sept. 22nd - 28th 2017) will include an election viewing party, voting booth, and a keynote lecture by Minister Helga Barth Director of the... more
Friday, September 15, 2017
East Duke Pink Parlors
Guest Lecturer: Vittorio Hösle, Paul Kimball Professor of Arts and Lecturers - Notre Dame The Ethiics of Migration: Moral principles, natural law, and politics in dealing with refugees Vittorio Hösle
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Pink Parlors - East Duke Campus
Speaker: Stefani Engelstein: " The East Within Muslims, Jews and Race in the Long Nineteenth Century"
Monday, April 24, 2017
UNC - Dey Hall 314
The Reading Group will consider over the course of four meetings only chapters ten through fourteen from the third and final section entitled “Totalitarianism.” (Those interested are welcome to read sections one [“Antisemitism"] and two [“Imperialism"] prior to the first meeting.) Access to the ... more
Monday, April 17, 2017
Rubenstein 249 - Duke University
Leslie Adelson - Director of the Institute for German Cultural Studies and Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of German Studies at Cornell University. Lecture Topic: Making Time for Other Lives: Perspectives on Hope and Futurity in Narrative Form on Alexander Kluge's 'Saturday in Utopia' German... more
Friday, April 14, 2017 to Saturday, April 15, 2017
UNC (Toy Lounge) and Duke (119 Old Chem)
From the ancient Greek zṓnē for girdle or belt, “zone“ advanced over the course of the twentieth century in both English and German to become a ubiquitous signifier for geographic, socio-political, and scientific spaces. What, however, is an aesthetic zone? Is it synonymous with the text? What... more
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Rubenstein 249
Till Dembeck - Université du Luxembourg Topic: "Literature as Linguistic Migration" MULTILINGUALISM AS MIGRATION All languages have “immigration laws” and regulate how foreign words, phrases, or structures may be used. But how does literature relate to these laws and what can it teach us about... more
Friday, March 31, 2017
Dey Hall - Toy Lounge
Speaker: Patrick Lang: "Radiation in the home - Between Victim and Sacrifice in the Atomic Radio Play"
Friday, March 24, 2017 to Saturday, March 25, 2017
Friedl Bldg. - 115 - Duke University
Adorno Conference
Monday, March 20, 2017
UNC - Dey Hall 314
The Reading Group will consider over the course of four meetings only chapters ten through fourteen from the third and final section entitled “Totalitarianism.” (Those interested are welcome to read sections one [“Antisemitism"] and two [“Imperialism"] prior to the first meeting.) Access to the... more
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
Dey Hall - Toy Lounge
Speaker: Thomas Pfau: " The Image as Eschaton: Visuality and Narrative in Thomas Mann"
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Smith Warehouse, Bay 4, C105
“Blumenberg and Adorno: Non-Conceptuality and the Bildverbot”. Respondent: Richard Langston, Associate Professor of German, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Monday, February 20, 2017
UNC - Dey Hall 314
The Reading Group will consider over the course of four meetings only chapters ten through fourteen from the third and final section entitled “Totalitarianism.” (Those interested are welcome to read sections one [“Antisemitism"] and two [“Imperialism"] prior to the first meeting.) Access to the ... more
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Dey Hall - Toy Lounge
Speaker: Aleksandra Prica: "Manipulating Time - The Aesthetics of Dealing with Vanity"
Event date to be determined
Nelson Music Room
Songs and pieces for solo piano including capriccios, intermezzos, and rhapsodies. The concert is followed by a reception in the East Duke parlors that will include a discussion/Q&A with the artists. Sandra Cotton is a member of the music faculty at Duke University, where she teaches studio... more
Event date to be determined
Dey Hall - Dey Hall 314
The Reading Group will consider over the course of four meetings only chapters ten through fourteen from the third and final section entitled “Totalitarianism.” (Those interested are welcome to read sections one [“Antisemitism"] and two [“Imperialism"] prior to the first meeting.) Access to the ... more
Event date to be determined
Dey Hall - Room 413
