May 13, 9:00 AM: Dagmar Herzog, Workshop: "God’s Disability: A European History"

Dagmar Herzog Distinguished Professor of History, City University of New York Workshop: "God’s Disability: A European History" The theme of disability intersects many of the big questions of Europe’s twentieth century, even as the terms in which those questions are understood were fundamentally transformed by the cataclysm of the middle of the century. The mass murder of the disabled was a crucial precursor to the mass murder of European Jewry, but the lessons supposedly emerging from those intertwined murders were interpreted differently over time, and have been filled with yet new content and been subject to new contestations in the quarter-century since the collapse of Communism after four decades of Cold War. This workshop will provide an opportunity to consult primary sources from the 1960s and the 2000s as we reconsider issues of memory politics, theories of secularization and religious revival, sexuality, racism, and reproduction from the vantage point of critical disability studies. Presented by the Precarious Citizenship series

Date: May 13, 2015
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:20 AM