George L. Mosse Program

It’s #MosseWednesday! Join Steven Ascheim tomorrow, May 15, for his Mosse Lecture in Berlin, “Reflections on Liberal and Humanist Nationalism in Times of War: George Mosse and the Contradictions of Jewishness, Zionism and Israel.” For more information: mosselectures.wisc.edu/event/ascheim/

German Jews Beyond Judaism

The tenth volume of the Collected Works of George L. Mosse, German Jews Beyond Judaism, has just arrived at our office! Preorder a copy for yourself today!

Check it out here: uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/G/Germ...

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Up now on the Mosse Lectures website, a recording of Stefanos Geroulanos’ talk from last month, “The Normal and the Perverse (1968-1983).”

Check it out here: mosselectures.wisc.edu/2025/04/15/g...

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Available now for pre-order, Celia Applegate’s The Work of Music. In The Work of Music, Applegate examines the cultural history of Austro-German music through the lens of labor from the 1648 Peace of Westphalia to the Third Reich.

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It’s #MosseWednesday! Just released, the covers for two of the Mosse First Book winners, out this October. Thunder Cross by Paula A, Oppermann: uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/T/Thun... Christian Internationalism and German Belonging by Rebecca Carter-Chand: uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/C/Chri...

It’s #MosseWednesday! Up now on our website, the spring 2025 newsletter! Check it out to learn about what the Program has been up to over the past semester. Here's the link: mailchi.mp/history/spri...

Join us today at 4 for Michael D. Gordin's lecture, "“After Soviet Science: Between Globalization and Autarky, 1986–2022” in the Pyle Center! mosseprogram.wisc.edu/event/gordin/

Don't forget to join us tomorrow at 4pm in the Pyle Center for Michael D. Gordin’s lecture “After Soviet Science: Between Globalization and Autarky, 1986-2002,” this year’s Michael B. Petrovich Lecture. mosseprogram.wisc.edu/event/gordin/

It’s #MosseWednesday! Up now on the blog, Julià Gómez Reig’s review of Los Orígenes Intelectuales del Tercer Reich, the Spanish translation of George L. Mosse’s The Crisis of German Ideology, published by La Esfera de los Libros.

Read his review here: mosseprogram.wisc.edu/2025/03/31/r...

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Join Stefanos Geroulanos on April 15th for his talk, “The Normal and the Perverse (1968-1983)”, this year’s Annual Mosse Lecture at Cornell.

For more information: 🔗: mosselectures.wisc.edu/event/geroul...

Join us this Thursday, April 3rd at 4pm for “Living Right: Far-Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe,” a book talk by Agnieszka Pasieka, part of the CREECA lecture series.
For more information: creeca.wisc.edu/event/living...

Join us Thursday, April 10th, at 4pm in the Pyle Center for Michael D. Gordin’s lecture “After Soviet Science: Between Globalization and Autarky, 1986-2002,” this year’s Michael B. Petrovich Lecture.

For more information: mosseprogram.wisc.edu/event/gordin/

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Join Mirjam Brusius tomorrow, March 27th, for her Mosse Lecture, “Skulls, Sculptures, and the Kaiser’s Museums: Global Entanglements, Colonial Race Science, and German Memory Culture (c. 1900-today)” at Columbia University’s Deutsches Haus.

George L. Mosse Program in History

It’s #MosseWednesday! Up now on our YouTube channel, the recordings of Johannes von Moltke’s lecture series, Metapolitics: Acceleration, Agitation, and Appropriation in the New Right’s Culture Wars, held earlier this month.

Check them out here: www.youtube.com/@georgelmoss...

Mosse-Zucker/Goldberg New Book Series Uniform Fantasies Cover of book: Two men in blue uniforms Jeffrey Schneider is Professor of German Studies, Faculty Director of Affirmative Action, and Director of Global Nineteenth Century Studies at Vassar. Schneider works on foreign language pedagogy as well as the interactions between the Prussian military and the modern queer emancipation movement in imperial Germany. Comment by: Professor Ervin Malakaj, University of British Columbia Picture of Jeffrey Schneider George L. Mosse Program in History Mosse Lectures Chair: Professor Chad Gibbs, College of Charleston, Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies March 19, 2025 4pm EST 3 PM Central Webinar link: https://go.wisc.edu/e3c4ul College of Charleston Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies The Center for European Studies Department of History University of Wisconsin-Madison

Join us tomorrow afternoon at 3 central for Jeffrey Schneider’s virtual book talk about his new book, Uniform Fantasies: Soldiers, Sex, and Queer Emancipation in Imperial Germany.

