Alon Confino
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Curriculum Vitae
I. PROFESSIONAL TRAJECTORY Education: Ph.D. History, University of California, Berkeley, 1992 M.A. History, University of California, Berkeley, 1986 B.A. History, Tel Aviv University, 1985
Professional Positions: Full Professor of History, Ben Gurion University, Israel, 2013-- Full Professor of History, University of Virginia, 2006-- Associate Professor of History, University of Virginia, 1998-2006 Assistant Professor of History, University of Virginia, 1992-1998
Visiting and Professional Appointments: Directeur d’etudes, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France, 2017, postponed. Associate Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia, 2013—present. Associate Fellow, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia, 2011-2012, for the digital history project “Palestine, 1948.” Visiting Fellow, Department of History and Civilization, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, 2009-10 Co-director of project “Forced Migration and Ethnic Cleansing in the Modern World,” University of Virginia, 2009-2012 Visiting Professor, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2006-2007 Visiting Professor, Tel Aviv University, 2006 Visiting Professor, NYU/UVa in London, 2003 Directeur d’etudes, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France, 1999
Literary Representation: Will Lippincott, LMQ: Lippincott Massie McQuilkin, New York
II. PUBLICATIONS: Just Published: A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide (Yale University Press, 2014). The project won a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship. Check out this video trailer on YouTube: http://youtu.be/C1BwavNXK-k Nominated by Yale UP for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award Foreign translations: Brazil (2016); Israel (2016); Italy (2017)
Recently published: 2
Foundational Pasts: The Holocaust As Historical Understanding (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012). Finalist, Yad Vashem 2013 International Book Prize for Holocaust Research
Books (authored and edited volumes): Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany. Co-edited with Paul Betts and Dirk Schumann (New York: Berghahn Press, 2008). Germany As a Culture of Remembrance: Promises and Limits of Writing History (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006). http://uncpress.unc.edu/books/T-7341.html The Work of Memory: New Directions in the Study of German Society and Culture. Co-edited with Peter Fritzsche (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002). The Nation As a Local Metaphor: Württemberg, Imperial Germany, and National Memory, 1871-1918 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997). (Reprinted, 2004). Winner of the Charles Smith Book Prize of the European section of the Southern Historical Association, 1998.
Edited Special-Issue of Journals: “Histories and Memories of Twentieth Century Germany.” A special double-issue of History and Memory 17/1-2 (2005). “Viewed from the Locality: the Local, National, and Global.” Co-edited with Ajay Skaria. A special issue of National Identities 4/1 (March 2002). “Regimes of Consumer Culture.” Co-edited with Rudy Koshar. A special issue of German History 19/2 (2001).
Chapters in Books: “The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide: A World Without Jews,” in Lauren Falkner and Wendy Lower, eds., Lesson and Legacies of the Holocaust (Northwestern University Press, 2016, forthcoming). “The Holocaust as a Symbolic Manual: The French Revolution, the Holocaust, and Global Memories,” in Haim Hazan and Amos Goldberg, eds., Marking Evil: The Dialectic of Globalizing the Holocaust (New York: Berghahn Press, 2015), pp. 56-69. “Entretien: Alon Hilu dialogue avec Alon Confino,” in Marie Panter, Pascale Mounier, Monica Martinat, et Matthieu Devigne, eds., Imagination et histoire: enjoux contemporains (Rennes, 2014), pp. 297-307. “A World Without Jews: Interpreting the Holocaust,” in Dan Stone, ed., The Holocaust and Historical Methodology (New York: Berghahn Press, 2012), pp. 23-43, orig. pub. in German History 27/4 (October 2009). “History and Memory,” in Axel Schneider and Daniel Woolf, eds., The Oxford History of Historical Writing. Vol. 5 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 36-51. In Chinese: “记忆研究的方法问题,”Historiography Quarterly, 3, 2012, (《史学理论研究》2012年第3期）and in "History and Memory" (lishi yu jiyi), Tianjin Social Siences (Tianjin shehui kexue), Issue 6, 2014, pp. 126-132. 3
“The Virtue and Tyranny of the Past,” in Dan Diner, Gideon Reuveni, and Yfaat Weiss, eds., Der Historiker als Vermittler. Festschrift für Moshe Zimmermann (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2012), pp. 313-323. “Collective Memory and Cultural History: Problems of Method,” in Jeffrey Olick, Vered Vinitsky-Seroussi, and Daniel Levy, eds., The Collective Memory Reader (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), orig. pub. in American Historical Review 105/2 (December 1997). “Narrative Form and Historical Sensation: On Saul Friedländer’s The Years of Extermination,” in Christian Wiese and Paul Betts, eds., Years of Persecution, Years of Extermination: Saul Friedländer and the Future of Holocaust Studies (London: Continuum, 2010), pp. 33-54, orig. pub in History and Theory 48/3 (October 2009), pp. 199-219. “Enzo e Emilio Sereni fra sionismo e comunismo: il cammino della storia,” in Abdon Alinovi et al, eds., Emilio Sereni: ritrovare la memoria (Naples, Italy, 2010), pp. 167-182. “Memory and the History of Mentalities,” in Astrid Erll and Ansgar Nünning, eds., Cultural Memory Studies: An International and Interdisciplinary Handbook (Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008), pp. 77-84. “The Past as Memory and Oblivion,” in Jessica Feldman and Robert Stilling, eds., What Should I Read Next? 70 University of Virginia Professors Recommend Readings in History, Politics, Literature, Math, Science, Technology, the Arts, and More (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008), pp. 1-5. “Death, Spiritual Solace, and Afterlife: Between Nazism and Religion,” in Confino, Paul Betts, and Dirk Schumann, eds., Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany (New York: Berghahn Press, 2008), pp. 219-231. “Introduction: Death in Twentieth-Century Germany,” co-written with Paul Betts and Dirk Schumann. In Confino, Betts, Schumann, eds., Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany (New York: Berghahn Press, 2008), pp. 1-22. “The Travels of Bettina Humpel: One Stasi File and Narratives of State and Self in East Germany,” in Paul Betts and Katherine Pence, eds., Socialist Modern: East German Politics, Society, and Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008), pp. 133-154. “Freud, Moses, and Modern Nationhood,” in Ruth Ginsburg and Ilana Pardes, eds., New Perspectives on Freud’s Moses and Monotheism, (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2006), pp. 165-175. Published in Hebrew in Mikarov 15 (Spring 2005): 76-88. “Collective Memory and Cultural History: Problems of Method,” in Robert Burns, ed., Historiography: Critical Concepts in Historical Studies (London: Routledge, 2005), orig. pub. in American Historical Review 105/2 (December 1997). “Dissonance, Normality and the Historical Method: Why did some Germans Think of Tourism after May 8, 1945?” in Life after Death: Approaches to a Cultural and Social History of Europe during the 1940s and 1950s, eds. Richard Bessel and Dirk Schumann (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 323-347. 4
“Noises of the Past.” Co-written with Peter Fritzsche. In: The Work of Memory: New Directions in the Study of German Society and Culture. Co-edited with Peter Fritzsche (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002), pp. 1-21. “Federalism and the Heimat Idea in Imperial Germany,” in German Federalism: Past, Present, and Future, ed. Maiken Umbach (London: Macmillan, 2002), pp. 70-90. “‘This lovely country you will never forget.’ Kriegserinnerungen und Heimatkonzepte in der westdeutschen Nachkriegszeit,” in Das Erbe der Provinz. Heimatkultur und Geschichtspolitik in Deutschland nach 1945, ed. Habbo Knoch (Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2001), pp. 235-251. “Konzepte von Heimat, Region, Nation und Staat in Württemberg von der Reichsgründungszeit bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg,” in Föderative Nation: Deutschlandkonzepte von der Reformation bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg, ed. Dieter Langewiesche and Georg Schmidt (Munich: Oldenbourg, 2000), pp. 345-359. “Consumer Culture is in Need of Attention: German Cultural Studies and the Commercialization of the Past,” in A User’s Guide to German Cultural Studies, ed. Scott Denham, et al (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997), pp. 181-188.
