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News & Events 2010—2011
Past lectures
Prof. Steven E. Aschheim,
‘Locating Nazi Evil: The Contrasting Visions of Gershom Scholem, Hannah Arendt and Victor Klemperer’
Tuesday, 29th March, 7.30pm in the Davis Theatre
Steven E. Aschheim received his M.Sc (Econ) from the London School of Economics, his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and has taught Cultural and Intellectual History in the Department of History at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, since 1982. He has spent sabbaticals at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton and in 2002-3 was the first Mosse Exchange Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. During September-October 2005 he taught at Columbia University as the Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Scholar of German Studies. He has also taught at the University of Maryland, Reed College, the Free University in Berlin and the Central European University in Budapest. In 0ctober 2008 he taught at the University of Toronto 2008 and at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor from September-December 2009. He served as a Research Fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research in the summer of 2010 and will be a guest Professor in March-April 2011 at Trinity College, Dublin.
He is the author of Brothers and Strangers: The East European Jew in German and German-Jewish Consciousness, 1800-1923 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1982); The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany, 1890-1990 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992) which has been translated into German and Hebrew; Culture and Catastrophe: German and Jewish Confrontations with National Socialism and Other Crises (New York: New York University Press, 1996); In Times of Crisis: Essays on European Culture, Germans and Jews (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001); Scholem, Arendt, Klemperer: Intimate Chronicles in Turbulent Times (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001), which has also appeared in Italian. He is the editor of the conference volume, Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), also translated into Hebrew. His Beyond the Border: The German-Jewish Intellectual Legacy Abroad (Princeton University Press) appeared in 2007. A collection of essays entitled At the Edges of Liberalism: Junctions of European, German and Jewish History is forthcoming.
These events are open to the public and there is no charge. For further information, contact the Herzog Centre: herzog.centre@tcd.ie. |
