Wednesday, February 20, 7:00 PM
Scholarly Lecture:
Fostering National Belonging through Local Narratives:
Heimatliteratur, the Thirty Years’ War, and German Nation Building in the Nineteenth-Century
At the Goethe-Institut Washington, 1990 K St NW, Washington, DC
Scholarly Lecture:
Fostering National Belonging through Local Narratives:
Heimatliteratur, the Thirty Years’ War, and German Nation Building in the Nineteenth-Century
At the Goethe-Institut Washington, 1990 K St NW, Washington, DC
In this presentation, Emily Sieg Barthold, MA, will discuss how historical fictions of the Thirty Years’ War in the German Kaiserreich addressed the layering of regional, confessional and national identities.