Refereed Journal Articles: “Between the Holocaust and the Nakba,” a review essay on Shoah and Nakba: Memory, National Identity and Jewish-Arab Partnership, edited by Bashir Bashir and Amos Goldberg (Jerusalem, 2015, in Hebrew) in “Haokets. Critical platform on socioeconomic, political, media, cultural and other issues in Israel and beyond” and in H/Soz/Kult, April 2016.
“History of Emotions,” a forum in German History, vol. 28/1 (2010): 67-80. “The Historian’s Representations,” Zmanim: A Historical Quarterly 108 (Autumn 2009): 92-105 (in Hebrew). “A World Without Jews: Interpreting the Holocaust,” German History 27/4 (October 2009): 531-559. “Narrative Form and Historical Sensation: On Saul Friedländer’s The Years of Extermination,” History and Theory 48/3 (October 2009): 199-219. A Forum with Christopher Browning and Amos Goldberg. “Writing, Not only Remembering, the History of ‘67,” Yisrael 13 (2008): 295- 310 (in Hebrew). “On the Liberation from the Tyranny of the Past: Jews and Arabs in Israel,” Alpayim 32 (December 2007): 49-59 (in Hebrew). “Lo local, una esencia de toda nación," Ayer 64/4 (2006): 19-31. A special issue: La construcción de la identidad regional en Europa y España. “Intellectuals and the Lure of Exile: Home and Exile in the Autobiographies of Edward Said and George Steiner,” The Hedgehog Review (Fall 2005): 20-28. “Remembering the Second World War, 1945-1965: Narratives of Victimhood and Genocide,” Cultural Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Forum on Folklore and Popular Culture 4, 2005: on line journal.
Reich, 1871-1918,” Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft 44/5 (1996): 421-435. In Hebrew: Zmanim: A Historical Quarterly 60, Fall 1997: 18-28.
Non Refereed Articles, Short Pieces, Interviews: “Why the Nazis Burned the Hebrew Bible,” Commentary, June 1, 2014. "The Holocaust is Over: Alon Confino in Conversation with Chrissy Monaghan and Jakub Muchowski." Rocznik Antropologii Historii, 2013, rok III, nr 1(4): 343-354, in Polish. Preface to Ruth Bondi, Enzo Sereni: L’emissario (Aosta, 2012), 7-22. “On the Liberation from the Tyranny of the Past: Arabs and Jews in Israel,” Historically Speaking 15, 5 (November 2010): 30-33. “Memory Brewing under the Earth: on Christoph Maier’s ‘The Unseen Camp: Audio Walk in Gusen,’” Protocols of History and Theory (on-line journal of Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem) 14 (October 2009): http://bezalel.secured.co.il/zope/home/he/1252746792/1255796689 “Preface,” to Karolin Machtans, Zwischen Wissenschaft und autobiographischem Projekt: Saul Friedländer und Ruth Klüger (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2009), pp. XI- XII. “Stranded in the Present,” Tikkun Online, special issue on “Israel at 60”, May 2008. http://www.tikkun.org/magazine/tik0805/politics/webarticles/stranded “Before the Locked Gate: The History and Memory of the 1967 War,” Haaretz (Sfarim: Book Review Supplement), June 6, 2007: 20-21 (in Hebrew). http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArtSR.jhtml?objNo=60104&returnPara m=Y&itemNo=866884&objNo=60104&returnParam=Y “Changing Eternity with a Historical Modesty: History and Memory in Israel and Palestine,” Haaretz (Sfarim: Book Review Supplement), April 18, 2007: 10-11 (in Hebrew). http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/spages/849473.html “Bittere Wahrheiten in Nahost,” Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik, (July 2001): 775-779. “National Holidays” and “Memory, Collective” in Dieter Buse and Jürgen Doerr, eds., Modern Germany: An Encyclopedia of History, People, and Culture, 1871-1990 (New York: Garland, 1998): 648-649, 682. “Nationalism,” in Daniel R. Woolf, ed., A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing (New York: Garland, 1998), 650-651. “Alltagsgeschichte” and “Collective Memory,” in Peter Stearns, ed., The Encyclopedia of Social History (New York: Garland, 1994), 27, 149-150. “On Disney's America: Consumer Culture and Perceptions of the Past,” Perspectives. American Historical Association Newsletter, March 1995: 8-10.
