Karen Auerbach is associate professor of history and Stuart E. Eizenstat Fellow at the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She researches Polish Jewish history in the 19th and 20th centuries, including issues relating … Read more
Kevin J. Hoeper is a PhD candidate in modern European history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research focuses on war, violence, and military culture in the Habsburg empire and its successor states. His ongoing dissertation … Read more
Join the Office of Distinguished Scholarships and a representative from the Boren Scholarship Program to hear more about the Boren Awards, which provide funding to U.S. undergraduate and graduate students to study a wide range of critical languages, including Arabic, … Read more
International students and scholars, please join representatives from the College of Arts and Sciences, ISSS, and several student support offices for an informational open house. Global health scares, new federal travel policies, and international geopolitical tensions have prompted questions and … Read more
In the decade and a half before the outbreak of World War II, radio became a mass phenomenon throughout Europe, North America, and beyond. Even in a relatively poor country like Poland, radio made a major impact on society, culture, … Read more
Join us for a presentation and discussion of Andrea Bohlman's monograph "Musical Solidarities: Political Action and Music in Late Twentieth-Century Poland" (Oxford University Press, 2020). Participants: Anna Krakus (University of Southern California), Donald Reid (History, UNC) and the author Andrea … Read more
Simon Miles is an assistant professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. He is a diplomatic historian who uses international archival research, particularly in the former Eastern bloc, to shed new light on the history of … Read more
The Polish-Jewish writer Julian Stryjkowski (1905-1996) is mostly and justly famous for his “Galician Tetralogy,” a sequence of four novels depicting the life in Jewish shtetl right before and at the very beginning of the World War I. The description … Read more
Allen Frank earned his Ph.D. from Indiana University. He is an independent scholar who has published extensively on the Islamic history of Russia and Central Asia. His major publications include Muslim Religious Institutions in Imperial Russia (Brill, 2001), Qurban-'Ali Khalidi, An Islamic Biographical … Read more
Ukraine's Euromaidan protest in 2013-2014 was a spectacular event that attracted significant media and public attention, due in no small part to the extensive use of social media by protesters. In this talk, based on ethnographic research conducted during and … Read more
