10/30- “Lessons for Today from Interwar Germany” Final Event: National Socialism and the Decline of the Weimar Republic

October 30, 2024 Amanda Rajnauth

Join tonight at 6:30 for a conversation between political scientist Sheri Berman (Barnard College, Columbia University) and sociologist John Torpey (The Graduate Center) on the topic of: National Socialism and the Decline of the Weimar Republic. This is the final event of the “Weimar and Us: Lessons for Today from Interwar Germany” series.

Address:

CUNY Graduate Center

365 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY 10016

The Skylight Room is on the 9th floor.

A major national election looms and the leader who years earlier had encouraged an insurrection is campaigning to a devoted audience. Politically tinged trials unfold in the courts, and political violence appears to be spreading amidst armed protests and assassination attempts. The above could describe Weimar Germany in the 1920s, but also characterizes the United States of America in 2024. This series seeks insights from the history of the Weimar Republic that might illuminate our current social and political climate—a fraught era for the American republic just as Weimar was for Germany.

Join political scientist Sheri Berman (Barnard College, Columbia University) and sociologist John Torpey (The Graduate Center) for a conversation about

National Socialism and the Decline of the Weimar Republic

Date and Location:

Wednesday, October 30, 2024
6:30 PM-8 PM, The Skylight Room, 9th Floor
The Graduate Center, CUNY (365 Fifth Avenue)

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Sheri Berman is a professor of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University. Her research interests include European history and politics; the development of democracy; populism and fascism; and the history of the left. She has written about these topics for a wide variety of scholarly and non-scholarly publications, including the New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, and VOX. She currently serves on the boards of the Journal of Democracy, Dissent and Political Science Quarterly. Her most recent book, Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe: From the Ancien Regime to the Present Day, was published by Oxford University Press in 2019.

John Torpey is Presidential Professor of Sociology and History and Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author or editor of a number of books, including Intellectuals, Socialism, and Dissent: The East German Opposition and its Legacy (University of Minnesota Press, 1995); The Invention of the Passport: Surveillance, Citizenship, and the State (Cambridge University Press, 2000; 2nd ed. 2018); Documenting Individual Identity: The Development of State Practices in the Modern World (edited with Jane Caplan; Princeton UP, 2001); Politics and the Past: On Repairing Historical Injustices (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004); Old Europe, New Europe, Core Europe: Transatlantic Relations after the Iraq War (Verso, 2005), Making Whole What Has Been Smashed: On Reparations Politics (Harvard University Press, 2006; paperback edition Rutgers University Press, 2017); The Post-Secular in Question (NYU Press, 2012); Legal Integration of Islam: A Transatlantic Comparison (with Christian Joppke; Harvard University Press, 2013); Transformations of Warfare in the Contemporary World (edited with David Jacobson; Temple University Press, 2017); and The Three Axial Ages: Moral, Material, Mental (Rutgers University Press, 2017). He is on the editorial board of Theory and Social Inquiry and edits a series for Temple University Press titled “Politics, History, and Social Change.” In 2016-2017, he was president of the Eastern Sociological Society.