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January 27, 2020

"Who Will Write Our History" (2018) Film Screening

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A film screening in commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day: Who Will Write Our History [motion picture] (2018). In November 1940, days after the Nazis sealed 450,000 Jews...

January 28, 2020

What the Miracle Means: Olympic Hockey and Sports in America and Central Europe

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What the Miracle Means: Olympic Hockey and the Transformation of Sports in America and Central Europe It’s been called the greatest moment in sports history. In the forty years since the US...

February 4, 2020

GLOSX 0051 - Teaching with Graphic Novels: An Educator Book Discussion

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This book discussion will be centered around Nora Krug’s 2019 award-winning graphic memoir, Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home. During the first half of the evening,...

February 12, 2020

On Belonging: WW II and German Cultural Identity

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A presentation and reading by Nora Krug. Nora Krug is a German-American author and illustrator whose drawings and visual narratives have appeared in many national and international...

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