Jean and Harold Gossett Lecture in Memory of Holocaust Victims
Martha and Paul Feivel Feingold
The Committee on Jewish Studies sponsors the Jean and Harold Gossett Lecture, which was established in January 1997. The lecture is intended to highlight artistic expression in modern Jewish culture with a particular emphasis on issues related to the Holocaust. It is presented each year in the spring.
Upcoming Lecture
| 2009 |
Bożena Shallcross Associate Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago 28 April: "A Holocaust Object and the Study of Its Production" |
Lecture Archive
| 2008 |
Paul Jaskot Associate Professor of Art and Architectural History, DePaul University "Nazi Politicians, German Art Historians, and Antisemitic Propaganda: The Nazi Party Appropriation of Heinrich Woelfflin in the Electoral Battles of the Late Weimar Republic" |
| 2007 |
Daniel Mendelsohn Charles Ranlett Professor of Humanities, Bard College "The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million" |
| 2006 |
Peter Filkins poet, Simon's Rock College of Bard "Misery and Metonymy: The Art of H. G. Adler" |
| 2005 |
Pierre Joris Professor of English, SUNY-Albany "Beyond Witness. The Visionary, Non-Soteriological Poetics of Paul Celan: The Darkness in the Poem and the Light" |
| 2004 |
Michael Steinberg PhD 1985, Professor of History, Cornell University "Style and Idea in German Jewish History" |
| 2003 |
Philip Bohlman Professor of Music, University of Chicago "'There He Saw an Old Woman Weeping': Music Drama of the Holocaust and the Transcendence of Theresienstadt's Everyday" At this lecture, Professor Bohlman was joined by Ilya Levinson in a concert performance of the closing scene of Viktor Ullman's monodrama Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke(1944), the final work composed for the concentration camp stage at Theresienstadt |
| 2002 |
Seth L. Wolitz Gale Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of French, Slavic, and Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin "Ansky's Hybridic Work: The Dybbuk" |