Organizational Committee:
Steven Aschheim
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ofer Ashkenazi
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Skye Doney
George L. Mosse Program in History
Atina Grossmann
The Cooper Union
Mary Louise Roberts
The University of Wisconsin-Madison
Anson Rabinbach
Princeton University
Moshe Sluhovsky
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
David Sorkin
Yale University
John Tortorice
George L. Mosse Program in History
Read Heinrich Bleicher-Nagelsmann, “Hans Mayer als Schirmherr der ‘New German Critique’” which includes a conversation with Andreas Huyssen.
Read Andreas Huyssen’s essay, “Behemoth Rises Again: Not an Analogy!” which is based on the lecture he gave at the “Mosse’s Europe” conference.
Read the UW News report on the “Mosse’s Europe” conference, “Berlin conference explores influence of UW-Madison’s Professor Mosse.”
Read Jonathon Catlin and Lotte Houwink ten Cate’s report on the “Mosse’s Europe” conference on the Journal of the History of Ideas Blog, “George L. Mosse at One Hundred: A Child of His Century.”
Listen to Andreas Beckmann’s report on the “Mosse’s Europe” conference for Deutschlandfunk, “Kongress zum 100. Geburtstag von George Mosse:
Wie die Kulturwissenschaft europäischen Faschismus erklärt.”
Read Torsten Flüh’s review of the “Mosse’s Europe” conference, “George L. Mosses Erinnerung an den Klippen Europas und 50 Jahre Stonewall,” on Night Out @ Berlin.
Conference Description:
On the occasion of the 100th birthday of Professor George L. Mosse three generations of historians will gather to commemorate and analyze his ongoing influence in European, Jewish, and Gender history, as well as the continued resonance of the Mosse family legacy in Berlin. Scholars from Germany, Israel, and the United States will meet in Mosse’s childhood city of Berlin to discuss the questions that continue to emerge from his research, including: How does gender as a category of analysis continue to modify our understanding of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe? What are the limits of liberalism? What role do racial stereotypes play in political culture before and after 1945? And how have historians expanded Mosse’s analysis of Nazi ideology to better understand the Holocaust and the history of twentieth-century Europe?
Thursday, 6 June, 13:00-19:00 - Deutsches Historisches Museum
13:00 Registration
14:00 Mossestadt: The Mosse Family in Berlin
Meike Hoffmann, “In Search of Lost Art: MARI, the Mosse Art Research Initiative”
Frank Mecklenburg, “The Mosse Family in Berlin, Cultural Capital for Subsequent Generations”
Roger Strauch, “The Mosse Art Restitution Project: A Personal Perspective”
Elisabeth Wagner, “Absence/Presence: The Berlin Mosse Topography”
Commentator/Chair: Skye Doney, George L. Mosse Program in History





Friday, 7 June 9:00-11:30 - Deutsches Historisches Museum
9:00 Registration
10:30 Official Conference Welcome
Raphael Gross, Deutsches Historisches Museum
10:30 Opening Keynote
Steven Aschheim,“George Mosse – the Man and the Legacy”
Commentator/Chair: Raphael Gross, Deutsches Historisches Museum
12:00 Lunch
Friday, 7 June 13:30-15:00 - Deutsches Historisches Museum
13:30 Panel I: Jews and Germans: Languages of Culture
Darcy Buerkle, “Weimar Imaginaries”
David Sorkin, “Between Emancipation and Bildung: Constructing German Jewry”
Marc Volovici, “German-speaking Jews and German-reading Jews in Early Zionism”
Commentator/Chair: Ofer Ashkenazi, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
15:00 Break




Friday, 7 June 15:15-16:45 - Deutsches Historisches Museum
15:15 Panel II: Studying Totalitarianism
Udi Greenberg, “Ecumenism and Nazism”
Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, “Sex and Violence: ‘Race Defilement’ in Nazi Germany”
Robert Zwarg, “‘There is Nothing Innocuous Left’: Barbarism and the Everyday”
Commentator/Chair: David Warren Sabean, UCLA




Saturday, 8 June 9:00-11:30 - Deutsches Historisches Museum
9:00 Registration
10:00 Panel III: Fascism, Populism, Authoritarianism
Andreas Huyssen, “Prophets of Deceit Redivivus”
Mary Nolan, “Is Right-Wing Populism Fascist? Reflections on Economics and Gender”
Enzo Traverso, “Conceptualizing Fascism: The Legacy of George L. Mosse”
Commentator/Chair: Anson Rabinbach, Princeton University
11:30 Coffee Break




and is a founding editor of New German Critique.
Saturday, 8 June 11:45-14:45 - Deutsches Historisches Museum
11:45: Panel IV: Nationalism, Violence, Total War
Stefanos Geroulanos, “The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Medical Metaphors in 1920s European Colonial, and International Politics”
Elissa Mailänder, “People Working: Leisure, Love, and Violence in Nazi Concentration Camps”
Mary Louise Roberts, “Race and Sexual Violence in the European Theater of War, 1944-1945”
Commentator/Chair: Atina Grossmann, The Cooper Union
14:30 Lunch Discussion: “Memories of Mosse”
John Tortorice, George L. Mosse Program in History




Saturday, 8 June 15:00-17:00 - Deutsches Historisches Museum
15:30 Panel V: Gender, Sexuality, and Mass Politics
Anna Hájková, “People Without History Are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust”
Regina Mühlhäuser, “‘One has to Anticipate what Eludes Calculation’: Reconceptualizing Sexual Violence as Weapon during the German War of Annihilation”
Michael P. Steinberg, “Antisemitism and the Politics of Displacement”
Commentator/Chair: Moshe Sluhovsky, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem



Sunday, 9 June 9:00-12:15 - Jewish Museum in Berlin
9:00 Registration
10:00 Panel VI: Mosse Fellows Panel I
Adi Armon, “Max Nordau between George L. Mosse and Benzion Netanyahu”
Arie M. Dubnov, “Mosse’s Jerusalem, Mosse in Jerusalem”
Adi Gordon, “Mosse’s Portrait of Nationalism, Preceded by Nationalism’s Portrait of Mosse”
Commentator/Chair:
Doris L. Bergen, University of Toronto
Sunny Yudkoff, University of Wisconsin-Madison





Sunday, 9 June 12:00 - Jewish Museum in Berlin
12:00 – Break
Jeffrey Herf, “The Issues of Modernity, and Antisemitism in Mosse’s Work, and in Ours”
Sunday, 9 June 14:45-16:45 - Jewish Museum in Berlin
14:30 Panel VII: Mosse Fellows Panel II
Rebekka Grossmann, “South-East of Berlin: A German Jewish Photojournalist in India”
David Harrisville, “Morality, Nazi Ideology, and the Individual in the Third Reich”
Ethan Katz, “Colonialism and the Holocaust in a North African Key: How the Jewish Insurgency in Algiers Reframes the Question”
Sarah Wobick-Segev, “German Jews Beyond Judaism? Secularism and Religious Change”
Commentator/Chair: Isabel V. Hull, Cornell University





Sunday, 9 June 17:00 - Jewish Museum in Berlin
17:00 Closing Keynote:
Aleida Assmann, “Mosse’s Europe: Can it be Saved?”
Chair: Peter Schäfer, Jüdisches Museum Berlin

