2016: Dagmar Herzog, “Unlearning Eugenics 02, Moral Reasoning in the Wake of Mass Murder: The Singer-Affair and Reproductive Rights in Germany, 1980s-1990s”
Dagmar Herzog, “Unlearning Eugenics in Post-Nazi Europe 02, Moral Reasoning in the Wake of Mass Murder: The Singer-Affair and Reproductive Rights in Germany, 1980s-1990s”
Monday, 5 December 2016, 18:00 IDT Gilbert de Botton Auditorium
Konrad Adenauer Conference Center
Mishkenot Sha’ananim POB 4572
Jerusalem 9104402 ISRAEL
Chair: Shulamit Volkov (Tel Aviv University)
This lecture series was published as Unlearning Eugenics: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Disability in Post-Nazi Europe (Madison: University of Wisconsin Madison, 2020).
Dagmar Herzog is Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, where she writes and teaches on interdisciplinary theory and historical method, the history of disability, the histories of gender and sexuality, and the histories of fascism and genocide. She is author of seven books, including Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany (2005); Sexuality in Europe: A Twentieth-Century History (2011); Cold War Freud: Psychoanalysis in an Age of Catastrophes (2017); Unlearning Eugenics: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Disability in Post-Nazi Europe (2018); and the forthcoming The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany’s Twentieth Century (2024). Her most recent coedited collection, with Chelsea Schields, is The Routledge Companion to Sexuality and Colonialism (2021).Shulamit Volkov
