Featured Speakers

Steven AschheimJoanna BourkeDavid James FisherSaul FriedlanderEmilio GentileSander GilmanRoger GriffinRudy KosharRobert NyeDavid SabeanEmmanuel SivanJohann SommervilleShulamit VolkovJay Winter

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If you’d like a listing of otheraccommodations in the area or you are interested in more information on things to do and see in Madison during your stay, please contact the:

Greater Madison Convention andVisitors BureauPhone: 608/255-2537; 800/373-6376www.visitmadison.com

Campus Assistance and Visitor CenterRed Gym716 Langdon Street608/263-2400www.visit.wisc.edu

George L. Mosse teaching at the University ofWisconsin-Madison, March 1967.(Photo by Edwin Stein; Courtesy of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Archives)

AN HISTORIAN'S LEGACY

George L. Mosse and Recent Researchon Fascism, Society, and Culture

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10:45 Session II: Mosse and FascismChair: Anson Rabinbach, PrincetonUniversity

Emilio Gentile, University of Rome"The Development of Mosse's Conceptof Fascism"

Roger Griffin, Oxford Brookes University"Withstanding the Rush of Time.The Prescience of Mosse'sAnthropological Approach to Fascism"

12:00 LunchAlumni Lounge, Pyle Center

David James Fisher, UCLA Schoolof Medicine"Confronting George Mosse: Reflectionson His Autobiographical Writings"

1:45 p.m. Session III: Nationalismand MemoryChair: Jeffrey Herf, University ofMaryland

Jay Winter, Cambridge University"War and Remembrance in the 20thCentury"

Rudy Koshar, University of Wisconsin-Madison"National Memory and 'DestinationCulture'"

Emmanuel Sivan, Hebrew University"George Mosse and the IsraeliExperience"

3:30 Refreshment Break

*Background photo: Mosse Zentrum, Berlin

Lodging

Plan to make your reservations early. Hotel space is limited.

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Lowell Center, 610 Langdon Street.Mention the Mosse Conference whenmaking your reservations. Reservations:Phone: 608/256-2621FAX: 608/262-5445

Additional hotels in campus area:

The University Inn441 N. Frances StreetPhone: 608/257-4881

Howard Johnson Plaza Hotel525 West Johnson StreetPhone: 608/251-5511

For more information on this conference please contact:

Loretta FreilingInstitute for Research in the Humanities1401 Observatory DriveMadison, WI 53506-1295Phone: 608/262-3855FAX: 608/265-4173freiling@facstaff.wisc.edu

3:45 Session IV: War and the BodyChair: Seymour Drescher, Universityof Pittsburgh

Sander Gilman, University of Ilinois-Chicago"Nationalism and Sexuality: What ItMeans to Have a German and or aJewish Body"

Joanna Bourke, University of London"The Corporeal Self in War: BattleNarratives about 'the Body',1914-1945"

SUNDAY, September 9

9:00 a.m. Refreshments

9:30 Session V: Respectability, theJews, and the Image of ManChair: David Sorkin, University ofWisconsin-Madison

Steven Aschheim, Hebrew University"Doctors, Degeneration, and(Murderous) Respectability"

Shulamit Volkov, Tel Aviv University"German Jewish History: Back toBildung and Culture"

Robert Nye, University of Oregon"Mosse, Masculinity, and the Historyof Sexuality"

Funding provided by the Burdick-Vary Fundand the Anonymous Fund.

Conference RegistrationSeptember 7-9, 2001

Please let us know if you will be attending this conference by filling outthe following form and mailing it to the address below. Thank you.

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Banquet ReservationsFRIDAY, September 7, 2001

I/we plan to attend the Banquet on Friday evening at the University Club.

_____ dinners @ $25 per person

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Make checks payable to the University Club and return to the addressbelow before September 2, 2001.

Return address:

Institute for Research in the Humanities1401 Observatory DriveMadison, WI 53706-1295

All sessions will be held in The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon StreetThe University of Wisconsin-Madison

FRIDAY, September 7, 2001

Alumni Lounge, Pyle Center

4:30 p.m. WelcomeDirector, Humanities Research InstituteUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison

Keynote AddressSaul Friedlander, University of California-Los Angeles"Mosse's Influence on the Historiography of the Holocaust"

OPENING BANQUET

University Club, 803 State Street6:00 Social Hour7:00 Dinner

SATURDAY, September 8

9:00 a.m. Session I: Mosse's EarlyScholarship on Early Modern EuropeChair: Lee Palmer Wandel, Universityof Wisconsin-Madison

David Sabean, University of California-Los Angeles"The Holy Pretence: Method and Themein George Mosse's Early Work"

Johann Sommerville, University ofWisconsin-Madison"The Modern Contexts of Mosse's EarlyModern Historiography"

10:15 Refreshment Break

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