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  • Lecture III: Learning from the Past after 1945: Ordinary Germans and Elites

    Featured The Heavy Burden of Modern German History: Imperialism, Wars, Genocide in the Twentieth Century, and the Fall-Out
    Faculty House 64 Morningside Drive, New York
    Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lecture Series

    The Heavy Burden of Modern German History: Imperialism, Wars, Genocide in the Twentieth Century, and the Fall-Out   Volker R. Berghahn Seth Low Emeritus Professor of History Columbia University Lecture I: Debates Among Historians of Modern Germany, 1950-2024 Monday, October 7, 2024, 8 pm Lecture II: Hitler’s War Aims: Genocide and World Domination Monday, October 21, 2024, 8 pm Lecture III: Learning from the Past after 1945: Ordinary Germans and Elites Monday, October 28, 2024, 8pm These lectures will examine the development of Germany in the twentieth- and twenty-first- centuries up to the year 2024. As that development has led to at times heated debates […]

  • Schoff Memorial Lectures | Lecture I

    Featured Art of the Lecture Series
    Faculty House 64 Morningside Drive, New York
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    Postponed until Fall 2027 Art of the Lecture Brent Hayes Edwards Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature Lecture I: "Talking in and out of School" Although lecture courses are a staple of university teaching, there is oddly little scholarship considering the lecture as a format. This series of lectures is framed neither as a straightforward history nor as a practical how-to guide, but instead as an argument for the unique generic qualities and political stakes of the lecture as a mode that hovers between pedagogy and performance. Brent Hayes Edwards is the Peng Family Professor of English and […]