| When | Tuesday, Dec 8, 2020, 4 – 5:30 p.m. |
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| Campus room | online |
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| Event Types | Academics, Lectures/Seminars |
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| | | Description | Roundtable Participants:
- Daniel Bessner, Associate Professor, International Studies
- Hadar Khazzam-Horovitz, Lecturer, Near Eastern Languages & Civilization
- Niko Switek, Assistant Professor, Political Science
Daniel Bessner will discuss the impact of exiles of German National Socialism on the making of the U.S. national security state in the 1940s and beyond.
Hadar Khazzam-Horovitz will discuss the Nuremberg trials, in which Nazi physicians and scientists were prosecuted for war crimes, and the de facto birth of modern medical ethics.
Niko Switek will discuss the prevalence of anti-Semitic and extremist positions in the modern far-right Alternative for Germany party, and how this affects overall public discourse in Germany. |
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| Link | jewishstudies.washington.edu… |
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