Past Event Category: German History
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Mar 232026: Chad S.A. Gibbs, “Survival at Treblinka: Geography, Gender, and Social Networks of Jewish Resistance”
Chad S.A. Gibbs
College of Charleston Mosse Lecture mosselectures.wisc.edu/charleston Chad S.A. Gibbs, Survival at Treblinka: Geography, Gender, and Social Networks in Jewish Resistance (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2026). Comment: Jacob Flaws (Kean University) Chair: Hanna Green (College of Charleston) On August 2, 1943, prisoners at the Nazi extermination camp Treblinka, located in occupied Poland, launched an uprising …
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Mar 52026: Daniel Kehlmann, “The Long Night Comes to an End”
Daniel Kehlmann
Deutsches Haus, 420 W. 116th St., New York, NY 10027 Event RSVP
RSVP here Lecture Description: For good reason, there is currently a great deal of discussion about how a society that has lost its democratic freedom can find its way back. Less thought is given to what that “afterward” might actually look like in concrete terms. Here German literature offers suggestive points of reference. Alfred Döblin, …
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Jan 82026: Joseph Vogl, “Epoche des Amok”
Joseph Vogl
Volkstheater: Arthur-Schnitzler-Platz 1, 1070 Wien, Österreich
Donnerstag, 8. Januar 2026 Joseph Vogl (Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Princeton University): »Epoche des Amok«
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Sep 152025: Kathryn Brackney, “Surreal Geographies: A New History of Holocaust Consciousness”
Kathryn Brackney
College of Charleston Mosse Lecture mosselectures.wisc.edu/charleston Kathryn Brackney (Universiteit Leiden), Surreal Geographies: A New History of Holocaust Consciousness Comment: Sheer Ganor (University of Minnesota) Chair: Chad S.A. Gibbs (College of Charleston) Surreal Geographies recovers a forgotten archive of Holocaust representation. Examining art, literature, and film produced from the immediate postwar period up to the present moment, …
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Jul 102025: Shaul Magid, “On the Obsession with Defining Antisemitism: Why Do Jews Find It So Difficult to Talk about Antisemitism Today?”
Shaul Magid
Senatssaal of Humboldt University, Berlin
Humboldt University Mosse Lecture mosselectures.wisc.edu/berlin Magid Shaul (Cambridge, MA), “On the Obsession with Defining Antisemitism: Why Do Jews Find It So Difficult to Talk about Antisemitism Today? Senatssaal of Humboldt University July 10, 2025 19:00 CET Respondent: Stefanie Schüler-Springorum (TU Berlin) Lecture Description: Whereas Jews have often disagreed on almost all matters of their history …
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Jun 192025: Bashir Bashir, “The Holocaust and the Nakba: On the Ethics of Egalitarian Binationalism”
Bashir Bashir
Senatssaal of Humboldt University, Berlin
Humboldt University Mosse Lecture mosselectures.wisc.edu/berlin Bashir Bashir (R’anana/Berlin), “The Holocaust and the Nakba: On the Ethics of Egalitarian Binationalism” Senatssaal of Humboldt University (Unter den Linden 6) June 19, 2025 19:00 CET Respondent: Thomas Meyer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) Lecture Description: This talk demonstrates the connections and entanglements between the memories and traumas of the Holocaust and …
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May 152025: Steven E. Aschheim, “Reflections on Liberal and Humanist Nationalism in Times of War: George Mosse and the Contradictions of Jewishness, Zionism and Israel”
Steven Ascheim
Senatssaal of Humboldt University, Berlin
Humboldt University Mosse Lecture mosselectures.wisc.edu/berlin Steven E. Aschheim (Hebrew University, emeritus), “Reflections on Liberal and Humanist Nationalism in Times of War: George Mosse and the Contradictions of Jewishness, Zionism and Israel” Senatssaal of Humboldt University May 15, 2025 19:00 CET With Ethel Matala de Mazza Im Sommersemesters 2025 widmen sich die Mosse Lectures dem derzeit …
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Apr 152025: Stefanos Geroulanos, “The Normal and the Perverse (1968-1983)”
A.D. White House, 27 E Ave, Ithaca, NY 14853
Cornell University Mosse Lecture mosselectures.wisc.edu/ithaca Tuesday, 15 April 2025, 16:45 EST Stefanos Geroulanos (NYU), “The Normal and the Perverse (1968-1983)” Chair: Enzo Traverso (Cornell University) A.D. White House 27 East Ave. Ithaca, NY 14853 Lecture Series Description: This Annual Mosse Lecture is cosponsored by the departments of Romance Studies, History, and German Studies, by the …
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Mar 192025: Jeffrey Schneider, “Uniform Fantasies: Soldiers, Sex, and Queer Emancipation in Imperial Germany”
Jeffrey Schneider
Zoom History Department event page
March 19, 2025 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Zoom Comment by: Ervin Malakaj (University of British Columbia) Chair: Chad Gibbs (College of Charleston, Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies) Jeffrey Schneider is a Professor of German Studies, Faculty Director of Affirmative Action, and Director of Global Nineteenth Century Studies at Vassar. Schneider works on foreign language pedagogy as well as …
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Feb 272025: Johannes von Moltke, “Prophets of Deceit: Genealogies of Agitation and the Critical Theory of ‘Metapolitics'”
Pyle Center (702 Langdon St, Madison WI) Room 213 History Department event page
2025 George L. Mosse Lectures Johannes von Moltke (University of Michigan), ““Metapolitics”: Acceleration, Appropriation, and Agitation in the New Right’s Culture Wars” Lecture Series Description: In this series of talks, Johannes von Moltke sheds light on the New Right’s mobilization of arts and ideas in today’s culture wars: its media strategies, identity politics, conspiracy theories, and …