Here is a selection of conferences and workshops I have organized; keynotes and other lectures I have given; and media appearances:
Ordinary Men / Extraordinary Crimes
Podcast interview The Washington Times about the Netflix documentary “Ordinary Men,” the psychological aspects of mass murder, and the difficulty in drawing comparisons between, for instance, Hamas and the Nazi perpetrators. 12 December 2023
Ordinary Men and Masculinity: Gendering Holocaust Perpetrators
Presentation at the virtual conference “Social Psychology of the Holocaust: Rereading Browning.” Toulouse, France, 24 March 2022
Holocaust Perpetrators in Fiction and Art. Workshop, Clark University, 28 October 2022 View program workshop
“Holocaust Perpetrators in History and Fiction.” A conversation with Christopher Browning and Erin McGlothlin, Clark University, 27 Oct 2022.
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“Gender, War, and Citizenship.” Introductory paper given to the virtual roundtable to launch the Oxford Handbook of Gender, War and the Western World Since 1600 in Memory of Sonya O. Rose (1935-2020), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill & Radboud University Nijmegen, 5 March 2021
Holocaust Education and “New Antisemitism.” Virtual Workshop, Clark University, 29 Oct 2020 (with Simone Schweber, University of Wisconsin, Madison)
“Shame, Honor, and Amusement. Violent Pasts in Germany and in America.” Lecture at Vanderbilt University, 21 Nov 2019
Genocide. Ecocide. Climate Catastrophe. Naming It. Owning It. Going from Here. A Conversation with Christian Parenti (John Jay College) and Roy Scranton (University of Notre Dame), Clark University, 23 October 2019 (with Sarah Buie, Clark University)
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“New Directions in Perpetrator Studies: The Holocaust.” Paper given to the 14th Meeting of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, American University, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 14-19 July 2019
E Pluribus Unum? Memory Conflicts, Democracy, and Integration, Interdisciplinary Conference, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, 11-13 April 2019
Fourth International Graduate Conference on Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, 12-15 April 2018
“’The Murderers Are Among Us’: Images of Holocaust Perpetrators from the Third Reich to the Present.” Lecture at Appalachian State University, 12 February 2018
“Male Bonding and Genocidal Warfare: Comradeship in Germany’s 20th Century.” Lecture at Stockton University, 2 Nov 2017
Children and Mass Violence, Workshop, Clark University, 19-20 October 2017
“Beware the Dismissal of Germany’s Nazi Past.” Letter to the Editor, Wall Street Journal, 12 March 2017
“The Challenges in Indian Country in the 21st Century: Planning, Law, Community.” Judy Dworkin and David Pijawka in conversation with Jody Emel and Thomas Kühne , Clark University, 26 October 2016
“Trump: Fascist or Demagogue?” Worcester Telegram and Gazette, 19 June 2016 (with Mary Jane Rein)
Genocide of Native Americans? A Symposium on Indigenous Identity and Mass Violence in North America, Clark University, 15-17 April 2016
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Public History of the Holocaust.” Symposium with Harold Marcuse, Andrew I. Port and Simone Schweber, Clark University, 18 March 2015.
“Tender and Tough: German Soldiers and Protean Masculinity in the 20th Century.” Keynote to the conference Masculinities in Times of (Post)War. The German Case, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, Paris, France, 27-28 Nov 2015
“Deutschsein: Der gärende Mischmasch,” DER SPIEGEL (Germany), 11 November 2014.
“The Murderers Among Us: How We Elude and Confront Holocaust Perpetrators,” Holocaust Memorial Museum, Farmington, MI, Wayne State University, 23 March 2014
“Beauty in a Globalized World: Body Aesthetics and Social Identity in the Long 20th Century.” Keynote to the international conference Beauty: Commons vs. Contests, University of Antwerp, Belgium, 24 Oct 2012
“Sexual Violence During the Holocaust.” A Panel Discussion with Pascale R. Bos, Dagmar Herzog, and Regina Mühlhäuser, Clark University, 15 October 2012
Second International Graduate Conference on Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, 30 March-1 April 2012
“Nation Building Through Genocide: Hitler’s Community and the Holocaust,” Princeton University, 15 Feb 2011
“Europe exploits the Holocaust to spread its message of tolerance,” The Guardian, 27 Jan 2011
Globalizing Beauty: Aesthetics in the 20th Century. International Conference, German Historical Institute, Washington DC, 14-16 Oct 2010 (with Hartmut Berghoff, Washington DC)
“Body Chat: Beauty Matters.” Interview with Stuart Braun, ExBerliner. Berlin in English, #88, November 2010, p. 17
Holocaust Memory – Legacies of Disaster or Lessons of Cosmopolitanism? Symposium, Clark University, 29 April 2010 (with Cristina Andriani, Clark University)
Workshop Friendship and the Nation, Henry J. Leir Center-Clark University, Luxembourg, 4-7 March 2010, (with Danny Kaplan, Tel Aviv)
First International Graduate Conference on Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, 23-26 April 2009
Bridging the Impossible? Confronting Barriers to Dialogue between Germans/ Jews/ Palestinians, Public Symposium, Clark University, 1 November 2007
“Male Bonding and Shame Culture. Hitler’s Soldiers,” Ohio State University, 20 April 2005
“Beauty, Race, and Democracy in the 20th Century,” Clark University, 6 April 2005
Second Conference of the Interdisciplinary Association of Men’s and Gender Studies, held at the Academy of the DIÖZESE Rottenburg/Stuttgart, Stuttgart-Hohenheim, 8-9 November 2002 (with Martin Dinges, Stuttgart)
Interdisciplinary Conference Vom massenhaften gegenseitigen Töten (On Mutual Mass Killing), held at the Evangelic Academy, Loccum/Germany, 2-4 November 2002 (with Peter R. Gleichmann, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany)
First Conference of the Interdisciplinary Association of Men’s and Gender Studies, held at the Academy of the DIÖZESE Rottenburg/Stuttgart, Stuttgart-Hohenheim, 1-3 March 2001 (with Martin Dinges, Stuttgart)
Interdisciplinary Conference Von der Kriegskultur zur Friedenskultur? Zum Wandel der politischen Mentalität in Deutschland seit 1945 (War Culture into Peace Culture. The Change of Political Mentality in Germany since 1945), held at the Academy of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Freudenberg/Siegen, 5-7 November 2000
International Conference Was ist Militärgeschichte? (What is Military History?), University of Bochum, 6-7 November 1998 (with Benjamin Ziemann)