Book and Film Reviews: Dan McMillan, How Could this Happen: Explaining the Holocaust (New York: Basic Books, 2014). In: German Studies Review, 39, 2 (May 2016): 415-416. Paul Cohen, History and Popular Memory: The Power of Story in Moments of Crisis (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014). In: American Historical Review, 120, 4 (2015): 1442-1443. Jonathan Petropoulos and John Roth, eds., Gray Zones: Ambiguity and Compromise in the Holocaust and Its Aftermath (New York: Berghahn Books, 2005). In: Patterns of Prejudice 42/2 (May 2008): 243-244. 7
Jay Winter, Remembering War: The Great War Between Memory and History in the Twentieth Century (Yale University Press: New Haven, 2006). In: American Historical Review (October 2007): 1132-1133. Kristin Semmens, Seeing Hitler’s Germany. Tourism in the Third Reich (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). In: German History 25/1 (January 2007): 114- 116. Siegfried Weichlein, Nation und Region. Integrationsprozesse im Bismarckreich (Düsseldorf, 2004). In: Neue Politische Literatur 49 (2004): 500-502. Wolfgang Schivelbusch, The Culture of Defeat: On National Trauma, Mourning, and Recovery (Metropolitan Books: New York, 2003). In: American Historical Review 109/2 (April 2004): 486-487. Rudy Koshar, editor, Histories of Leisure (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2002). In: German History 22/2 (2004): 306-307. Abigail Green, Fatherlands: State-Building and Nationhood in Nineteenth- Century Germany (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001) and Michael Müller and Rolf Petri, eds., Die Nationalisierung von Grenzen. Zur Konstruktion nationler Identität in sprachlich gemischten Grenzregionen (Verlag: Herder- Institut: Marburg, 2002). In: Central European History 37/1 (March 2004): 149- 154. Joe Cleary, Literature, Partition, and the Nation State: Culture and Conflict in Ireland, Israel and Palestine (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002). In: Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 3/3 (Winter 2002): (on line journal) http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_colonialism_and_colonial_history/v003/ 3.3confino.html Maria Bucur and Nancy Wingfield, eds., Staging the Past: The Politics of Commemoration in Habsburg Central Europe, 1848 to the Present (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2001). In: American Historical Review (December 2002): 1662-1663. John Dickie, Darkest Italy: The Nation and Stereotypes of the Mezzogiorno, 1860-1900 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999). In: Mediterranean Historical Review 17/1 (June 2002): 77-80. Andreas Glaeser, Divided in Unity: Identity, Germany, and the Berlin Police (The University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 2000). In: Central European History 35/2 (2002):320-322. Michael Maurer, ed., Neue Impulse der Reiseforschung (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1999). In: German History 18/3 (2000): 389-390. “42 Up, directed by Michael Apted.” A film review. In: American Historical Review (June 2000): 1064-1065. Kirsten Belgum, Popularizing the Nation: Audience, representation, and the Production of Identity in Die Gartenlaube, 1853-1900 (University of Nebraska Press: Lincoln, 1998). In: Nineteenth-Century Prose 27/1 (Spring 2000): 108- 113. Christine Keitz, Reisen als Leitbild: Die Entstehung des modernen Massentourismus in Deutschland (Munich: DTV, 1997) and Christoph Hennig, Reiselust: Touristen, Tourismus, und Urlaubskultur (Frankfurt a/M: Insel Verlag, 1997). In: German History 17/3 (1999): 438-440. 8
T. Hunt Tooley, National Identity and Weimar Germany: Upper Silesia and the Eastern Border, 1918-1922 (University of Nebraska Press: Lincoln, 1997). In: Journal of Interdisciplinary History 29 (Summer 1998): 120-121. Michael Berkowitz, Zionist Culture and West European Jewry before the First World War (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993). In: Modern Judaism 16 (February 1996): 96-98. Hans Ester, Hans Hecker, Erika Poettgens, eds., Deutschland, aber wo liegt es? Deutschland und Mitteleuropa. Analysen und historische Dokumente (Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi B.V., 1993) and Wolf D. Gruner, Deutschland mitten in Europa. Aspekte und Perspektiven der deutschen Frage in Geschichte und Gegenwart (Hamburg: R. Krämer, 1992). In: German History, 13/2 (1995): 281-283. Robert Rosenstone (ed.), Revisioning History: Film and the Construction of a New Past (Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ, 1995). In: Secuencias. Revista de historia del cine (October 1995): 142-143. “35 Up, directed by Michael Apted.” A film review. In: American Historical Review, October 1994.
Editorial Work: Co-editor 2004-2012 (with Jörn Rüsen and Allan Megill) of series: Making Sense of History: Studies in Intellectual History, Historiography, and Historical Culture, Berghahn Books (New York and Oxford). I quit the editorship in 2012 and am now a member of the board. Vol. 16: Dan Stone, ed., The Holocaust and Historical Methodology (2012). Vol. 15: Jacques Ehrenfreund, Jewish Memory, German Nationality: The Jews in Berlin during the Belle Époque (in preparation). Vol. 14: Jürgen Straub and Jörn Rüsen, eds., Dark Traces of the Past (2010). Vol. 13: Luisa Passerini, ed., New Dangerous Liaisons (2010). Vol. 12: Mamadou Diawara, Bernard Lategan, and Jörn Rüsen, eds., Historical Memory in Africa: Dealing with the Past, Reaching for the Future in an Intercultural Context (2010). Vol. 11: Stefan Berger, Linas Eriksonas and Andrew Mycock, eds., Narrating the Nation: Representations in History, Media and the Arts (2008). Vol. 10: Jörn Rüsen, ed., Time and History: The Variety of Cultures (2007) Vol. 9: Helga Nowotny, ed., Cultures of Technology and the Quest for Innovation (2006). Vol. 8: Mihai I. Spariosu, Remapping Knowledge: Intercultural Studies for a Global Age (2006). Vol. 7: Jörn Rüsen, ed., Meaning and Representation in History (2006). Vol. 6: Werner Abelshauser, The Dynamics of German Industry: Germany's Path toward the New Economy and the American Challenge (2005). Vol. 5: Jörn Rüsen, History: Narration, Interpretation, Orientation (2005) Vol. 4: Jörn Rüsen, Michael Fehr, and Thomas Rieger, eds. Thinking Utopia: Steps into Other Worlds (2005). Vol. 3: Jürgen Straub, ed., Narration, Identity, and Historical Consciousness (2005).
III. FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS Woodrow Wilson Center Fellowship, Washington, DC, 2016-2017. 9
Jules Roos and Samuel Grunfeld Research Fellowship in Israel, Jewish Studies Program, University of Virginia, summer 2015. Fellow, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, University of Virginia, fall 2014. Short term resident fellow, Miller Center for Historical Studies, History Department, University of Maryland, 2013 (postponed). Fellow, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, University of Virginia, spring 2013 (decline). Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia, 2012- 13. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 2011. Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, Diane and Howard Wohl Fellowship, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2010 (decline). The Lady Davis Visiting Professorship, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2006. Institute of Advanced Studies, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2005-2006: Member of the research team “Ethnography, Literature, Experience.” University of Virginia: Research Summer Grant, 2014, 2012, 2011, 2004, 2003, 2001, 1995. Humboldt-Stiftung: The Humboldt Fellowship, Berlin, 1999-2000. Social Science Research Council: The Berlin Program Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 1996-1997. Israel Academy of Sciences: Wolfsohn Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 1992-1993. Tel Aviv University, Institute for German History: Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 1992-1993. University of California, Berkeley: Chancellor Fellowship, 1991-1992. University of California, Berkeley, Institute of International Studies: John L. Simpson Fellowship, 1991-1992. University of California, Berkeley: Hans Rosenberg Fellowship for European Studies, 1990-1991. DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Fellowship for doctoral research in West Germany, 1988-1990. University of California, Berkeley: Humanities Dissertation Research Grant, 1988. Social Science Research Council: Doctoral Research Fellowship for Western Europe, 1988. Tel Aviv University, Institute for German History: Doctoral Research Fellowship, 1988. Fulbright Fellowship to support two years of graduate work toward the Ph.D., 1985-1987 at UC Berkeley. DAAD, Goethe Institute Language Course, Berlin, summer 1984.