“An Anthropological Approach to the Contemporary Significance of Rhetoric” (pp. 429-457) Access to the readings can be found here The Reading Group is an informal, relaxed setting for reading and discussing theoretical texts of utility for the study of literature, film and culture.... more
Event date to be determined
To foster the research community of local faculty and graduate students interested in Romanticism in British and German literatures (as well, potentially, as Romantic movements in other national literatures), Stefani Engelstein (German) and Rob Mitchell (English) are organizing a Romanticism... more
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Dey Hall - Toy Lounge
Speaker: Inga Pollmann: "The Forces of the Milieu: Angela Schanelee's Marseille and the Heritage of Michelangelo Antonioni"
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German Campus Week November 14-18 The Four-day Program for German Campus Week: Monday, November 14th at 5:30 PM, Fed Ex Building Rm 1009 A Conversation with Afro-German Playwright Olivia Wenzel with clips from her plays "Corn in Germany and Other Galaxies" and "We are the Universe" Tuesday... more
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Dey Hall - Toy Lounge
Monday, November 14th at 5:30 PM, Fed Ex Building Rm 1009 A Conversation with Afro-German Playwright Olivia Wenzel with clips from her plays "Corn in Germany and Other Galaxies" and "We are the Universe" Olivia Wenzel was born in 1985 in Weimar. She studied Kulturwissenschaften and aesthetic praxis... more
Event date to be determined
Fed Ex. Global Center - Room 3200
"Homestory Deutschland," A photo exhibit about Black German history. The photos will be displayed in the Fed Ex Global Center, Rm 3200.
Event date to be determined
Dey Hall - Toy Lounge
Niklaus Largier is the Sidney and Margaret Ancker Professor of German and Comparative Literature. He is affiliated with UC Berkeley’s Programs in Medieval Studies and Religious Studies, the Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory, the Designated Emphasis in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, and... more
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Carr 103 - Duke East Campus
Moritz Schuller: "Germany and the Refugees." In 2015, Germany took in over one million refugees. How has this changed the social and political landscape of Germany and of Europe? Moritz Schuller is a political editor for the Berlin newspaper Der Tagesspiegel Moritz Schuller
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Dey Hall - Room 413
"To Bring Myth to an End” (from Work on Myth) (pp. 109-140) The Reading Group is an informal, relaxed setting for reading and discussing theoretical texts of utility for the study of literature, film and culture. Participation in the Reading Group is open to graduate students and faculty.... more
Event date to be determined
Dey Hall - Toy Lounge
Speaker: Claire Scott: "Childless Mother: Constructing and Deconstructing Tropes of Pornography and Melodrama in Elfriede Jelinek's Lust"
Event date to be determined
Rubenstein 349 - Duke University
Dr. Stefan Buchwald, Director of the German Information Center, will be giving a short presentation and Q&A session on the perceptions of Germany within the American imagination, based on the findings of a survey conducted by the German Information Center in 2016. Dr. Stefan Buchwald
Event date to be determined
UNC - Dey Hall 314
The Theory Reading Group will reconvene next month, this time on the other side of the Rhine in order to consider three works by philosopher Hans Blumenberg. Perhaps best known for his philosophical treatise on the metaphor (Paradigms for a Metaphorology) from 1960, Blumenberg later expanded his... more
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Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse, FHI
Interfacing Literary and Cultural Studies with the Cognitive Sciences, or: Re-cognizing Henry James The paper evolves from a book project that explores how literary and cultural analysis and cognition research can be mutually productive. Focusing on three central terms of cultural analysis (memory... more
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Dey Hall - Toy Lounge
Speaker: Matt Hambro - "Maxilillian's Ehrenpforte as Graphic Narrative"
