Dr. Claudia Schoppmann is a well-known German historian. She is the author of Nationalsozialistische Sexualpolitik und weibliche Homosexualitaet (1991), on Nazi politics and female homosexuality, co-editor of Nach der Shoah geboren (1994), on second-generation Jewish women in Germany, and other books on German (women’s)history. Dr. Schoppmann’s work opens up new roads for further research in contemporary German societal issues.

She will read from her book Days of the Masquerade (1996), which presents the life stories of ten lesbians, both Jewish and non-Jewish, who lived through the Nazi era. The women Claudia Schoppmann interviewed, and others whose lives she reconstructs, took very different paths under the Nazi era.

This program is specifically recommended for students of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Women’s Studies, Modern German History, and Holocaust Studies. Q&A period follows.

This program has been co-sponsored by York University’s Canadian Centre for German and European Studies and Centre for Jewish Studies as well as by Hillel of Greater Toronto.

Time: 12:30 pm
Location: 230 York Lanes

Please RSVP to ccges@yorku.ca