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Hauntings: Ghosts from a Nazi Childhood

The Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies cordially invites you to the eighth Dr. George J. Wittenstein Lecture. Professor Mahlendorf will discuss some unexpected reader responses to her recently […]

“Traces of Trade: A Story from the Deep South”

In this feature documentary filmmaker Katrina Browne discovers that her New England ancestors were the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. She and nine cousins retrace the Triangle Trade and […]

Cultural Diffusion Across Eurasia, 500 BC-AD 200

The transmission of a vast number of art motifs, technologies, and cultural traits from West to East in prehistoricperiod was due to the speed of communications and trading networks across […]

Blaming the past: Apologizing for ancestral misdeeds

Dr. David Lowenthal, Professor Emeritus, University College, London, is the author of many works, including the well-known The Past is a Foreign Country. Dr. Lowenthal also be available to meet […]