We are delighted that A. Dirk Moses, Anne and Bernard Spitzer Professor of International Relations at the City College of New York–CUNY, will give the workshop’s keynote address, entitled: “Recent German Memory Debates: An Iteration of a Western Culture War.”
The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will take place from 4:30-6:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 9, 2023, in room N-7050 (Pavillon Paul-Guérin-Lajoie) at the Université du Québec à Montréal, 1205, rue Saint-Denis (métro Berri-UQAM). To see the poster for the lecture, click here.
One of today’s leading scholars of genocide, Dirk Moses recently joined the faculty of the City College of New York after positions in the history departments of the University of North Carolina, the European University Institute and the University of Sydney. He is the author of two noted monographs, German Intellectuals and the Nazi Past (2007) and The Problems of Genocide (2021), and is currently writing a study of traumatic memory and the constitution of genocidal subjectivities. In 2021, his essay “The German Catechism,” which contested German memory culture (especially in relation to the Holocaust) sparked heated debate on both sides of the Atlantic. Since 2011, Moses has also been the senior editor of the Journal for Genocide Research.