If you’re interested in attending, don’t forget to RSVP to receive the Zoom link! Register here: go.wisc.edu/e3c4u1

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The submission period for this year’s Mosse First Book Prize, sponsored by the George L. Mosse Program and the University of Wisconsin Press is now open!
Proposals are accepted through August 1, 2025.
For more information: mosseprogram.wisc.edu/2025/03/18/f...

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It’s #MosseWednesday! Join us next Wednesday for Jeffery Schneider’s talk “Uniform Fantasies” based on his new book of the same title.

If you’re interested in attending, sign up here to receive the Zoom link: go.wisc.edu/e3c4u1

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Margaret Andersen’s review of "Mother Trouble: Meditations of White Maternal Angst after Second Wave Feminism" by Miranda J. Brady is now up on the blog.

Read the review here: mosseprogram.wisc.edu/2025/03/03/a...

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Johannes von Moltke wrapped up his final lecture in this year’s George L. Mosse lecture series. Thank you to everyone who attended, and to Johannes von Moltke for his excellent series of talks! #GeorgeLMosseLectures #UWMadison #UWHistoryDept

Turning to texts published in the wake of WWII, von Moltke explores the ways in which these older texts can provide a basis from which to understand today’s metapolitics, with the 1930s radio hosts analyzed of then as the popular podcasters of today. #GeorgeLMosseLectures #UWMadison #UWHistoryDept

Johannes von Moltke opens his final lecture with an analysis of new right podcasts, and the ways in which they connect with their listeners, with purposeful shaping of everything from guests to ads to intros as they utilize metapolitical methods. #GeorgeLMosseLectures #UWMadison #UWHistoryDept

Thanks to Brandon Bloch for introducing Johannes von Moltke’s third and final lecture, “Podcasters of Deceit: Genealogies of Agitation and the Critical Theory of ‘Metapolitics’” of this year’s George L. Mosse lecture series. #GeorgeLMosseLectures #UWMadison #UWHistory

Food on the American Home Front | UW-Madison Libraries Exhibits

It’s #mossewednesday!
Up now on the library exhibits page, a new online exhibit by Mosse intern Olivia Kelly about rationing in the United States during WWI.
Link: exhibits.library.wisc.edu/wwi/food-hom...

Finishing up the second lecture with a reflection on Metapolitics not as a sharpening of concepts but as a propaganda effort, Johannes von Moltke laid the groundwork for his final lecture. Join us for it tomorrow at 4pm in the Pyle Center, room 213.

Johannes von Moltke highlights the ways in which the new right alters and uses progressive terms to promote right wing ideas, such as using the language of racism to attack diversity initiatives. #GeorgeLMosseLectures #UWMadison #UWHistory

Johannes von Moltke begins this lecture with a further exploration into how reading is used as a tool by the new right wing, specifically how Orwell's 1984 is turned from an anti-authoritarian text into a critique of the liberal left. #GeorgeLMosseLectures #UWMadison #UWHistory

Thanks to Mary Hennessy for her introduction of the second lecture in Johannes von Moltke’s lecture series, “The Identitarian Reflex: “Metapolitical” Strategies of Appropriation” #GeorgeLMosseLectures #UWMadison #UWHistory

Von Moltke finished his talk with descriptions of the next two lectures, which will investigate how metapolitics operate (Wednesday), as well as the new forms of agitation that are central to metapolitics (Thursday). Join us tomorrow at 11:45 for the next talk! #GeorgeLMosseLectures

Metapolitics lacks a physical center, living instead in globally networked digital world. However, von Moltke argues, if metapolitics had a physical form, it would be that of a university, as seen in efforts to reconquer the humanities and to push higher education towards the right. #mosselectures

Johannes von Moltke identifies “metapolitics” as a reactionary political concept, indexing a right-wing world view, no longer a neutral term. #GeorgeLMosseLectures #UWMadison #UWHistory