IV. TALKS Invited Talks:
Participant in the workshop “Israel-Palestine: Lands and Peoples: The Holocaust and the Nakba: A New Grammar of Conflicting Historical Traumas,” Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, November 2016, forthcoming. 10
“A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide.” Jewish Federation of Tulsa and The Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art, Tulsa, OK, November 2016, forthcoming. “A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide.” Holocaust Museum Houston, October 2016, forthcoming. “A Round Table: To Study and Teach the Holocaust and Genocide in Israel and Palestine, a Site of Conflict.” A special session organized by me in the International Network of Genocide Scholars conference, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, June 2016. “Provincializing the Holocaust: On Holocaust History and Memory,” In conference “The Shoah: A Turning Point? The Challenge to Concepts and Paradigms in Jewish, Christian, and Humanist Thought,” Bar Ilan University, Israel, June 2016. “A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide.” Franklin Center, Duke University, April 2016. “How did the Nazis Interpret Anew the Jewish Past and How Do Some Jews Today Interpret Anew the Holocaust Past?” Reconsidering Antisemitism: Past and Present, conference at Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, UNC Chapel Hill, April 2016. “1948 in Palestine: Human Rights and Self Determination,” The Minerva Center for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, the Hebrew University, March 2016. “A World with and Without Jews: Some Thoughts on Holocaust History and Memory,” Department of History, UCLA, March 2016. “Writing 1948: Jews and Palestinians between Local Experience and Global History,” Department of History, George Washington University, February 2016. “Writing Holocaust History, Then and Now,” keynote speech at the international conference in honor of Dan Michman, “New Perspectives on Fundamental Issues in Modern Jewish History and the Holocaust,” Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, December 2015. “The Holocaust, Genocide, and the Bible,” two talks given to Israeli teachers at Yad Vashem Teaching Center, Jerusalem, November 2015. Participants in the workshop “Israel-Palestine, Lands and People: I. Brainstorming Session,” Brown University, the Watson Institute for International Studies, November 2015. “A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide,” Brown University, Department of History and Judaic Studies, November 2015. “A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide,” Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies, Appalachian State University, October 2015. “The Nakba: History and Memory in Fragments,” in 2nd Seminar of the Israel Academic Exchange Program on mass violence at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, September 2015. “The Warm Sand of the Coast of Tantura: History and Memory in Israel after 1948,” conference “Memory and Recollection: Interdisciplinary Dialogue between History and Sociology,” Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, May 2015. Keynote “Some Thoughts on History and Memory in Israel and Palestine,” international workshop “Precarious commemoration, state, and challenging voices: Palestinians citizens of Israel,” Humboldt University, Berlin, May 2015. 11
“A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide.” The Raoul Wallenberg Annual Lecture, Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, Rutgers University, April 2015. “A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide.” Schusterman Center for Judaic & Israel Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, April 2015. “A Tinge of Sadness: Writing 1948 in Palestine and Israel.” Department of History, University of Oklahoma, Norman, April 2015. “The Warm Sand of the Coast of Tantura: History and Memory in Israel after 1948,” Middle East Working Group and the Department of History and Civilization, European University Institute, Florence, February 2015. “A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide.” Keynote speech at workshop “A Jew-Free Europe: Anti-Semitic Imagining,” Department of History and Civilization, European University Institute, Florence, February 2015. “A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide,” Department of History, University of Chicago, January, 2015. “A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide” and “The Warm Sand of the Coast of Tantura: History and Memory in Israel after 1948,” NYU Department of History, the Kevorkian Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and Taub Center for Israel Studies, November 2014. “A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide.” Fairfield University, November 2014. “A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide.” George Washington University, Judaic Studies Program, November 2014. “A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide.” Concordia University, Montreal, November 2014. “The Warm Sand of the Coast of Tantura: History and Memory in Israel after 1948.” McGill University, Montreal, November 2014. “A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide.” Jewish Studies, Columbia University, September 2014. “Why Did the Nazis Burn the Hebrew Bible? Nazi Germany, Representations of the Past, and the Holocaust,” Yad Vashem, Center for Holocaust Studies, Jerusalem, May 2014. “1948 in Palestine and Global Forced Migrations in the 1940s.” A special panel on Settlement Fantasies in the Aftermath of the Second World War. The Hebrew University, May 2014. “Why Did the Nazis Burn the Hebrew Bible? Nazi Germany, Representations of the Past, and the Holocaust,” Department of History, Bar Ilan University, Israel, April 2014. “Palestinian Nationhood—Past and Present,” round table, Cherrick Center for the Study of Zionism, The Hebrew University, May 2014. “1948 in Palestine in Global Perspective,” conference on Global Conflict and Conflict Management: Israel/Palestine and Beyond, University of Oxford, May 2014. “Palestine, 1948,” Lecture series: The Best of UVA: A Collection of Unforgettable Lectures, University of Virginia, April 2014. “1948 in Palestine: History, Imagination, and Empathy,” Jews and Arabs between the Jordan River and the Sea, Kibutzim College, Tel Aviv, April 2014. 12
“Why Did the Nazis Burn the Hebrew Bible? Nazi Germany, Representations of the Past, and the Holocaust,” Department of Contemporary Judaism, Hebrew University, March 2014. “Why Did the Nazis Burn the Hebrew Bible? Nazi Germany, Representations of the Past, and the Holocaust,” Department of History, University of Maryland, November 2013. Master class on “Foundational Pasts” and the Holocaust, Department of History, University of Maryland, November 2013. “Why Did the Nazis Burn the Hebrew Bible? Nazi Germany, Representations of the Past, and the Holocaust,” Zeithistorische Perpektiven lecture series of the Goethe Institute in Amsterdam in collaboration with the Duitsland Instituut and the Department of History, University of Amsterdam, Holland, October 2013. “Memory and History,” master class, Department of History, University of Amsterdam, Holland, October 2013. “Why Did the Nazis Burn the Hebrew Bible? Nazi Germany, Representations of the Past, and the Holocaust," endowed lecture, Tennessee Technological University, September 2013. “Nakba, 1948: History and Memory in Fragments,” Culture and Catastrophe Workshop, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia, May 2013. “Why Did the Nazis Burn the Hebrew Bible? Nazi Germany, Representations of the Past, and the Holocaust," Williams College, April 2013. Workshop “Transitions to New Political Order in Divided Societies: