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 us on Wednesdays this October for a series of historically informed conversations.

The series is comprised of three events:

• Wednesday, October 9 | RSVP HERE | The Military, Political Violence, and Defense of the Republic with historians Isabel Hull (John Stambaugh Professor of History Emerita) and Steven Remy (The Graduate Center and Brooklyn College)
• Wednesday, October 16 | RSVP HERE | Political Economy and Crisis of “The System” with legal scholar David Abraham (Professor Emeritus, University of Miami) and Benjamin Hett (The Graduate Center and Hunter College)
• Wednesday, October 30 | RSVP HERE | National Socialism and the Decline of the Weimar Republic with Professor of Political Science Sheri Berman (Barnard College, Columbia University) and Sociologist John Torpey (The Graduate Center)

Location

These events will take place at The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016.

Please RSVP on the event pages above.

This event is presented by the European Union Studies Center of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies and supported by the “Germany on Campus” program of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany.