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George L. Mosse Program @glmosseprogram.bsky.social · 1d

It's #MosseWednesday! Join the Center for Humanities for Michael Rothberg's talk, "Comparison Controversies: Historical Analogy & the Politics of Holocaust Memory"
tomorrow.

🗓️ October 9 at 5 in the Elvehjem Building

#UWHistdept #EuropeanstudiesatUWMadison
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Humanities Without Boundaries: Michael Rothberg

Comparison Controversies: Historical Analogy and the Politics of Holocaust Memory Why do we turn to the past in order to confront the crises of the present? Michael Rothberg approaches this question f...

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George L. Mosse Program @glmosseprogram.bsky.social · 8d

For #MosseWednesday, check out Kathryn L. Brackney's
interview with @joncatlin.bsky.social on the Journal of the History of Ideas' blog about her book, Surreal Geographies: A New History of Holocaust Consciousness.

www.jhiblog.org/2025/10/01/s...

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George L. Mosse Program @glmosseprogram.bsky.social · 15d

It's #mossewednesday! Check out Valerie Deacon's review of Reneé Poznanski's newly translated Propaganda and Persecution in the American Historical Review.

Read it here: academic-oup-com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/ahr/article/...

#newreview #history #europeanstudiesatuwmadison #europeanstudies

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George L. Mosse Program @glmosseprogram.bsky.social · 22d

It's #MosseWednesday! Join us Thursday for Derek Penslar's talk, "Beyond Sympathy and Antisemitism: The International Community and the Palestine Question, 1947-1949."

🗓️ September 18th at the Pyle Center, or on Zoom.
Learn more at: mosseprogram.wisc.edu/event/penslar

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2025: Derek Penslar, “Beyond Sympathy and Antisemitism: The International Community and the Palestine Question, 1947-1949”

Sponsored by: UW-Madison Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies George L. Mosse Program in History This talk examines how the public in the Middle East, South Asia, Europe, and Latin America percei...

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George L. Mosse Program @glmosseprogram.bsky.social · 24d

Get ready! Kathryn Brackney's talk on her book, Surreal Geographies, begins in a half an hour!

You can tune in through Zoom- go.wisc.edu/bk9sbt

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Mosse-Zucker/Goldberg New Books Webinar with Kathryn Brackney, Surreal Geographies: A New History of Holocaust Consciousness. After registering, you will re...

Kathryn Brackney, Surreal Geographies: A New History of Holocaust Consciousness Comment by Sheer Ganor (University of Minnesota) Chaired by Chad S.A. Gibbs (College of Charleston) Surreal Geographie...

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George L. Mosse Program @glmosseprogram.bsky.social · Sep 5

Tenure-track job opportunity! Louisiana State University is hiring an Assistant Professor of modern European history. Follow the link below for more information:

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Assistant Professor - Modern European History

All Job Postings will close at 12:01a.m. CST (1:01a.m. EST) on the specified Closing Date (if designated). If you close the browser or exit your application prior to submitting, the application progre...

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George L. Mosse Program @glmosseprogram.bsky.social · Sep 3

Its #MosseWednesday! Join us on Zoom for Kathryn L. Brackney’s talk, “Surreal Geographies: A New History of Holocaust Consciousness” on September 15th.

Register here: go.wisc.edu/bk9sbt

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2025: Kathryn Brackney, “Surreal Geographies: A New History of Holocaust Consciousness”

College of Charleston Mosse Lecture Surreal Geographies: A New History of Holocaust Consciousness Kathryn Brackney (Universiteit Leiden) Comment by Sheer Ganor Chaired by Chad S.A. Gibbs Sponsored by:...

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George L. Mosse Program @glmosseprogram.bsky.social · Aug 27

It’s #MosseWednesday! Available now to order, Antonella Salomoni’s The Ashes of Babi Yar explores the aftermath of the 1941 massacre, focusing particularly on how the arts shaped collective memory.

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The Ashes of Babi Yar

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George L. Mosse Program @glmosseprogram.bsky.social · May 14

It’s #MosseWednesday! Join Steven Ascheim tomorrow, May 15, for his Mosse Lecture in Berlin, “Reflections on Liberal and Humanist Nationalism in Times of War: George Mosse and the Contradictions of Jewishness, Zionism and Israel.” For more information: mosselectures.wisc.edu/event/ascheim/

2025: Steven Ascheim, “Reflections on Liberal and Humanist Nationalism in Times of War: George Mosse and the Contradictions of Jewishness, Zionism and Israel”

Humboldt University Mosse Lecture Reflections on Liberal and Humanist Nationalism in Times of War: George Mosse and the Contradictions of Jewishness, Zionism and Israel Steven Ascheim (Hebrew Universi...

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George L. Mosse Program @glmosseprogram.bsky.social · May 8

The tenth volume of the Collected Works of George L. Mosse, German Jews Beyond Judaism, has just arrived at our office! Preorder a copy for yourself today!

Check it out here: uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/G/Germ...

German Jews Beyond Judaism

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George L. Mosse Program @glmosseprogram.bsky.social · May 7

It’s #MosseWednesday!

Up now on the Mosse Lectures website, a recording of Stefanos Geroulanos’ talk from last month, “The Normal and the Perverse (1968-1983).”

Check it out here: mosselectures.wisc.edu/2025/04/15/g...

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George L. Mosse Program @glmosseprogram.bsky.social · Apr 30

It's #MosseWednesday!
Available now for pre-order, Celia Applegate’s The Work of Music. In The Work of Music, Applegate examines the cultural history of Austro-German music through the lens of labor from the 1648 Peace of Westphalia to the Third Reich.

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George L. Mosse Program @glmosseprogram.bsky.social · Apr 23

It’s #MosseWednesday! Just released, the covers for two of the Mosse First Book winners, out this October. Thunder Cross by Paula A, Oppermann: uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/T/Thun... Christian Internationalism and German Belonging by Rebecca Carter-Chand: uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/C/Chri...

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George L. Mosse Program @glmosseprogram.bsky.social · Apr 16

It’s #MosseWednesday! Up now on our website, the spring 2025 newsletter! Check it out to learn about what the Program has been up to over the past semester. Here's the link: mailchi.mp/history/spri...

Spring 2025: Mosse Lectures Series, Undergraduate Projects, and More

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George L. Mosse Program @glmosseprogram.bsky.social · Apr 10

Join us today at 4 for Michael D. Gordin's lecture, "“After Soviet Science: Between Globalization and Autarky, 1986–2022” in the Pyle Center! mosseprogram.wisc.edu/event/gordin/

2025: Michael D. Gordin, “After Soviet Science: Between Globalization and Autarky, 1986–2022”

Michael D. Gordin Pyle Center 10 April 2025, 16:00 2025 Michael B. Petrovich Lecture “After Soviet Science: Between Globalization and Autarky, 1986–2022” Michael D. Gordin (Professor of History, Dean ...

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George L. Mosse Program @glmosseprogram.bsky.social · Apr 9

Don't forget to join us tomorrow at 4pm in the Pyle Center for Michael D. Gordin’s lecture “After Soviet Science: Between Globalization and Autarky, 1986-2002,” this year’s Michael B. Petrovich Lecture. mosseprogram.wisc.edu/event/gordin/

2025: Michael D. Gordin, “After Soviet Science: Between Globalization and Autarky, 1986–2022”

Michael D. Gordin Pyle Center 10 April 2025, 16:00 2025 Michael B. Petrovich Lecture “After Soviet Science: Between Globalization and Autarky, 1986–2022” Michael D. Gordin (Professor of History, Dean ...

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George L. Mosse Program @glmosseprogram.bsky.social · Apr 9

It’s #MosseWednesday! Up now on the blog, Julià Gómez Reig’s review of Los Orígenes Intelectuales del Tercer Reich, the Spanish translation of George L. Mosse’s The Crisis of German Ideology, published by La Esfera de los Libros.

Read his review here: mosseprogram.wisc.edu/2025/03/31/r...

George L. Mosse Program @glmosseprogram.bsky.social · Apr 3

It’s #MosseWednesday!

Join Stefanos Geroulanos on April 15th for his talk, “The Normal and the Perverse (1968-1983)”, this year’s Annual Mosse Lecture at Cornell.

For more information: 🔗: mosselectures.wisc.edu/event/geroul...

2025: Stefanos Geroulanos, “The Normal and the Perverse (1968-1983)”

Cornell University, Annual Mosse Lecture “The Normal and the Perverse (1968-1983)” Stefanos Geroulanos (NYU) This Annual Mosse Lecture is cosponsored by the departments of Romance Studies, History, an...

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George L. Mosse Program @glmosseprogram.bsky.social · Apr 1

Join us this Thursday, April 3rd at 4pm for “Living Right: Far-Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe,” a book talk by Agnieszka Pasieka, part of the CREECA lecture series.
For more information: creeca.wisc.edu/event/living...

George L. Mosse Program @glmosseprogram.bsky.social · Mar 27

Join us Thursday, April 10th, at 4pm in the Pyle Center for Michael D. Gordin’s lecture “After Soviet Science: Between Globalization and Autarky, 1986-2002,” this year’s Michael B. Petrovich Lecture.

For more information: mosseprogram.wisc.edu/event/gordin/

2025: Michael D. Gordin, “After Soviet Science: Between Globalization and Autarky, 1986–2022”

Michael D. Gordin Pyle Center 10 April 2025, 16:00 2025 Michael B. Petrovich Lecture “After Soviet Science: Between Globalization and Autarky, 1986–2022” Michael D. Gordin (Professor of History, Dean ...

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George L. Mosse Program @glmosseprogram.bsky.social · Mar 26

It’s #MosseWednesday!
Join Mirjam Brusius tomorrow, March 27th, for her Mosse Lecture, “Skulls, Sculptures, and the Kaiser’s Museums: Global Entanglements, Colonial Race Science, and German Memory Culture (c. 1900-today)” at Columbia University’s Deutsches Haus.

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George L. Mosse Program @glmosseprogram.bsky.social · Mar 19

It’s #MosseWednesday! Up now on our YouTube channel, the recordings of Johannes von Moltke’s lecture series, Metapolitics: Acceleration, Agitation, and Appropriation in the New Right’s Culture Wars, held earlier this month.

Check them out here: www.youtube.com/@georgelmoss...

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George L. Mosse Program @glmosseprogram.bsky.social · Mar 18

Join us tomorrow afternoon at 3 central for Jeffrey Schneider’s virtual book talk about his new book, Uniform Fantasies: Soldiers, Sex, and Queer Emancipation in Imperial Germany.

If you’re interested in attending, don’t forget to RSVP to receive the Zoom link! Register here: go.wisc.edu/e3c4u1

Mosse-Zucker/Goldberg New Book Series
Uniform Fantasies
Cover of book: Two men in blue uniforms
Jeffrey Schneider is 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 as the interactions between the Prussian military and the modern queer emancipation movement in imperial Germany.
Comment by: Professor Ervin Malakaj, University of British Columbia
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George L. Mosse Program in History
Mosse Lectures
Chair: Professor Chad Gibbs, College of Charleston, Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies
March 19, 2025
4pm EST
3 PM Central
Webinar link: https://go.wisc.edu/e3c4ul
College of Charleston Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies
The Center for European Studies
Department of History University of Wisconsin-Madison

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George L. Mosse Program @glmosseprogram.bsky.social · Mar 18

The submission period for this year’s Mosse First Book Prize, sponsored by the George L. Mosse Program and the University of Wisconsin Press is now open!
Proposals are accepted through August 1, 2025.
For more information: mosseprogram.wisc.edu/2025/03/18/f...

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George L. Mosse Program @glmosseprogram.bsky.social · Mar 12

It’s #MosseWednesday! Join us next Wednesday for Jeffery Schneider’s talk “Uniform Fantasies” based on his new book of the same title.

If you’re interested in attending, sign up here to receive the Zoom link: go.wisc.edu/e3c4u1

For more information: europe.wisc.edu/event/mosse-...

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