The Mosse-Lectures at Humboldt University in Berlin, founded in 1997, commemorate the history of the Mosse-family, the German-Jewish publishing house Rudolf Mosse, and George L. Mosse – the eminent historian – who gave the series’ opening speech on May 14, 1997. As an academic institution, the Mosse-Lectures continue the tradition of democratic liberalism, which was established and defended by Mosse’s newspaper Berliner Tageblatt, in their commitment to the support of cultural exchange, transfer of knowledge, and political enlightenment.
The Mosse Lectures at Berkeley have developed their own identity as a public humanities event with a focus on the role of visual and other media. We have engaged in conversation with eminent filmmakers and writers on questions of capitalism, populism, utopian fiction, documentary poetics, and cultural memory.
This series is presented by the Department of German for the Mosse Lectures at UC Berkeley with support from The Mosse Foundation and the George L. Mosse Program in History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Co-presenting partners are the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and the German Historical Institute.
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Recent University of California, Berkeley Mosse Lectures:
2022: Ilija Trojanow, “The Utopian Prerogative”
September 1, 2022