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Geoff Eley, "History, Memory, and the Second World War"

School of Humanities Distinguished Guest Geoff Eley will give a talk on "History, Memory, and the Second World War" on Friday, January 24th from 11am-12pm as a part of the Humanities Core Friday Forum.

Open to interested students, faculty, and community members.

Please contact Kate Triglia at ktriglia@uci.edu with questions.


GEOFF ELEY is the Karl Pohrt Distinguished University Professor of Contemporary History and just finished a term as Chair of the History Department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He works in the fields of Modern German and European History, with further interests in comparative fascism, film and history, and questions of historiography. His earliest works were Reshaping the German Right: Radical Nationalism and Political Change after Bismarck (1980, 1991) and The Peculiarities of German History (1980, 1984) jointly authored with David Blackbourn. Among his recent books are a history of the Left in Europe, Forging Democracy (2002), A Crooked Line: From Cultural History to the History of Society (2005), and (with Keith Nield) The Future of Class in History: What’s Left of the Social? (2007). With Bradley Naranch he is editing German Colonialism in a Global Age to be published by Duke University Press. Most recently, Nazism as Fascism: Violence, Ideology, and the Ground of Consent in Grmany, 1930-1945, was published by Routledge in July 2013. He continues working on a new study of the Right in Germany, Genealogies of Nazism: Conservatives, Radical Nationalists, Fasicsts in Germany, 1860-1945. This year he will finish a general history of Europe in the twentieth century.