This Annual Mosse Lecture is cosponsored by the departments of Romance Studies, History, and German Studies, by the Programs of Jewish Studies, LGBTQ+ Studies and Feminist, Gender and Sexual Studies, by the Institute for German Cultural Studies, and by the Society for the Humanities in collaboration with the Mosse Foundation.
Cornell University Mosse Lecture Leadership:
Enzo Traverso is Susan and Barton Winokur Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University. His research focuses on the intellectual history of the nineteenth and twentieth century. He was born in Italy, studied history at the University of Genoa and received his Ph.D. from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris in 1989. Before coming to Cornell in 2013, he taught political science for twenty years at the University of Piccardy, France. He has been a visiting professor in several European and Latin American universities. His authored several books, which are translated into more than fifteen languages, including The Jewish Question: History of a Marxist Debate (1994; 2018) The Jews and Germany: From the ‘Judeo-German Symbiosis’ to the Memory of Auschwitz (1995); The Origins of Nazi Violence (2003); The End of Jewish Modernity (2016); Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History and Memory (2016); Fire and Blood: The European Civil War 1914-1945 (2016); Revolution: An Intellectual History (2021); and Singular Pasts: The ‘I’ in Historiography (2022).