Jonathon Catlin, Response to Jennifer Evans"

Описание: 60 Years: Fascism Seminar Revisited

mosseprogram.wisc.edu/rome

12 January 2025

Session XI: Continuities of Fascism

Jennifer Evans, "Continuities of Fascism"
Moderated by Mary Louise Roberts
Responses by Mary Nolan, Jonathon Catlin

Sponsored by:
George L. Mosse Program in History
American Academy in Rome
Sapienza Università di Roma
Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism
Leo Baeck Institute

Mary Louise Roberts is the emeriti WARF Distinguished Lucie Aubrac Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She earned a B.A. from Wesleyan University, an M.A. from Sarah Lawrence College, and her Ph.D. from Brown University. Her specialization is women and gender, France, and the Second World War. Her books include Disruptive Acts: The New Woman in Fin-De-Siecle France (2002); What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France (2013); D-Day through French Eyes (2014) and Sheer Misery: Soldiers in Battle in WWII (2021).

Jennifer Evans is Professor of European History at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, where she teaches about the history of sexuality, photography, and memory. In 2023, she published The Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship After Fascism. She co-edited a Festschrift in honor of her former Ph.D. supervisor and human rights historian Jean Quataert entitled Gender in Germany and Beyond with Shelley Rose and published the jointly written monograph Holocaust Memory in the Digital Mediascape together with Meghan Lundrigan and Erica Fraser. Evans’s next book, How Photography Shaped the Sexual Revolution traces the role of image making in this period of social and legal change. She is currently researching another book-length project on the history of German drag, funded by the Humboldt Foundation’s Adenauer Prize. In addition to overseeing a many multi-platform big data project on social media, online hate, and the weaponization of history, she is co-curator of the New Fascism Syllabus and a founding member of the German Studies Collaboratory.

Mary Nolan is Professor of History emerita at New York University. She works on twentieth-century European-American relations, on social and economic human rights in the age of neoliberalism, and on the gender politics of right radical populism in Europe. She is the author of Social Democracy and Society: Working-class Radicalism in Düsseldorf, 1890-1920 (1981); Visions of Modernity: American Business and the Modernization of Germany (1994); The Transatlantic Century: Europe and America, 1890-2010 (2012); and America’s Century in Europe: Reflections on Americanization, Anti-Americanism and the Transatlantic Partnership (2023). She also co-edited Crimes of War: Guilt and Denial in the Twentieth Century (2002); The University against Itself: The NYU Strike and the Future of the Academic Workplace (2008); and The Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties (2018). She is on the steering committee of Historians for Peace and Democracy and has compiled “The Culture Wars Against Education Archive,” which tracks the current right wing attacks on education on all levels.

Jonathon Catlin is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Humanities Center at the University of Rochester, where he also teaches in the Department of History. He earned his Ph.D. in History and Interdisciplinary Humanities from Princeton University in 2023. His dissertation and current book project is a history of the concept of catastrophe in twentieth-century German thought, from the First World War to the climate crisis, with a focus on German and Jewish thinkers including the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. His research has been published in History and Theory, Memory Studies, Radical Philosophy, Antisemitism Studies, and edited volumes about the Frankfurt School and antisemitism, Zygmunt Bauman, and environmental apocalypse. He has also written on topics including Holocaust memory, the AIDS and Covid-19 pandemics, and representations of climate catastrophe for popular publications including the Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Seminar, HuffPost, The Point, The Spectator, and the Journal of the History of Ideas Blog, where he is a contributing editor.

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In 1963, historian George L. Mosse led a landmark seminar at Stanford University, bringing together scholars from diverse disciplines and countries to analyze the history of Nazism and Italian Fascism, just eighteen years after World War II. Their discussions defined the early parameters of European fascism amidst the post-war era’s intellectual landscape.

Sixty years later, the George L. Mosse Program in History organized a multi-day conference from January 9 to January 12, 2025, to reassess fascism in the context of contemporary European movements. More than thirty scholars from the US, Europe, the UK, and Israel gathered to critically examine and redefine “fascism” in light of present-day populist, anti-democratic, illiberal, and authoritarian ideologies.