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The Duke University Department of German cordially invites you to the inaugural Duke in Berlin Lecture The Plasticity of Time: Morphology in the Twentieth Century In the context of his morphology, Goethe developed a technique of sequential formation that influenced several very different twentieth... more
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University Room - Hyde Hall, UNC at Chapel Hill
This event will be opened by our guest speaker Elizabeth Povinelli, Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at Columbia University. After her talk, local scholars from UNC and Duke will respond to her thoughts. Guest Speaker: Elizabeth Povinelli (Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology... more
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John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall (Room 240), Duke University
"Empire, Socialism & Jews" represents an ongoing project aiming to reconceptualize the Austrian Empire's place in Central European history and to write the Empire back into the Austrian national narrative. The project tracks the interaction between the Austrian imperial legacy, socialism and... more
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Ahamdieh Family Lecture Hall, Franklin Humanities Institute (Smith Warehouse, Bay 4, Duke University)
A conference exploring the philosophy of Margaret Cavendish, Anne Conway, and Émilie du Châtelet that aims to rediscover neglected works by early modern woman. The four day conference will focus on the early modern philosophers Margaret Cavendish, Anne Conway, and Emilie Du Châtelet and will... more
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The UNC William and Ida Friday Conference Center, UNC at Chapel Hill
The Carolina Center for Jewish Studies is taking a leadership role in bringing together international scholars, students, and the general public to explore antisemistism’s dark past and concerning present. There is an undeniable resurgence of antisemitism in many parts of the world (including North... more
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Donavan Lounge, Greenlaw Hall, UNC at Chapel Hill
Jack Halberstam is Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Gender Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. Halberstam is the author of five books, including: Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (1995), Female Masculinity (1998), In A... more
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Toy Lounge, Dey Hall 4th Floor, UNC at Chapel Hill
Jack Halberstam is Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Gender Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. Halberstam is the author of five books, including: Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (1995), Female Masculinity (1998), In A... more
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Old Chem, 119, West Campus, Duke University
Jørgen Bruhan, Professor at the Center for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies at the Linnaeus Universtiy in Växjö, Sweden, will present his talk with the title “Intermedial analysis of narrative texts: Three dimensions” at the Old Chemistry Building at Duke University.
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UNC at Chapel Hill
Funded by UNC Global and the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany, and hosted at UNC-Chapel Hill by the Departments of Communications and German and Slavic, this weeklong workshop explores the theme of “risky understanding” as it applies to both the aesthetic dimension and everyday... more
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East Duke Parlors - Pink Parlor Room
Presenter: Professor Jakob Norberg, Duke. The Parlors are located on the first floor of the East Duke building, 1304 Campus Drive, Durham, NC 27708.
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Donavan Lounge, Greenlaw Hall, UNC at Chapel Hill
We would like to invite you to join us for the second talk of the Spring semester! Dr. Priscilla Layne, assistant professor of German, will speak on "The Future is Unknown: Redefining Blackness in Afro-German Poetry"on Monday, March 28, 3:00 PM in Donovan Lounge.
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Toy Lounge, Dey Hall, UNC campus
As a special edition of the Works in Progress series and as part of our Graduate Recruitment events Annegret Oehme will present her paper "Adapting Arthur".
