MURFREESBORO — As
the world marks the 70th year since the liberation of the Third
Reich’s victims from Nazi death camps, Middle Tennessee State University pauses
to examine a part of that tragic history.
Dr. Dagmar Herzog will discuss “Nazi Anti-Semitism and the
Christian Churches” in the 2015 MTSU Holocaust Commemoration Presentation at 4
p.m. Tuesday, March 31, in Room 100 of the James Union Building. It is free and
open to the public.
Herzog is distinguished professor of history and Daniel Rose
faculty scholar at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her books include
“Sexuality and German Fascism” and “Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in
Twentieth-Century Germany.”
In 2012, Herzog won a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation Fellowship for her work in intellectual and cultural history.
Dr. David A. Meola, visiting assistant professor of history
at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, will introduce Herzog.
“Her works are must-reads, not only for their content, but
for the intellectual vigor with which she pursues each topic,” said Meola. “Her
present work on post-Holocaust anti-Semitism and the psychiatry of trauma is a
novel way to see the struggles of Holocaust survivors within the postwar
political environment and the rise of a new anti-Semitism in Europe.”
This event is sponsored by the Holocaust Studies Program,
the Jewish and Holocaust Studies Minor and the College of Liberal Arts.
For more information, contact Dr. Elyce Helford, a professor
of English and director of Jewish and Holocaust Studies, at 615-898-5961 or elyce.helford@mtsu.edu.
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