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The UBC Department of History Colloquium Series brings together scholars who are exploring important methodological\, chronological\, or geographical i ssues that challenge the frontiers of our discipline and contribute strongl y to our collective discussions.
As part of the 2022/2023 Colloquium series\, we are pleased to invite you to a talk by Dr. Charlotte A. Lerg\, Assistant P rofessor in American Cultural History at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich\, Germany.
Whether you choose to attend virtually or in-per son\, please register for the event. A light lunch will be available for in -person attendees who register in advance.
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This instalment of the History Colloqu ium is co-sponsored by the Public Humanities Hub (PHH). PHH is supported by VPRI\, the Faculty of Arts\, the Faculty of Education and the Allard Schoo l of Law.
In courtroom sketches\, broad brush strokes capture the general atmosphere of a case while fine li nes point to details and pivotal moments. The combination of both creates t he image we get of a trial. Because of their individual character\, these d rawings make exceptional historical documents that not only reveal somethin g particular about the past\, but symbolically represent the very process o f how we construct historical understanding. At the same time\, this unique material holds an intriguing position within the (mass)media landscape of the 20th century\, which usually seems so dominated by technologically gene rated visual culture. The social practices of documentary drawing\, both ge nerally and specifically in courtroom art\, invite us to develop new approa ches to visual modes of documentation in the oscillations between art and e vidence.
Charlotte A. Lerg teaches American history and transatlantic studies at Ludwig Maximilians U niversity Munich\, Germany\, where she also serves as managing director of the Lasky Center for Transatlantic Studies. Holding an MA in Modern History and Philosophy from the University of St. Andrews and a PhD in History fro m Tübingen University\, she has also taught at the Universities of Bochum\ , Münster\, and Jena. She held fellowships at the John W. Kluge Center (Li brary of Congress) and at the German-Historical-Institute in Washington DC. Her Habilitation [second book] Universitätsdiplomatie. Prestige und W issenschaft in den transatlantischen Beziehungen 1890-1920 came out in 2019. Charlotte has also written a textbook in German on the American Revo lution. Further publications focus on cultural diplomacy and transatlantic relations in the 19th and 20th century\, especially on the 1848 Revolutions \, the First World War and the Cold War. She is a board member of the Bavar ian-American Academy and one of three editors-in-chief of HIC. Internat ional Yearbook for Knowledge and Society. Her current research project s are concerned with visual knowledge and historiography\, as well as Canad ian memory culture\, comics\, and media history.
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