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Date: Dec 02, 2008
Visiting Presidential Scholar, Alumnus to Speak on Totalitarianism and Genocide
Anson Rabinbach ’67, specialist in modern European history, at Hofstra for two-day visit
Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY – Anson Rabinbach '67, a professor of history at Princeton University and a specialist in modern European history with an emphasis on intellectual and cultural history, will give a public lecture on "Concepts That Came In From The Cold: Totalitarianism and Genocide" on Wednesday, December 3, 2008, at 4:30 p.m. in the Student Center Theater, Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center, North Campus.
Dr. Raninbach’s lecture is sponsored by the Hofstra University Office of the President and Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The program is part of Hofstra's Visiting Presidential Scholar program that brings guest lecturers from many disciplines to campus for multi-day visits that include a public lecture and guest teaching. The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information on the lecture contact Dr. Neil Donahue at (516) 463-5442.
Dr. Rabinbach has published extensively on Nazi Germany, Austria, and European thought in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In 1974, he co-founded the premier journal of German studies in the United States, New German Critique, which he continues to co-edit. In 1979 he published "The Crisis of Austrian Socialism: From Red Vienna to Civil War 1927-1934" a study of Austrian culture and politics between the wars. He is the author of "The Human Motor: Energy, Fatigue and the Origins of Modernity" (University of California Press, 1991), an investigation of the metaphor of work and energy as a new scientific and cultural framework to understand the human body, and "In the Shadow of Catastrophe: German Intellectuals Between Apocalypse and Enlightenment" (University of California Press, 1997). His current research is on the culture of Nazi Germany and on post-World War II exchanges between European and American intellectuals.
He has written for The New York Times, The Times Literary Supplement, Dissent, and The Nation. He received the Viktor Adler State Prize in 1987 and has received Guggenheim, ACLS, and NEH fellowships.
Dr. Rabinbach graduated from Hofstra in 1967 and earned his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin in 1973.
Hofstra University is a dynamic private institution where students can choose from about 140 undergraduate and 155 graduate programs in liberal arts and sciences, business, engineering, communication, education and allied human services, and honors studies, as well as a School of Law. With a student-faculty ratio of 14-to-1, our professors teach small classes averaging 22 students that emphasize interaction, critical thinking and analysis. Hofstra offers a faculty whose highest priority is teaching excellence. The University also provides excellent facilities with state-of-the-art technology, extensive library resources and internship programs that match students’ interests and abilities with appropriate companies and organizations. The Hofstra community is driven, dynamic and energetic, helping students find and focus their strengths to prepare them for a successful future.
Dr. Raninbach’s lecture is sponsored by the Hofstra University Office of the President and Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The program is part of Hofstra's Visiting Presidential Scholar program that brings guest lecturers from many disciplines to campus for multi-day visits that include a public lecture and guest teaching. The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information on the lecture contact Dr. Neil Donahue at (516) 463-5442.
Dr. Rabinbach has published extensively on Nazi Germany, Austria, and European thought in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In 1974, he co-founded the premier journal of German studies in the United States, New German Critique, which he continues to co-edit. In 1979 he published "The Crisis of Austrian Socialism: From Red Vienna to Civil War 1927-1934" a study of Austrian culture and politics between the wars. He is the author of "The Human Motor: Energy, Fatigue and the Origins of Modernity" (University of California Press, 1991), an investigation of the metaphor of work and energy as a new scientific and cultural framework to understand the human body, and "In the Shadow of Catastrophe: German Intellectuals Between Apocalypse and Enlightenment" (University of California Press, 1997). His current research is on the culture of Nazi Germany and on post-World War II exchanges between European and American intellectuals.
He has written for The New York Times, The Times Literary Supplement, Dissent, and The Nation. He received the Viktor Adler State Prize in 1987 and has received Guggenheim, ACLS, and NEH fellowships.
Dr. Rabinbach graduated from Hofstra in 1967 and earned his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin in 1973.
Hofstra University is a dynamic private institution where students can choose from about 140 undergraduate and 155 graduate programs in liberal arts and sciences, business, engineering, communication, education and allied human services, and honors studies, as well as a School of Law. With a student-faculty ratio of 14-to-1, our professors teach small classes averaging 22 students that emphasize interaction, critical thinking and analysis. Hofstra offers a faculty whose highest priority is teaching excellence. The University also provides excellent facilities with state-of-the-art technology, extensive library resources and internship programs that match students’ interests and abilities with appropriate companies and organizations. The Hofstra community is driven, dynamic and energetic, helping students find and focus their strengths to prepare them for a successful future.
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