Past Event Category: George Mosse Program
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Oct 5“Afropean: An Examination of Black People and Blackness in Europe”
Location to be announced!
Afropean will convene scholars from around the country and Europe who offer both a breadth of research and expertise on the topic of Black people and Blackness in Europe since colonization and geographic variety including Germany, Italy, Denmark, France, Sweden and the former Soviet Union. Scholars will partake in public panel discussions that will place …
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Sep 22“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). Comment by Molly Pucci (Trinity College Dublin) Chaired by Chad S.A. Gibbs (College of Charleston) Sponsored by: Mosse Lectures George L. Mosse Program in History Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies at the …
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Apr 21“The Mistral: A Windswept History of Modern France”
Catherine Tatiana Dunlop (Montana State University, Bozeman)
Zoom Zoom Webinar Registration
2025 American Historical Association George L. Mosse Prize Recipient: The Mistral: A Windswept History of Modern France Catherine Tatiana Dunlop (Montana State University, Bozeman) Chaired by Professor Emma Kuby (University of Wisconsin–Madison) An in-depth look at the hidden power of the mistral wind and its effect on modern French history. Every year, the chilly mistral …
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Apr 7“Christian Internationalism and German Belonging: The Salvation Army from Imperial Germany to Nazism”
Rebecca Carter-Chand (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
Zoom
Zoom link: https://go.wisc.edu/12if5x George L. Mosse First Book Prize Recipient: Christian Internationalism and German Belonging: The Salvation Army from Imperial Germany to Nazism – Rebecca Carter-Chand Comment by: Brandon Bloch (UW–Madison) Chaired by: Ofer Ashkenazi (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Ever since the Salvation Army, a British Protestant social welfare organization, arrived in Germany in 1886, …
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Mar 23“Survival at Treblinka: Geography, Gender, and Social Networks of Jewish Resistance”
Chad S.A. Gibbs
Zoom
College of Charleston Mosse Lecture Chad S.A. Gibbs, Survival at Treblinka: Geography, Gender, and Social Networks in Jewish Resistance (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2026). Comment by Jacob Flaws (Kean University) Chaired by Hanna Green (College of Charleston) Zoom Webinar Registration On August 2, 1943, prisoners at the Nazi extermination camp Treblinka, located in occupied …
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Nov 4“Still Lives: Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany”
Ofer Ashkenazi, Rebekka Grossmann, Sarah Wobick-Segev, and Shira Miron
Zoom
Ofer Ashkenazi, Rebekka Grossmann, Sarah Wobick-Segev, and Shira Miron Still Lives: Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany (University of Pennsylvania Press, January 2025). Tuesday, 4 November 2025 11:00 CST, ZOOM Register for Zoom webinar Sponsored by: George L. Mosse Program in History Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies UW–Madison Center for German and European Studies Still Lives …
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Sep 15Surreal Geographies: A New Consciousness of Holocaust Consciousness
Kathryn L. Brackney
Webinar
Mosse – Zucker/Goldberg New Book Series Webinar Link: https://go.wisc.edu/bk9sbt Surreal Geographies recovers a forgotten archive of Holocaust representation. Examining art, literature, and film produced since1945, Kathryn Brackney shows how the Holocaust has developed into a figure for the destabilization and reformulation of the category of humanity and the problem of mourning across difference. Comment …
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Jun 25Geographic and Geopolitical Variability of EU Asylum During the European Migration “Crisis”
Kara Dempsey (UNC-Appalachian State University)
Memorial Library, Room 126 (728 State Street)
Boxed lunches provided with R.S.V.P. by 20 June: https://go.wisc.edu/r4qi3o Kara E. Dempsey is Associate Professor of Geography at UNC-Appalachian State University. She studies international forced displacement, ethnonational conflicts, consolidation of state and regional power, and peace-building processes. She is the author of The Geopolitics of Conflict, Nationalism, and Reconciliation in Ireland (2022), co-editor of Making …
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Mar 19“Uniform Fantasies”
“Uniform Fantasies” Jeffrey Schneider (Vassar College) Comment by: Ervin Malakaj (University of British Columbia) Chair: Chad Gibbs (College of Charleston, Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies) Jeffrey Schneider is a Professor of German Studies, Faculty Director of Affirmative Action, and Director of Global Nineteenth Century Studies at Vassar. Schneider works on foreign language pedagogy as well …
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Feb 252025 George L. Mosse Lectures with Johannes von Moltke
Pyle Center (702 Langdon St, Madison WI) Room 213
““Metapolitics”: Acceleration, Appropriation, and Agitation in the New Right’s Culture Wars” 2025 George L. Mosse Lectures Johannes von Moltke (University of Michigan) 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 efforts …