Past Event Category: Jewish History
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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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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 …