German Study Group
Co-Chaired by Uta Poiger & Jonathan Zatlin


Upcoming Events

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Past Events
Monday, April 28, 2008
Photo of Marion Kaplan
"Dominican Haven: the Jewish Refugee Settlement in Sosúa, 1940-45"
Marion Kaplan, Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History, New York University

4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Cabot Room
Co-sponserd by the Jews in Modern Europe Study Group & The German Study Group
Contact: Phyllis Albert, phyllisalbert@comcast.net

Thursday, April 17, 2008
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"Welfare State - Warfare State? Nazi Germany Reconsidered"
Adam Tooze, Gurnee Hart Fellow in History, Jesus College, Cambridge

4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Cabot Room
German Study Group
Contact: Jonathan Zatlin, jzatlin@bu.edu

April 3, 2008
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"Visual Sources and the Holocaust: The Myth of Jewish Criminality"
Michael Berkowitz, Professor of Modern Jewish History, University College London

4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Cabot Room
Jews in Modern Europe Study Group co-sponsored by the German Study Group
Contact: Alex Sagan, alex@sagan.com

February 25, 2008:
4:15pm - 6:00pm, Cabot Room, Busch Hall

"Volunteers For Shame: German Cinema-Goers and American Atrocity Films 1945-46"
Ulrike Weckel, Visiting Professor, University of Michigan
December 3, 2007:
4:15pm - 6:00pm, Cabot Room, Busch Hall

"Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine"
Omer Bartov, John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History at Brown University

This talk is co-sponsored by the Jews in Modern Europe Study Group.
October 9, 2007:
4:15pm - 6:00pm, Cabot Room, Busch Hall

"Rescued From the Holocaust, Exploited After 1945: Telling the Story of the ‘Buchenwald Child’ in East, West and United Germany"
Professor William Niven, Professor of Contemporary German History in the History, Heritage and Geography Department, Nottingham; Trent University, England


Co-sponsored by the Jews in Modern Europe
April 12, 2007:
"Chancellor Angela Merkel: Gender and Power in the German Christian Democratic Party"
Sarah Wiliarty, Government Department, Wesleyan University
4:15 - 6:00PM
Cabot Room, Busch Hall

Co-sponsored with the Gender, Politics and Society Study Group
April 16, 2007:
"Almost Rebels’: Activist Judges, Unnatural Acts and the Movement to Decriminalize Male Homosexuality in 1960s West Germany"
Robert G. Moeller, Professor of History, University of California at Irvine
4:15 - 6:00PM
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
March 21, 2007:
"Beauty, Business and German International Relations"
Uta Poiger, Associate Professor of History, University of Washington, Seattle, and Visiting Associate Professor of History, Harvard University
Co-sponsored by the Gender, Politics, and Society Study Group

4:15 - 6:00PM
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
November 27, 2006:
"Anti-Semitic Violence in German and European History during the Long Nineteenth Century"
Helmut Walser Smith, Martha Rivers Ingram Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
Co-sponsored by Jews in Modern Europe Study Group

4:15 - 6:00PM
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
November 14, 2006:
"Being Jewish in the New Germany"
Jeffrey Peck
Georgetown and Humboldt Universities
Co-sponsored by Jews in Modern Europe Study Group

4:15 - 6:00PM
Cabot Room, Busch Hall
October 17, 2006:
"'Down in Turkey Far Away': Human Rights, the Armenian Massacres, and Orientalism in Wilhelmine Germany"
Margaret Lavinia Anderson
University of California at Berkeley

4:15 - 6:00PM
Cabot Room, Busch Hall