October 18, 2005
Eric Weitz to discuss the Herero and the Armenian Genocides at Clark on November 2
WORCESTER, MA - Eric Weitz, Ph.D., will serve as Clark University’s Modern History Colloquium Speaker and will share his work on ethnic and national conflict, genocides, and human rights, in
“Germans Abroad: The Herero and Armenian Genocides and the Origins of the Holocaust” at Clark University at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, November
2, at the Kent Seminar Room in the Cohen Lasry House, 11 Hawthorne Street.
Weitz is the author of “A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation” (Princeton University Press, 2003) and “Creating German Communism, 1890-1990: From Popular Protests to Socialist State” (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997). The latter received an honorable mention for the Allan Sharlin Memorial Award in 1998 from the Social Science History Association.
Weitz was appointed the Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Chair in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota in 2003. He has served as an associate professor of history at the University of Minnesota since 1999 and, prior to that, he was a postdoctoral research associate in the History Department.
He also serves as director of the Center for German and European Studies, a consortium of the Universities of Minnesota and Wisconsin that is funded by the German Academic Exchange Service. The Center promotes collaborative, interdisciplinary research of faculty and graduate students; runs lectures, symposia, and conferences; and supports innovative teaching, such as the Trans-Atlantic Summer Institute in German Studies. The Institute brings together graduate-level students from North America and Germany for an intensive, three-week summer seminar.
Weitz teaches courses on twentieth-century Germany, and joins colleagues to teach on fascism and neo-fascism in Europe and on Japanese and German fascism. He also teaches graduate seminars on twentieth-century Germany.
“Modern Germany involves so much more than the Nazis. Nineteenth and twentieth-century Germany has also been home to large and active socialist and communist parties, vibrant feminist movements, and wonderful innovations in the arts,” he said. “The lively, contested nature of its past, the great hopes and the deepest of tragedies, is what initially drew me to the study of modern German history, and continues to inform my teaching and research.”
Weitz earned a B.A. in History from the State University of New York at Binghamton. He earned both an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Modern European History from Boston University. He is a member of the American Historical Association, the Social Science History Association, the Conference Group on Central European History, the German Studies Association, and the Study Group on International Labor and Working Class History.
This lecture is sponsored by Clark University’s Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the History Department. It is free and open to the general public and will be followed by a reception. For more information, call 508-793-8897.
The mission of the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies is to educate undergraduate and graduate students about genocide and the Holocaust; to host a lecture series, free of charge and open to the public; to use scholarship to address current problems stemming from the murderous past; and to participate in the public discussion about a host of issues ranging from the significance of state-sponsored denial of the Armenian genocide and well-funded denial of the Holocaust to intervention in and prevention of genocidal situations today.
Clark University is a private, co-educational liberal-arts research university with 2,000 undergraduate and 600 graduate students. Since its founding in 1887 as the first all-graduate school in New England, Clark has challenged convention with innovative programs such as the International Studies Stream, the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the five-year BA/MA programs with the fifth year tuition-free for eligible students.
Angela M. Bazydlo
Associate Director of Media Relations
Clark University
Worcester, Mass.
phone: 508-793-7635
www.clarku.edu
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