Comparative Lessons for Israel/Palestine,” Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, March 2013. “A World Without Jews: Nazis, Memory, and the Holocaust,” Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, January 2013. A Dialogue with Alon Hilu, an Israeli author, on fiction and history. International conference “Imagination et Histoire: enjeux contemporains,” ENS de Lyon and Université Lyon, November 2012. “‘A Tinge of Sadness’: Writing 1948,” conference on “Debating History and Memory: Global and Local Dimensions,” Stanford University, May 2012. “Why Did the Nazis Burn the Hebrew Bible?” Department of History, Indiana University, Bloomington, April 2012. “A World Without Jews: Nazis, Memory, and the Holocaust,” keynote address to the Southeast German Studies Workshop, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, March 2012. "A World Without Jews: Nazi Germany, Representations of the Past, and the Holocaust," Sociology Department, University of Virginia, February 2012. “History and Memory,” International, Interdisciplinary conference on the humanities at the Dahlem Humanities Center, Free University of Berlin, November 2011. “Why Did the Nazis Burn the Hebrew Bible?” History Department Seminar, Johns Hopkins University, October 2011. “The Coast of Tantura: 1948 and After,” Writing Space: An International Symposium, Stony Brook University, Manhattan, August 2011. “Nazism, Space, and Memory,” Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 2011. 13
“Why Did the Nazis Burn the Hebrew Bible?” Jewish Studies Workshop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 2011. “A World Without Jews: Nazi Representations of the Past and the Holocaust,” David and Sara Rabin Holocaust Memorial Lecture, Jewish Studies Program, Michigan State University, April 2011. “A World Without Jews: Nazi Representations of the Past and the Holocaust,” Holocaust Memorial Center, West Bloomfield, Detroit, Michigan, April 2011. “Miracles and Snow in Israel: 1948 as History and Memory,” opening lecture at conference “Myth, Memory & Historiography – the Case of Palestine 1948 War,” Van Leer Institute & the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, December 2010. “Balance of Memories in Israel,” Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, Columbia University, December 2010. “A World Without Jews: Memory and the Holocaust in the Third Reich.” A keynote speech at the inauguration of a new program, Institut für Kulturwissenschaft, Humboldt University, Berlin, November 2010. Delivering at the final plenary session an overall comment on the proceeding at the conference “Memory and Roman Culture,” Ruhr University, Bochum, November 2010. “A World Without Jews: Memory and the Holocaust in the Third Reich,” Department of History, Göttingen University, May 2010. “Nazism, Space, and Memory,” the Aubrey Newman Keynote Lecture, Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust Studies, University of Leicester, at conference “Space, Identity, and National Socialism,” University of Leicester and Loughborough University, May 2010. “On the Liberation from the Tyranny of the Past: Arabs and Jews in Israel," Max Planck Research Group “History and Memory,” University of Konstanz, February 2010. “Memory and History,” Max Planck Research Group “History and Memory,” University of Konstanz, February 2010. Participant in the round table “The Shoah, the Yishuv, the Memories,” organized by Ebraismo Culture Arti Drammatiche in Rome, Giorno della memoria, Rome, Italy, January 2010. “The Virtues and Tyranny of the Past,” address at the Plenary Session of conference “Russia and Poland: The Duty of Memory and the Right to Oblivion,” Russian Institute for Cultural Research, Moscow, October 2009. “Emotions and Imagination in Holocaust Historical Sites and Material Remains,” Keynote address at conference “Disturbing Remains: Material Remains for the Memory of the Holocaust,” in conjunction with “Linz 2009 – European Capital of Culture,” Mauthausen Memorial, September 2009. “Narrative Form and Historical Sensation: On Saul Friedländer’s The Years of Extermination,” German Studies Seminar, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, April 2009. “The Persecution and Extermination of the Jews: The Promises and Possibilities in Historical Interpretation,” University of Sussex, October 2008. “On the Orthodoxy of the Holocaust Dominant Interpretation,” Oxford University, October 2008. “Narrative Form and Historical Sensation: On Saul Friedländer’s The Years of Extermination,” Lockmiller Seminar, Emory University, April 2008. 14
“The 1967 Arab-Israeli War in History and Memory,” Department of Comparative Literature, the Hebrew University, June 2007. “Remembering the Six Days War,” Keynote address in conference “Six Days— Forty Years,” Sapir Academic College, Israel, May 2007. “The Limits of Memory: Arabs, Jews, and Homelands in Israel,” CERI—Centre d’Etude et de Recherches Internationales—Sciences Po, Paris, France, March 2007. “Collective Memory: Problems and Promises of Method,” Sciences Po, Paris, France, March 2007. “Memory, Method, and Germany,” Sciences Po, Paris, France, March 2007. “Foundational Pasts: Between the French Revolution and the Holocaust,” Walter Grab Memorial Lecture, Institute of German History, Tel Aviv University, December 2006. “The Travels of Bettina Humpel: One Stasi File and Narratives of State and Self in East Germany,” Bucerius Institute for German History, University of Haifa, December 2006. “Remembering War as a Tale of Victimhood,” Middle East Program, Ben Gurion University, Israel, May 2006. “The Travels of Bettina Humpel: One Stasi File and Narratives of State and Self in East Germany,” Department of History, Ben Gurion University, Israel, April 2006. “Foundational Pasts: Thinking about the French Revolution, the Holocaust, and Historical Understanding,” the Institute for Advanced Studies, the Hebrew University, January 2006. “The Historian’s Representation.” Department of Sociology and Anthropology, the Hebrew University, December 2005. “Do Intellectuals have Moral Responsibility?” Opening lecture of a year-long workshop on intellectuals in crisis situations, the Department of Anthropology, Sociology, and Psychology, Ben Gurion University, Israel, November 2005. “Culture and the Holocaust,” the Mosse Program at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, March 2005. “On History and Memory,” Lyon Gardiner Tyler Lecture, College of William and Mary, VA, March 2005. “On a Historical Dissonance and a Notion of Normality: Why Did Some Germans Think of Tourism after May 8, 1945?” Cambridge University, June 2000. “The Flexibility of Identification: The Heimat Idea as a Variable Construction,” University of Leipzig, the Special Interdisciplinary Research Project on Regional Identity, April 2000. “On a Historical Dissonance and a Notion of Normality: Why Did Some Germans Think of Tourism after May 8, 1945?” The Humboldt University, Berlin, January 2000. “Did Federalism Have a Symbolic Representation? Localness, Nationhood, and Heimat in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918,” lecture series “Federalism in German History,” Department of History, University of Manchester, December 1999. “Modernity and the Origins and Spread of Nationalism,” Center of Central European Studies, Harvard University, May 1996. 15
“The Nation as a Work of Art? Reflections on the Origins, Spread, and Image of Nations,” Navonic Center for European Studies, lecture series on Nationalism and National Identity, University of Notre Dame, IN, November 1993. “Heimat and the Creation of National Memory in Germany,” École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales at the French Academy in Rome, Italy, December 1990.
