October 27, 2009
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Holocaust scholar to speak on antisemitism
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Doris Bergen |
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Twenty years ago, most scholars thought that the study of antisemitism had little to add to an understanding of the Holocaust. Recent research has re-opened this discussion. In an event commemorating the 71
st anniversary of the Kristallnacht pogrom, Doris Bergen will visit the University of the Fraser Valley to address the role of antisemitism in the Holocaust and offer new ways to think about “the longest hatred.”
Bergen will speak on Monday, November 9, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm in the UFV Abbotsford campus lecture theatre (room B101).
Entitled “Nazi Antisemitism: New Perspectives on an Old Debate”, Bergen’s talk is part of the History Distinguished Speakers Series at UFV.
Bergen is the Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Toronto.
Doris Bergen's research focuses on issues of religion, gender, and ethnicity in the Holocaust and World War II and comparatively in other cases of extreme violence. Her books include Twisted Cross: The German Christian Movement in the Third Reich (1996); War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust (2003); The Sword of the Lord: Military Chaplains from the First to the Twenty-First Centuries (edited, 2004); and Lessons and Legacies VIII (edited, 2008).
She has held grants and fellowships from the SSHRC, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the German Marshall Fund of the United States, the DAAD, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and she has taught at the Universities of Warsaw, Pristina, Tuzla, Notre Dame, and Vermont.
Her current projects include a book on German military chaplains in the Nazi era and a study of definitions of Germanness as revealed in the Volksdeutschen/ethnic Germans of Eastern Europe during World War II and the Holocaust. Bergen is a member of the Academic Advisory Committee of the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
Bergen’s talk is sponsored by the UFV History department, the Research Services and Industry Liaison office, and the Association of History Students.
Admission to her Nov 9 talk is free, and the public is welcome. Pay parking ($2 for four hours) is in effect at UFV.
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