Past Event Category: History of Racism
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Sep 222026: Paula Oppermann, “Thunder Cross: Fascist Antisemitism in Twentieth-Century Latvia”
Paula Oppermann
Zoom webinar Zoom Webinar Registration
College of Charleston Mosse Lecture Paula Oppermann, Thunder Cross: Fascist Antisemitism in Twentieth-Century Latvia (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2025). Tuesday, 22 September 2026, 10:30 CST Comment: Molly Pucci (Trinity College Dublin) Chair: Chad S.A. Gibbs (College of Charleston) Sponsored by: Global Mosse Lecture Series George L. Mosse Program in History Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust …
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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 202026: Renato Moro, “A Disputed Resistance: The Memory of Anti-Fascism in Italy (1945-2025)”
Renato Moro
Aula Organi Collegiali, Rettorato, Building CU001, piazzale Aldo Moro 5
Renato Moro, “A Disputed Resistance: The Memory of Anti-Fascism in Italy (1945-2025)” 20 March 2026, 11:00AM CET Livestream the talk here Rome Mosse Lecture Rettorato, Building CU001, piazzale Aldo Moro 5 Aula Organi Collegiali Welcome Address: Umberto Gentiloni (Sapienza Università di Roma) Maria Cristina Marchetti (Direttrice DiSp, Sapienza Università di Roma) Skye Doney (George L. …
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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 232025: Marc David Baer, “Children of Abraham: The Story of Muslim-Jewish Relations”
Marc David Baer
Senatssaal of Humboldt University, Berlin
Humboldt University Mosse Lecture mosselectures.wisc.edu/berlin Marc David Baer (London School of Economics), “Children of Abraham: The Story of Muslim-Jewish Relations” Senatssaal of Humboldt University May 23, 2025 19:00 CET Respondent: Ulrike Freitag (Freie Universität Berlin) The talk presents the book, The Children of Abraham: The Story of Muslim-Jewish Relations, which explores the historical relationship between …
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Apr 162025: Pinar Öğrenci, “On Tracing Histories of Displacement in Constellation”
Pinar Öğrenci
The Avalanche (Aşît) Pinar Öğrenci Germany, Turkey, 2022 Free for UC Berkeley students, staff, and faculty Get tickets here Mosse Lecture by Pinar Öğrenci, “On Tracing Histories of Displacement in Constellation” In cooperation with the symposium Media and Migration in a Digital Age In Conversation For her film, presented as an installation at documenta fifteen, …
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Mar 272025: Mirjam S. Brusius, “Skulls, Sculptures, and the Kaiser’s Museums: Global Entanglements, Colonial Race Science, and German Memory Culture”
Mirjam Brusius
Deutsches Haus, 420 W. 116th St., New York, NY 10027 Register here
Mirjam S. Brusius, “Skulls, Sculptures, and the Kaiser’s Museums: Global Entanglements, Colonial Race Science, and German Memory Culture” Thursday, March 27th, 2025 from 6-8PM With a reception to follow Register here Hosted at Deutsches Haus 420 W. 116th St. Moderator: Claudia Breger (Columbia University) Comment: Avinoam Shalem (Columbia University) Lecture Summary: What can museums tell …
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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 …