Papers Delivered: “Empathy and the Telling of History: Forced Migration and Memory in Israel after 1948,” American Historical Association, New York, January 2015. “A World with and Without Jews,” Lessons and Legacies Holocaust Conference, Boca Raton, FL, October 2014. “A World with and Without Jews,” German Studies Association, Kansas City, Missouri, September 2014. “The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide: A World Without Jews,” Association of Jewish Studies conference, Boston, December 2013. “The Holocaust as a Problem of Cultural History,” Lessons and Legacies, Northwestern University, November 2012. “The Holocaust as a Problem of Cultural History,” German Studies Association, Milwaukee, October 2012. "A World Without Jews: Nazi Germany, Representations of the Past, and the Holocaust," Department of History, University of Virginia, April 2012. “Miracles and Snow in Palestine: A History of 1948,” Jews, Palestinians, and 1948: An International Symposium, University of Virginia, March 2012. “The Coast of Tantura: 1948 and After,” 1948 in Palestine: An Interdisciplinary Symposium, University of Virginia, November 2012. “The Third Reich as an Empire of Time,” the German Studies Association, Louisville, KY, September 2011. “The Problem of Forced Migration in Palestine, 1948,” at international research group “Relating Identities: Locality, Region, Nation, Empire in modern European history,” Stony Brook Manhattan Campus, NY, August 2011. “The Third Reich of Emotions,” at conference “Science and Emotions,” University of California, San Diego, February 2011. “The Third Reich of Emotions,” at workshop “Emotions and History,” Department of History and Civilization, European University Institute, Florence, May 2010. Presentation of book Nostalgia, ed. Rolf Petri (Rome, 2010) in Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, April 2010. “The Third Reich as an Empire of Time,” at international research group “Relating Identities: Locality, Region, Nation, Empire in modern European history,” Central European University, Budapest, March 2010. “A Family History: Italy, the Yishuv, and the Shoa,” at conference “la Shoà e l'Yishuv: Israele, La Shoà, l’Europa,” for Giorno della memoria, Rome, January 2010. “How some Germans became Jews and some Jews Nazis?” at conference “Happy Birthday BRD: Transatlantic Reflections on Six Decades Full of Wonder,” Université de Montréal, May 2009. Participant in a round table “The Future of Memory Studies” with Jeffrey Olick and Gavriel Rosenfeld, University of Virginia, April 2009. 16
“An Argument for Culture and Sensibilities: Taking Ideology Seriously by Diminishing its Explanatory Role,” South East German Studies Workshop, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, March 2009. “What Does it Mean to Talk about the ‘Global Memory of the Holocaust’?” At conference “Marking Evil: The Memory of the Holocaust in a Global Age,” Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, December 2008. “Home, Homeland, and Forced Migration,” at international research group “Relating Identities: Locality, Region, Nation, Empire in modern European history,” University of Manchester, October 2008. “Interpreting the Holocaust after The Years of Extermination,” German Studies Association, Minneapolis, October 2008. “History and Memory,” editorial conference of contributors to The Oxford History of Historical Writing, Edmonton, Canada, September 2008. “Narrative Form and Historical Sensation in The Years of Extermination,” at research team “The Ethics and Practice of Holocaust Memory in the Global Age,” Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, July 2008. “Narrative Form and Historical Sensation in The Years of Extermination,” at conference in Honor of Saul Friedländer, University of Sussex, June 2008. “The Human Rights Crisis in Palestine,” participant in a panel discussion, University of Virginia, November 2007. “Between Emilio and Enzo Sereni: Communism, Zionism, and the Course of History” at conference in memory of Emilio Sereni, Portici, Italy, October 2007. Chair in session “Social Memory and the Varied Faces of Israeli Society,” Association of Israel Studies, Ra’anana, Israel, June 2007. “Memory in Europe and the Middle East,” a symposium on Israel Gershoni, Pyramid for the Nation: Commemoration, memory, and Nationalism in Twentieth-Century Egypt (Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 2006), Tel Aviv University, January 2007. Commentator in panel “The Long Duree of Nineteenth Century Germany,” German Studies Association, Pittsburgh, October 2006. “Some Further Thoughts on The Nation As a Local Metaphor,” at conference “Municipalism, Regionalism, Nationalism,” University of Manchester, March 2006. Commentator in workshop of young scholars of German history, organized by the German Historical Institutes of Israeli universities, March, 2006. Moderating a panel discussion on historical forgetting of the Shoah in Germany and Israel at conference “Mapping Social Forgetting,” the Truman Institute, the Hebrew University, February 2006. “East Germany and the Heimat Idea,” the Institute for Advanced Studies, the Hebrew University, February 2006. “The Travels of Bettina Humpel: One Stasi File and Narratives of State and Self in East Germany,” at conference “Ethnography and Literature,” the Institute for Advanced Studies, the Hebrew University, January 2006. “Giuseppe Mazzini and Italian Zionists,” at conference “Italian Risorgimento, Jewish National Revival: The Legacy of Giuseppe Mazzini,” the Hebrew University, November 2005. “The State of Memory Studies,” at conference “Memory: the State of Things,” the University of Virginia, October 2005. 17
Commentator in conference “Localism, Landscape, and Hybrid Identities in Imperial Germany,” University of Toronto, May 2005. “Sereni on Jews and Arabs in Palestine,” at conference on Enzo Sereni, Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University, April 2005. Participant in a round table session on Helmut Smith, The Butcher’s Tale (New York, 2002), American Historical Association, Washington, DC, January 2004. “Death, Spiritual Solace, and Afterlife Between Nazism and Religion,” at conference “Death in Modern Germany,” University of Virginia, November 2003. “Traveling, the Stasi, and the Making of Self in East Germany,” German Studies Association, New Orleans, September 2003. “The Discipline of History and Collective Memory: The Case of Germany,” Sociology Department, University of Virginia, November 2002. “Traveling, Selfhood, and Collectivity in Germany, 1933-1989,” at “Observing and Making Meaning. Understanding the Soviet Union and Central Europe through Travel,” University of Toronto, October 2002. “National Narratives in the Bible,” a symposium on Ilana Pardes, The Biography of Ancient Israel (Berkeley, 2000), the Hartman Institute, Jerusalem. June 2002. “Freud and Nationalism,” at a conference “New Perspectives on Moses and Monotheism,” the Hebrew University, June 2002. Participants in the conference “Memory and the Invention of Jewish History,” Center for Jewish Studies, University of Maryland, April 2002. “The Lure of Exile: The Case of Edward Said and George Steiner,” American Historical Association, San Francisco, January 2002. “Thinking about Twentieth Century Germany,” German Studies Association, Washington, DC, October 2001. Moderator in panel “Consumerism, Transcendence and German Culture,” German Studies Association, Washington, DC, October 2001. Moderator in panel “Imagining Mass Tourism: Leisure, Travel, and Political Mobilization in Inter-War Germany,” German Studies Association, Houston, October 2000. Participant in roundtable “Consumer Culture in Twentieth Century Germany,” German Studies Association, Houston, October 2000. Participant in symposium “German Federalism: Past, Present, and Future,” Department of History, University of Manchester, April 2000. Participant in roundtable on “Zionism, Nationalism, and the Labor Movement,” Department of Labor Studies, Tel Aviv University, January 2000. Commentator on panel “Regions” at conference “The American Impact on Western Europe: Americanization and Westernization in Transatlantic Perspective,” German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, March 1999. Chair and co-writer of commentary for panel “The Heimat Abroad: The Boundaries of German-ness,” American Historical Association, Washington, DC, January 1999. “Tourism as a Culture of Normalities: West Germany, 1945-1960,” at conference “Violence and Normality: Approaches to a Cultural and Social History of Europe in the 1940s and 1950s,” Marienheide, Germany, October 1998. Given also at German Studies Association, Atlanta, October 1999. 18
