Upcoming Events
Resisters: How Ordinary Jews Fought Persecution in Hitler’s Germany
Wolf Gruner (USC) Moderators: Michael Rothberg (UCLA) & Jared McBride (UCLA)
November 16, 2023, CNSI, 4PM
The 1939 Society Program in Holocaust Studies
Cosponsored by the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies
At the limits of language: Poetics amidst Violence
Grzegorz Kwiatkowski (Poet & Musician) Moderator: Rachel Kaufman (UCLA)
December 6, 2023, Live via Zoom Webinar, 10AM
The 1939 Society Program in Holocaust Studies
Event Recordings / Past Events
Civilization Breaks: Colonialism, Slavery, and the Holocaust
Organized by Michael Rothberg, Ben Ratskoff, and Zoé Samudzi
May 22-23, 2023, 314 Royce Hall
The 1939 Society Samuel Goetz Chair in Holocaust Studies
History, Memory, Fiction: A Reading and Conversation
Eduardo Halfon (Author) in conversation with Michael Rothberg (UCLA)
March 8, 2023, 314 Royce Hall, 4PM
The 1939 Society Program in Holocaust Studies
New Approaches to Italian Fascism & Jewish Histories
Marla Stone, Giulia Albanese, Shira Klein, Guri Schwarz, Andrew Viterbi, Moderator: Sarah Abreva Stein
February 2, 2023
The Viterbi Program in Mediterranean Jewish Studies
Wartime North Africa: A Documentary History, 1934-1950
Aomar Boum (UCLA) & Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UCLA), Moderator: Michael Rothberg (UCLA)
January 31, 2023
The 1939 Society Program in Holocaust Studies
Undesirables: A Holocaust Journey to North Africa
Aomar Boum (UCLA), Moderator: Todd Presner (UCLA)
Januray 24, 2023
Sady & Ludwig Kahn Book Talk in German Jewish Studies
Ordinary Monsters: The Holocaust and the Puzzle of Perpetration
Mark Roseman (Indiana University, Bloomington) Moderator: Michael Rothberg (UCLA)
December 9, 2022
The Annual 1939 Society Program in Holocaust Studies
Remembering Possibility: Memory and Photography in Liquid Time
Marianne Hirsch (Columbia University) with Michael Rothberg (UCLA)
March 17, 2022
Etta and Milton Leve Scholar-in-Residence Lecture
The 1939 Society Lecture in Holocaust Studies
The Zip Code Memory Project
Marianne Hirsch (Columbia University) with Michael Rothberg (UCLA)
March 17, 2022
Etta and Milton Leve Scholar-in-Residence Seminar
The 1939 Society Seminar in Holocaust Studies
Thinking in Dark Times: Zygmunt Bauman’s Modernity and the Holocaust and the Art of the Invisible
Max Silverman (University of Leeds) with Michael Rothberg (UCLA)
March 3, 2022
The 1939 Society Lecture in Holocaust Studies
The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed
Wendy Lower (Claremont McKenna College) with Jared McBride (UCLA)
January 27, 2022
The 1939 Society Lecture in Holocaust Studies
The Question Concerning Perpetrators
Susanne Knittel (Utrecht University) with Michael Rothberg (UCLA)
November 8, 2021
The 1939 Society Lecture in Holocaust Studies
The Problems of Genocide Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression
A. Dirk Moses (UNC at Chapel Hill) & Michael Rothberg (UCLA)
September 30, 2021
The 1939 Society Lecture in Holocaust Studies