"Mosse's Europe: New Perspectives in the History of German Judaism, Fascism, and Sexuality"

mosseprogram.wisc.edu/berlin-2019

Panel V: Nationalism, Violence, and War
8 June 2019

Stefanos Geroulanos, “The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Medical Metaphors in 1920s European Colonial, and International Politics”

Stefanos Geroulanos is a Professor of History at New York University. He is the author, most recently, of The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War (2018, with Todd Meyers) and Transparency in Postwar France (2017), and the co-editor of The Scaffolding of Sovereignty: Global and Aesthetic Perspectives on the History of a Concept (2017, with Zvi Ben-Dor and Nicole Jerr).

For more information, see Contemporary Europe in the Historical Imagination (https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/6103.htm) by Darcy Buerkle and Skye Doney, published by the University of Wisconsin Press.

Sponsored by:
George L. Mosse Program in History
Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
The Mosse Foundation
Deutsches Historisches Museum
Jüdisches Museum Berlin
University of Wisconsin-Madison History Department
Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hebrew University of Jerusalem Department of History
Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History
Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung
Technische Universität Berlin
Koebner Center for German History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Leo Baeck Institute London
Leo Baeck Institute New York
Mosse-Lectures an der Humboldt-Universität
Schwules Museum Berlin