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The Middle East & North Africa Studies Certificate co-presents two video installations by the acclaimed Lebanon-based Dictaphone Group as well as a live art installation by artist Tania El Khoury, all of which she will be present for. Artist’s Talk: Tania El Khoury Thursday, Nov. 8 | 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. (Reception […]

Guy Aldridge ’15M, an alumnus of the M.A. program in the History Department at Ohio University, will be starting his Ph.D. studies in the History Department at the University of Maryland in fall 2016. Aldridge graduated from Ohio University in spring 2015, after completing his master’s degree under the supervision of Assistant […]

Nuremberg, Germany, 1942. “Mother gave private lessons in English, so Rita would come to our house, and once a week they would have lessons,” explained Professor Emerita Marie-Claire Wrage. “One day my mother realized she was upset, and Rita said she was trying to get out of the country, but […]

Dr. Mirna Zakić, Assistant Professor of History, published an article on “The Price of Belonging to the Volk: Volksdeutsche, Land Redistribution and Aryanization in the Serbian Banat, 1941–4” on April 2014 in the Journal of Contemporary History. Abstract: Between 1941 and 1944, the Serbian Banat was occupied by Reich German […]

Dr. Mirna Zakić, Assistant Professor of History, completed a postdoctoral fellowship from the Volkswagen Foundation during 2013-14 in residence at Germany’s Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies. Her current research focuses on ethnic German communities in Southeast Europe, the transnational spread of National Socialist ideology, and the interplay of ideology and […]

The Contemporary History Institute welcomes Dr. Robert M. Citino, who will speak on “Nine Days that Shook the World” on Thursday, Nov. 7, at 4:30 p.m. in Baker 242. Citino is one of America’s most distinguished military historians and the Vice President of the Society for Military History. He is […]

Professor Guenther Heydemann will give a talk on “The Difficult Road from Dictatorship to Democracy: The Delayed Revolution of 1989 at the University of Leipzig” on Tuesday, Oct. 1, at 4:30 p.m. in Anderson Auditorium,  Room 111 in Scripps Hall. Faculty and students from all departments and schools are welcome. […]