Symposium
Thomas Mann in Exile, for Social Democracy

Fri, 02/03/2023
2:00 PM - 17:30 Charles Deering Memorial Library at Northwestern University, Room 208

Join us for a series of talks about Thomas Mann’s advocacy of democracy during the Nazi period, held on the occasion of the exhibition 'Thomas Mann: Democracy Will Win,' currently on view at the University Library.
 

SPEAKERS

“The ‘Greatest Living Man of Letters’ Comes to Evanston: Thomas Mann and His 1938 Lecture Tour”
Tobias Boes, University of Notre Dame
Chair, Department of German and Russian Languages and Literatures; Faculty Fellow, Nanovic Institute for European Studies

"How far away was L.A.? Thomas Mann in Pacific Palisades 1942/43"
Meike Werner, Vanderbilt University
Chair, Department of German, Russian, and East European Studies; Associate Professor of German and European Studies

“The Migrations of the Mann Family”
Veronika Fuechtner, Dartmouth College
Chair of Jewish Studies; Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature; Affiliated Faculty in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and in the Geisel School of Medicine


Moderators for the symposium include Northwestern University's Peter Fenves (Professor of German, Jewish Studies, and Comparative Literature Studies), Anna Parkinson (Associate Professor of German, Jewish Studies, and Gender and Sexuality Studies), and Isabel von Holt (DAAD Visiting Professor of German).

This symposium is organized by Northwestern University's Department of German in partnership with the Goethe-Institut Chicago, Northwestern University Library, and the Thomas Mann House.