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France’s World War II: Division, Defeat, and Denial

a HALF-DAY DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR seminar featuring Max Owre Why did France, with the largest and most well-equipped army in Western Europe in 1939, fall to Nazi Germany in little over a month in the spring of 1940? To answer this, we will … Read more

Art, Music, and the Aesthetics of Power in Early Modern Europe

Blue Hill Event Center at Extraordinary Ventures 200 South Elliot Road, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

an EVENING DIALOGUES seminar   Take an evening trip to Europe as we investigate the sights and sounds of courtly life in the Early Moden era. From the portraiture of the powerful in the Renaissance, to the study and performance … Read more

Transformations and Decline in the Late Roman Empire

a DIALOGUES seminar Historians often argue that all empires go through cycles of expansion, stagnation, and decline, but how do these cycles evolve in specific times and places?  This is the broad question that we’ll examine in this dialogue seminar … Read more

Modern Civic Life and Public Health Across the Americas

a DIALOGUES seminar Democratic societies in all parts of the world are facing dual crises in the civic and physical health of their citizens. These facets of public wellbeing are closely connected, and those connections become apparent in the work … Read more

Ten Years of Conflict: An Update on Ukraine

Kenan Conference Center, Kenan-Flagler Business School Kenan Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

In February 2014, Russia annexed Crimea and began its ten-year assault on the sovereignty of Ukraine. The escalation of this conflict in 2022 renewed the world’s attention on the expansionist ambitions of Vladimir Putin in the region and garnered military … Read more