2022 Annual YaleCHESS Lecture: Antisemitisms in Weimar Germany: Evidence from Children's Tales
Robert Braun, Assistant Professor, Sociology and Political Science, University of California - Berkeley
Robert Braun, Assistant Professor, Sociology and Political Science, University of California - Berkeley
This year marks the hundredth anniversary of Primo Levi’s birth. To celebrate the centenary of Italy’s revered and beloved survivor/witness of the Shoah, Yale will host Levi’s biographer, Ian Thomson. Thomson will speak about how the author came to write his first great book, Se questo è un uomo, published in the United States as Survival in Auschwitz, and in the United Kingdom as If This Is a Man, the literal rendering of the Italian title.
You are invited to a special evening exploring the point where Jewish memory and contemporary American politics are most intertwined: the debate over calling US border camps ‘concentration camps.’
Jacques Semelin is a historian, political scientist and psychologist that has served as a director of research at Sciences Po since 1997. In 2007, Sémelin was qualified as a professor of History and of Political Science by the Conseil national des universités (le CNU). Sémelin is highly esteemed for his work on mass violence and mass genocide, being a member of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. He is the founder of the Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence, of which he has been president since January 2011.
Sarah Hammerschlag, University of Chicago Divinity School.
The Department of Religious Studies is co-sponsoring a talk with the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism and the Program in Judaic Studies Thursday February 21st at 4pm, the Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall Street, room 208).
For more information, please contact Nancy Levene