The George L. Mosse Program in History sponsors the biennial “George L. Mosse Distinguished Lectures.” George L. Mosse gained an international reputation as a historian able to address key, controversial and unconventional issues in a manner accessible to a broad audience. His scholarship was an extension of his electrifying lecturing and magnetic teaching: he aimed to engage his readers just as he challenged the minds and captivated the hearts of students in his classroom.
The George L. Mosse Distinguished Lecture Series continues this legacy of scholarship and teaching. Invited speakers deliver three lectures that present an original, and previously unpublished scholarly view of a significant, neglected, or unconventional subject in European history. The edited lectures will subsequently be published in the George L. Mosse Series in the History of European Culture, Sexuality, and Ideas.
These events alternate between the two institutions where George L. Mosse taught and wrote: the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The Mosse Program inaugurated the lecture series in 2002 when Professor Christopher Browning gave the first series of lectures in Madison and in 2004 in Jerusalem with Professor Jan Assmann.
Distinguished scholars who have given the Mosse Lectures include Celia Applegate, Jan Assmann, Elisheva Carlebach, Mary Gluck, Ruth Harris, Dagmar Herzog, Martin Jay, Michael Marrus, Sarah Abrevaya Stein, Johannes von Moltke, and Tara Zahra.