“Post-‘45 Germans’ Perceptions of the Holocaust,” a workshop “On Violence and Memory,” Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia, November 1998. “Tourism and German Identity in the Twentieth Century,” at conference “National Identities,” Institute of Historical Research, London, April 1998. “Between Trains and Barbarossa: On Early-Modern and Modern German Nationalism,” at conference “The German Nation—Contemporary Perceptions Since the Sixteenth Century,” Weimar, Germany, April 1998. “How Did Tourist Images Represent Germanness? On Triviality, Continuity, and Identity in Germany, 1890-1990,” German Studies Association, Washington D.C., September 1997. “Exploring the Past: Tourism and National Identity,” at conference “Mirroring Germany,” Institute for German History, Tel Aviv University, May 1997. “A Sort of a Time Machine: Tourism, Experience, and Perceptions of the Past in Germany Before 1914,” at conference “Learning and Literacy in the Judaic Tradition: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Inquiry,” Center for Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, May 1996. Given also at conference “The Culture of Historical Learning,” German Historical Institute, Washington D.C., November 1996. Commentator in panel “Regionalism in Modern German History: Local Identity, Political Mobilization, and Provincial Modernity,” German Studies Association, Chicago, Ill, October 1995. “Modern German Society and Consumer Culture: The Transformation of the Past into a Commodity for Mass Consumption,” at conference “German Studies as Cultural Studies,” Davidson College, Davidson, NC, March 1995. “Collective Memory: A Useful Analytical Tool or a New Historical Catchword?” American Historical Association, Chicago, IL, January 1995. “Heimat and German Nationhood: Film, History, and Understandings of the Past.” The international workshop "Film and History" organized by the Museo del Risorgimento e della lotta per la libertà, Archivio di Cinema e Storia, Trento, Italy, November 1994. Participant in the International Conference on the Holocaust “Lessons and Legacies III: Memory, Memorialization and Denial,” Dartmouth College, NH, October 1994 “Cityscape, Regionscape, Nationscape: The Iconography of the Heimat Idea.” German Studies Association, Dallas, TX, October 1994. Participant in the international workshop “Film and History” organized by the Museo del Risorgimento e della lotta per la libertà, Archivio di Cinema e Storia, Trento, Italy, February 1994. “The Image of the German Heimat, 1871-1918,” at conference “The Scared Structures of Nationalism and their Transformation in the 19th and 20th Centuries,” Leipzig, Germany, July 1993. “The Nation as a Local Metaphor: Heimat, National Memory, and the German Empire, 1871-1918,” the Seminar for Comparative European Studies-- “Rethinking Nationalism,” Institute for German History, Tel Aviv University, November 1992. “The Celebration of Sedan Day and the Construction of a National Narrative in Germany after 1871,” German Studies Association, Minneapolis, MI, October 1992. 19
“National Memory and Politics in the German Empire,” University of Tübingen, Germany, January 1990.
Various Appearances, Radio and Television Interview, NPR “Here and Now” on Netanyahu’s claim the Mufti inspired the Holocaust, October 22, 2015 http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2015/10/22/netanyahu-holocaust-claim Radio interview on A World Without Jews at TLV1, an English-language radio station broadcasting online from Israel, in the program “The Tel Aviv Review: Close Enencounters of the Intellectual Kind,” July 18, 2015. http://tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv-review/2015/07/18/how-the-nazis-imagined-a-world- without-jews Interview with Ana Fishzon, co-host of New Books in Psychoanalysis, on A World Without Jews. New Books is part of the larger New Books Network; the podcast will be cross-posted to new Books in History and other relevant channels. http://files.newbooksnetwork.com/history/281historyconfino.mp3 Radio interview on A World Without Jews at USA Radio Networks’s show “Chuck Morse Speaks,” January 26, 2015. http://chuck-morse-speaks.podomatic.com/entry/2015-01-26T17_18_32-08_00 A conversation about A World Without Jews, Museum of Jewish Heritage, NYC, January 2015. Radio interview on A World Without Jews at “Soundboard” WTJU's news, culture and public affairs radio program, November 20, 2014 https://soundcloud.com/wtju/alon-confino-author-of-a-world-without-jew National Public Radio, July 28, 2011. A one hour interview about my work at the program “Virginia Insight.” To listen: http://www.wmra.org/inchive.html Israeli television, Channel 1, June 22, 2011. An interview about war and memory at the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. “Israeli Memory and Waltz with Bashir” (directed by Ari Folman, 2008), Virginia Film Festival, Charlottesville, VA, October 2008. “War and War Films.” A panel discussion in Tel Aviv Cinemateque on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the 1967 war, June 2007. Dialogue with Dan Diner on “Between Victims and Perpetrators: New Stories on the Second World War,” Department of History, the Hebrew University, March 2006. Presentation and panel moderator of Walk on Water, film directed by Eitan Fox (2005), Vinegar Hill Cinema, Charlottesville, VA, March 2005. Presentation and panel moderator of Paper Clips, film directed by Elliot Berlin and Joe Fab (2004), Virginia Film Festival, Charlottesville, VA, October 2004.
V. SERVICE (selected): To the Department: Member, ad-hoc committee to review spousal hiring, 2016. Member, Promotion Committee, German and History Departments, 2015 Member of a promotion committee, 2014. Chair, Promotion Committee, 2013. Chair, Planning Committee for future Department Hiring, 2013. Chair, Early Modern Europe search committee, 2011 Steering Committee, member, 2010-2012 20
A Three Year Review Committee, Chair, 2008-2009 Committee to evaluate the hiring of a modern European historian, Chair, 2008- 2009. Committee to evaluate the hiring of an Africanist, member, 2008-2009. A Tenure and Promotion Committee, member, 2007-2008. Committee on Courses and Mnemonic Numbers, member, 2004. Oversight Committee for the Institute of Public History, member, 2004-2005. Steering Committee, member, 2001-2002. A Tenure and Promotion Committee, member, 2001-2002. Governance Committee, member, 2000-2001. Modern European Jewish History Search Committee, member, 2000-01. Committee to Evaluate relations between the History Department and the Miller Center of Public Affairs at UVa, member, 2000-2001. A Tenure and Promotion Committee, member, 2000-2001. Director of History Undergraduates Distinguished Majors Program, 1998-2001. Polish History Search Committee, member, 1998-1999. Committee to evaluate the hiring of a historian of science, member, 1998-1999. Graduate Committee, member, 1997-1998, 2007-2008. Personnel Committee, member, 1994-1995.
