European Studies Council Modern Europe Colloquium: “The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany’s Twentieth Century”

Event time: 
Monday, September 15, 2025 - 4:00pm
Location: 
Humanities Quadrangle, Room 107 See map
320 York Street
New Haven, CT 06520
Event description: 

The European Studies Council Modern Europe Colloquium presents

Dagmar Herzog, Distinguished Professor of History, CUNY Graduate Center: 

“The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany’s Twentieth Century.”

Dagmar Herzog is Distinguished Professor of History at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she writes and teaches on the histories of gender and sexuality, fascism and genocide, disability activism and care work, psychiatry and psychoanalysis. She is author of seven books, including Sex after Fascism (Princeton, 2005), Sexuality in Europe (Cambridge, 2011), Cold War Freud (Cambridge, 2017), and – just published – The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany’s Twentieth Century (Princeton, 2024).

 

Admission: 
Free
Open to: 
General Public