Madison/Jerusalem
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 Invited speakers deliver three lectures that present an original, and previously unpublished scholarly view of a significant, neglected, or unconventional subject in European history.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.
Previous speakers have included 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.
George L. Mosse Distinguished Lectures:
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2025: Johannes von Moltke, Metapolitics 03: “Podcasters of Deceit- Genealogies of Agitation and the Critical Theory of ‘Metapolitics’”
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2025: Johannes von Moltke, Metapolitics 02: “The Identitarian Reflex: ‘Metapolitical’ Strategies of Appropriation and Projection”
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2025: Johannes von Moltke, Metapolitics 01: “Making the World Glow: Right-Wing ‘Metapolitics’ and the Acceleration Impulse”
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2022: Celia Applegate, “Music and Work 03, Music at Work: Singing and Self-Organization in the Workplace”
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2022: Celia Applegate, “Music and Work 02, Working as Work: The Musical Profession in the Long Nineteenth Century”
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2022: Celia Applegate, “Music and Work 01, Working at Music: The ‘Work-Play Dilemma’ in Modern German Musical Culture”
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2022: Elisheva Carlebach, “Gender and the Jewish Archive 03, Jewish Court Records: Gender and ‘Jewish Autonomy’”
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2022: Elisheva Carlebach, “Gender and the Jewish Archive 02, Records and the Forgotten Jewish Women”
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2022: Elisheva Carlebach, “Gender and the Jewish Archive 01, The Jewish Archives of Early Modern Europe”
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2019: Tara Zahra, “The Gallery of Vanished Husbands, Picture Brides, and Lost Children, How Migration Made the Modern Family 03: Separated Families”
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2019: Tara Zahra, “The Gallery of Vanished Husbands, Picture Brides, and Lost Children, How Migration Made the Modern Family 02: Single Women”
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2019: Tara Zahra, “The Gallery of Vanished Husbands, Picture Brides, and Lost Children, How Migration Made the Modern Family 01: Runaways”
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2016: Dagmar Herzog, “Unlearning Eugenics 03, Queering Disability: Political, Psychological and Sexual Subjecthood in the European Union, 2000s-2010s”
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2016: Dagmar Herzog, “Unlearning Eugenics 02, Moral Reasoning in the Wake of Mass Murder: The Singer-Affair and Reproductive Rights in Germany, 1980s-1990s”
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2016: Dagmar Herzog, “Unlearning Eugenics 01, Abortion and Disability: Western Europe, 1960s-1970s”
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2014: Sarah Abrevaya Stein, “Extraterritorial Dreams 03: A Sephardic Journey through the Twentieth Century”
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2014: Sarah Abrevaya Stein, “Extraterritorial Dreams 02: Citizens of a Fictional Nation: Ottoman-born Jews in France and Britain during the First World War”
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2014: Sarah Abrevaya Stein, “Extraterritorial Dreams 01: Seductive Subjects: the Balkan Wars and the International Rush on the Jews of Salonica”
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2012: Martin Jay, “After the Eclipse 03, Reason Eclipsed: From the Age of Reason to the Age of Reasons”
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2012: Martin Jay, “After the Eclipse 02, Reason Eclipsed: Reason Regrounded: Habermas’s Gamble”
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2012: Martin Jay, “After the Eclipse 01, Reason Eclipsed: The First Generation of the Frankfurt School”
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2010: Mary Gluck, “The Invisible Jewish Budapest 03, Parvenues and Pariahs: The Scandal of the Budapest Orpheum”
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2010: Mary Gluck, “The Invisible Jewish Budapest 02, Public Spaces, Private Selves: Jewish Humor: Self-Parody or Therapy”
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2010: Mary Gluck, “The Invisible Jewish Budapest 01, Public Spaces, Private Selves: Jewish Flâneurs in Fin-de-Siècle Budapest”
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2008: Michael Marrus (1941-2022), “Some Measure of Justice 03, Analyzing Justice: Evaluating Justice, Was Justice Achieved?”
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2008: Michael Marrus, “Some Measure of Justice 02, Analyzing Justice: Restitution in Law and History”
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2008: Michael Marrus, “Some Measure of Justice 01, Seeking Justice: Holocaust Wrongs Meet American Law”
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2006: Ruth Harris, “The Intimate Politics of the Dreyfus Affair 03: Three Jewish Brothers”
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2006: Ruth Harris, “The Intimate Politics of the Dreyfus Affair 02: The Muse and the Historian”
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2006: Ruth Harris, “The Intimate Politics of the Dreyfus Affair 01: Scheurer-Kestner’s Feast”
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2004: Jan Assmann, “Rise of Monotheism in the Ancient World 03: No god but God: Revolutionary and Exclusive Monotheism”
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2004: Jan Assmann (1938-2024), “Rise of Monotheism in the Ancient World 02: All Gods are One: Evolutionary and Inclusive Monotheism”
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2004: Jan Assmann, “Rise of Monotheism in the Ancient World 01: What is Polytheism?”
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2002: Christopher R. Browning, “Collected Memories 03, Survivor Testimony from Starachowice: The Final Days”
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2002: Christopher R. Browning, “Collected Memories 02, Survivor Testimony from Starachowice: Writing the History of a Factory Slave Labor Camp”
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2002: Christopher R. Browning, “Collected Memories 01, Perpetrator Testimony: Another Look at Adolf Eichmann”