To the University: Member, Promotion Committee, German and History Departments, 2015 Member, Tenure and Promotion Committee, Religious Studies Department, 2015. Member, Tenure and Promotion Committee, Religious Studies Department, 2014. Committee on Page Barbour Lecture Series, 2013- Committee on relations with Haifa University, 2011- Committee on relations with the Humboldt University, 2011- Jewish Studies Director Search Committee, 2010. Member, Tenure and Promotion Committee, Religious Studies Department, 2008-2009. Promotion committee, the Papers of George Washington, member, 2008-2009. Jewish Studies Program, Committee for New Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellows, member, 2008-2009. Humanities Subcommittee reporting to the Search Committee of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, member, 2007. Director of Jewish Studies Program, 2007-2008. Advisory Board, Center for German Studies, member, 2007--. Nominating Committee of College of Arts and Sciences, 2003-2005. Fellow, Center for the Study of Local Knowledge, 2002-2004. Steering Committee of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, 2001-2002. Page Barbour & James W. Richards Lecture Series Committee, member and interim Chair, 1998-2001. Committee on Educational Policy and the Curriculum, member, 2000-2002. Selection Committee on exchange program with the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and the École Normale Superieure in Paris, France, member, 2000-2005. 21
Three Years Review Committee, Department of Asian and Middle East Languages and Cultures, member, 2000-2001 Committee to establish a Jewish Studies Program at the University of Virginia, member, 1998-1999. Committee on Faculty Rules, member 1995-1998.
To the Profession: Board Member, Center for Austrian and German Studies, Ben Gurion University, Israel, 2015-- Board Member, Rabb Center for Holocaust and Redemption Studies, Ben Gurion University, Israel, 2015-- Chair, the Hans Rosenberg Book Prize awarded by the Conference Group of Central European History, 2010. Member, Editorial Board, Protocols of History and Theory, journal of Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, 2009-- Member, Editorial Board, Dapim – Studies on the Holocaust, 2009--. Member, Editorial Board, History and Memory, 2007--. Member, Advisory Board, German History, 2006--. Executive Committee of the Modern European Section of the American Historical Association, 2003-2006, Chair from 2005. Member, Editorial Board, Central European History, 2002--. The Hans Rosenberg Book Prize Committee, awarded by the Conference Group of Central European History, 2002. External consultant to the German Department in Miami University (Oxford, OH) on issues of German curriculum and cultural studies, 2002. Member, Editorial Board, National Identities, 2001--. Higby Prize Committee, the Journal of Modern History, 2000. Member, Editorial Board, Series on Leisure, Consumption, and Culture (Berg Publishers), 1998-2006.
Manuscripts reviewed for the following journals (selected): German History; Journal of Modern History; American Historical Review; Central European History; History and Memory; National Identities; American Sociological Review; Comparativ; Historia (journal of the Historical Society of Israel); Dapim– Studies on the Holocaust.
Manuscripts reviewed for the following publishers (selected): Harvard University Press; Stanford University Press; University of Michigan Press; Northern Illinois University Press; University Press of Virginia; Yale University Press; Berghahn Press; Berg Publishers; Cambridge University Press; Oxford University Press.
Research projects reviewed for: Israel Academy of Sciences; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; Social Science Research Council; Art and Humanities Research Council, UK; Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF: Wiener Wissenschafts-, Forschungs- und Technologiefonds); Czech Science Foundation; Leibnitz Association, Germany; Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS); Netherlands 22
Organisation for Scientific Research, Humanities, team HERA and project management, The Hague.
VI. COURSES TAUGHT: Undergraduate lecture courses: Western Civilization; German History, 1871-2006 (different periods thereof); Palestine, 1948; Nationalism and Memory.
Undergraduate seminars: Collective Memory; The Holocaust; European Memories of the Second World War; Imperialism, Independence, and Forced Migration in Palestine, 1948; History Distinguished Majors Program third-year seminar; History Distinguished Majors Program fourth-year seminar; Genocide, Forced Migration, Human Rights: A Transnational History; 1948: A Global History of the Modern World.
Graduate courses: Twentieth Century Europe; Nationalism: Global Perspectives (team-taught course with Ajay Skaria, Professor of Indian History); Modern German History; German History: 1500-2000 (team-taught course with Erik Midelfort, Professor of Early Modern German history); Consumer Culture and Perceptions of the Past; History and Memory; Nationhood, History, and Memory; War and Forced Migrations in the Modern World; History, Memory, Narrative; Genocide, Forced Migration, Human Rights: A Transnational History; Partitions in the Twentieth Century; Emotions, Violence, Memory; 1948: A Global History of the Modern World.
VII. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY--VARIOUS International Working and Research Team Activities Member of the research team “Relating Identities: Locality, Region, Nation & Empire in modern European history” organized by the Centre for Research on the Cultural Forms of Modern European Politics at Manchester University, 2008- 2011. Member of the research team “The Ethics and Practice of Holocaust Memory in the Global Age” at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, 2007-2009. “Ethnography and Literature: Theory, History and Interdisciplinary Practice,” Institute of Advanced Studies, the Hebrew University, 2005-06, summer 2009.
Conference Organizer and Project Director: Organizer, an international workshop “Rethinking Ideologies,” University of Virginia, December 2013. Organizer, a symposium “1948 in Palestine in Global Perspective,” University of Virginia, March 2012. Organizer, a symposium “New Perspectives on 1948 in Palestine,” University of Virginia, November 2011. Co-organizer of workshop “Emotions and History,” Department of History and Civilization, European University Institute, Florence, May 2010. Co-director of project “Forced Migration and Ethnic Cleansing in the Modern World,” University of Virginia, 2009-2012. Co-organizer and host as Director of Jewish Studies of conference “Hearing Israel: Music, Culture and History at 60,” University of Virginia, April 2008. 23
Co-organizer and host of conference “Death in Modern Germany,” University of Virginia, November 2003. Co-director of project “Twentieth Century Germany as History: New Narratives of Catastrophe and Happy Ending,” University of Virginia, 2001-2004. Co-organizer of conference “The Work of Memory in Germany,” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, December 1998.
Professional Societies: American Historical Association German Studies Association International Network for Theory of History Association of Jewish Studies
Languages: German: Speak, write, and read. Italian: Speak, write, and read. Hebrew: native speaker. French: read. Arabic: I have studied Arabic since 2011.