Helmut Walser Smith, Vanderbilt University

Helmut Walser Smith (Vanderbilt University) and Jim Retallack (University of Toronto) will engage in a  public discussion at York on the topic of “Continuities in German History” on Friday, February 11th from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm in Vari Hall 1152A (building #30 on the map found here)

Prof. Walser Smith is a historian of modern Germany, with particular interests in the history of nation-building and nationalism, religious history, and the history of anti-Semitism. His book, The Butcher’s Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town (New York, 2002), received the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History and was an L.A. Times Non-Fiction Book of the Year. His most recent book is The Continuities of German History: Nation, Religion and Race Across the Long Nineteenth Century (2008) and he is the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Modern German History, scheduled to appear in 2011.

Prof. Retallack is a historian of Germany and Europe from the period of 1770 to 1945. His research interests include German regional history, nationalism, antisemitism, electoral politics, and historiography.  He is the General Editor of a new series published by Oxford University Press, Oxford Studies in Modern European History.

Date: Friday, February 11th
Time: 11:30 am – 1:30 pm
Location: Vari Hall 1152A