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Room 569, Hamilton Hall, UNC Campus
The 2010 play Verrücktes Blut (Crazy Blood), written and directed by Nurkan Erpulat and Jens Hillje, tells the story of a high school teacher who wants to instill in her students—most of them with Migrationshintergrund — Friedrich Schiller’s humanist values of freedom and self-determination by... more
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Thomas Room, Lilly Library, Duke University
As approximately one million Syrians found their way to Europe over the past year, hundreds of thousands have so far settled on German soil, making it the largest receiving country in Europe. To the surprise of many inside and outside of that country, many—if by no means all—Germans have welcomed... more
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Person Recital Hall, UNC Campus
This two day academic conference is devoted to the rich musical heritage of Hanns Eisler, one of the most interesting figures in the first half of the 20th century, composer of the first twelve-tone-film score and of the national anthem of the GDR. Speakers include Andrea Bohlman, Knud Breyer, Joy... more
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Pink Parlor East Duke Building
If there is one dominant problematic that has emerged out of these past decades of struggle in Latin America, it is without a doubt the resurgence of the very question about the role of the state and its confrontation with various non-state or anti-state forms of politics, both violent and pacific—... more
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Room 569, Hamilton Hall, UNC Campus
The North Carolina German Studies Seminar Series invites you to attend Dagmar Herzog (Graduate Center, City University of New York) On Aggression: Psychoanalysis as Moral Politics in Post-Nazi Germany Sunday, 28 February 2016 5:00-7:00 pm Room 569, Hamilton Hall, UNC Campus The heyday of... more
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Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall (FHI Garage) C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse, First Floor
Literature, Philosophy, Ethics with Niklas Forsberg (Uppsala) and Nora Hämäläinen (Helsinki) Thursday February 25: A Symposium on Literature and Moral Thought (open to the public, all welcome) 5 p.m., reception at 4:30 p.m. Niklas Forsberg: “Carver, Cavell and the Uncanniness of the Ordinary”... more
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East Duke Parlors - Pink Parlor Room
Presenter: Professor Inga Pollmann, UNC-Chapel Hill. The Parlors are located on the first floor of the East Duke Building, 1304 Campus Drive, Durham, NC 27708
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314 Allen Building
Duke's English Department is hosting Christina Svendsen for a talk. Her talk is entitled “Glass Houses: Gropius, Scheerbart, Nabakov, and Modernist Notions of Transparency”.
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FHI, Smith Warehouse, the Garage
On February 20, the second part of a two-part symposium on melodrama takes place at the Garage in Smith's Warehouse. Organized by the Center for Philosophy, Arts, and Literature (PAL) at Duke University, the symposium will engage with questions of melodrama and realism in different contexts.... more
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Duke University, Rubenstein Library, Carpenter Conference Room 249
Program: STEFANI ENGELSTEIN (Duke University): Multiplying Monotheisms: Ethnologizing Religion in the Late Eighteenth Century GABRIEL TROP (UNC Chapel Hill): Polarity, Indifference, Multiplicity JOHN H. SMITH (UC Irvine): Religion and Early German Romanticism: The Finite and the Infinite Sponsored... more
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FHI Garage (in the Smith Warehouse, Bay 4)
The goal of our spring 2016 symposium is to discuss how the Baconian method (broadly conceived) has provoked and inspired methodological debate, both in past centuries and in the present, about the nature and goals of "science." The symposium features three speakers drawn from the history of... more
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East Duke Parlors - Pink Parlor Room
Presenter: Professor Gabriel Trop, UNC-Chapel Hill. The Parlors are located on the first floor of the East Duke Buidling, 1304 Campus Drive, Durham, NC 27708.
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East Duke Parlors - Pink Parlor Room
Presenter: graduate student Tres Lambert. The Parlors are located on the first floor of the East Duke Building, 1304 Campus Drive, Durham, NC 27708
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UNC Campus Bookstore
Book reading. This event is part of the Triangle German Campus Weeks celebration of 25 Years of German Unity. Made possible by the generous support of the German Embassy, Washington.
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Duke Campus, Old Chem Bldg, Lobby and Room 119
Video installation by Karina Griffity, and talk by Dr. Priscilla Layne. This event is part of the Triangle German Campus Weeks celebration of 25 Years of German Unity. Made possible by the generous support of the German Embassy, Washington.
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East Duke Parlors - Pink Parlor Room
Presenter: graduate student Steffen Kaupp. The Parlors are located on the first floor of the East Duke Building, 1304 Campus Drive, Durham, NC 27708.
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East Duke Parlors - Pink Parlor Room
Presenter: Graduate student Heidi Hart. The Parlors are located on the first floor of the East Duke Building on Duke's Campus, 1304 Campus Drive, Durham, NC 27708