Fall 1998 Lecture Series Print E-mail
History and Biography

Was Rahel Varnhagen a Self-Hating Jew?
September 24, 1998
Deborah Hertz (Sarah Lawrence College)

"O Freunde, nicht diese Töne": Beethoven Biography as Propaganda
October 22, 1998
David B. Dennis (Loyola University of Chicago)

Problems of a New Hitler Biography
November 5, 1998
Ian Kershaw (University of Sheffield)

Friedrich Hecker: Revolution, Emigration, Commemoration
November 24, 1998
Sabine Freitag (GHI London)

Politics, "Race," and Gender: Lise Meitner and the Discovery of Nuclear Fission
December 3, 1998
Ruth Lewin Sime (Sacramento City College)

Ernst Reuter: The Problem of Cold War Hagiography
December 10, 1998
David E. Barclay (Kalamazoo College)