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Film Poster for season 4 of TV series "Babylon Berlin"

Babylon Berlin, Season 4

Season 4 of the German hit series “Babylon Berlin” has finally arrived in the United States. Set in the early 1930s in Germany and the period of the National Socialists’ rapid rise to absolute power, season 4 once again follows police inspector Gereon Rath (Volker Bruch) and police assistant Charlotte Ritter (Liv Lisa Fries) as they try to solve a murder-mystery set in the streets of Berlin. However, it is Gereon’s slow surrender to the power of Fascism that really drives this season and the relationship between the two protagonists who were once on the same page …

Axinn Center 232

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Film Poster for season 4 of TV series "Babylon Berlin"

Babylon Berlin, Season 4

Season 4 of the German hit series “Babylon Berlin” has finally arrived in the United States. Set in the early 1930s in Germany and the period of the National Socialists’ rapid rise to absolute power, season 4 once again follows police inspector Gereon Rath (Volker Bruch) and police assistant Charlotte Ritter (Liv Lisa Fries) as they try to solve a murder-mystery set in the streets of Berlin. However, it is Gereon’s slow surrender to the power of Fascism that really drives this season and the relationship between the two protagonists who were once on the same page …

Axinn Center 232

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Film Poster for season 4 of TV series "Babylon Berlin"

Babylon Berlin, Season 4

Season 4 of the German hit series “Babylon Berlin” has finally arrived in the United States. Set in the early 1930s in Germany and the period of the National Socialists’ rapid rise to absolute power, season 4 once again follows police inspector Gereon Rath (Volker Bruch) and police assistant Charlotte Ritter (Liv Lisa Fries) as they try to solve a murder-mystery set in the streets of Berlin. However, it is Gereon’s slow surrender to the power of Fascism that really drives this season and the relationship between the two protagonists who were once on the same page …

Axinn Center 232

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History HSMT Guest Lecture by Prof. Samira Sheikh

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Prof. Samira Sheikh, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, is a historian of early modern South Asia at Vanderbilt University. She has just completed a book on the dying days of a little kingdom in western India and is now planning a large-scale study of precolonial and early colonial Indian maps. She will give a guest lecture, “Looking west from Cambay: How Sadanand Vyas complicates the history of Indian science.” As political chaos shook the storied port of Cambay in the late eighteenth century, Sadanand Vyas drew a detailed map of his province of Gujarat, in western India.

Axinn Center 219

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Black Life in a Nazi Internment Camp: The Art of Josef Nassy

During World War II, Black people living in Nazi Germany and occupied Europe were in some cases incarcerated in internment and concentration camps. One of the most significant visual documents of this neglected chapter of the war are a series of drawings and paintings created by Caribbean artist Josef Nassy during his internment. This talk introduces the little known Josef Nassy Collection as a unique visual record of the experiences of Black prisoners in the Nazi camp system.

Axinn Center 229

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Our Palestine Question

Title: Book talk: Our Palestine Question

Geoffrey Levin (Emory University) will discuss his new book, Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978 (Yale 2023), a new history of the American Jewish relationship with Israel, which focuses on its most urgent and sensitive issue: the question of Palestinian rights.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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Walking with the Mahatma: Kasturba Gandhi’s Political Life

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global and International History presents Aparna Kapadia, associate professor of history at Williams College and ” Walking with the Mahatma: Kasturba Gandhi’s Political Life.”

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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