Politics of Memory: Anti-semitism in Contemporary Western Europe – A Roundtable with Fabien Theofilakis, Stefanos Geroulanos, Andrew Port, and Mark Mazower

Date: January 31st, 2024

Time: 6:00 PM

Location: East Gallery, Maison Française (515 West 116th Street, New York, NY 10027)

More information and registration available here.

This roundtable will explore the contemporary politics of anti-semitism in western Europe in historical perspective. Focusing on the cases of postwar France and Germany, discussants will ask how a set of debates that emerged out of consideration of the Holocaust have been transformed in recent years and affected most recently by events in the Middle East.

The discussants are: Stefanos Geroulanos [Professor of European Intellectual History, NYU], Andrew Port [Professor of History, Wayne State University] and Fabien Theofilakis [Professor of History, Paris-1, Sorbonne]. The chair will be Mark Mazower [Dept of History, Columbia University]

Participant Profiles:

Stefanos Geroulanos is Director of the Remarque Institute at NYU where he teaches modern European intellectual history, specialising in France. His latest book is The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and our Obsession with Human Origins (2024, forthcoming)

Mark Mazower is SNF Director of the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination and Ira D. Wallach Professor of History, Columbia. His books include Hitler’s Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe (2008) and What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past and the Journey Home (2017)

Andrew Port is Professor of History and author of the widely acclaimed Never Again: Germans and Genocide After the Holocaust (2023) described by Samuel Moyn as ‘the most important study of memory, politics, and the ongoing construction of public norms written in a long time.’

Fabien Theofilakis is the author of numerous publications on wartime captivity and camps in the Second World War, the Eichmann trial and the memory of the Holocaust.

This event is sponsored by the Maison Francaise, the Alliance Program, and the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination, and co-sponsored by the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies and the Department of History.