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Greensboro College Invites Community to 15th Annual Schleunes Lecture on the Holocaust and Genocide

by Matthew Johnson

Greensboro, NC (03/20/2024) — Greensboro College presents the 15th Annual Schleunes Lecture on the Holocaust and genocide, at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 28, in Hannah Brown Finch Memorial Chapel on campus. Admission is free, and the public is invited.

This year's lecture will be presented by Professor Doris Bergen and the title of her lecture is, "Were the Nazis Christians?"

Doris L. Bergen is the Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Toronto. She is currently the J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar in Residence at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Her research focuses on issues of religion, gender, and ethnicity in the Holocaust and World War II and comparatively in other cases of extreme violence.

Her books include Twisted Cross: The German Christian Movement in the Third Reich (1996); War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust (2003); The Sword of the Lord: Military Chaplains from the First to the Twenty-First Centuries (edited, 2004); and Lessons and Legacies VIII (edited, 2008).

Prof. Bergen has held grants and fellowships from the SSHRC, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the German Marshall Fund of the United States, the DAAD, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and she has taught at the Universities of Warsaw, Pristina, Tuzla, Notre Dame, and Vermont. Her current projects include a book on Germany military chaplains in the Nazi era and a study of definitions of Germanness as revealed in the Volksdeutschen/ethnic Germans of Eastern Europe during World War II and the Holocaust. Bergen is a member of the Academic Advisory Committee of the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

The lecture will be held live at Finch Chapel, on Greensboro College's campus. It will also be live-streamed online for those who cannot attend in person. Please check the Greensboro College website for further details on the lecture and how to tune in to the online live stream.

The Schleunes Lecture is presented annually through the generosity of Richard and Jane Levy of Greensboro in honor of the eminent Holocaust scholar Dr. Karl Schleunes of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

The series is dedicated to providing opportunities for area residents and students to hear nationally and internationally recognized experts present their research on the Holocaust and on issues related to genocides.

For more information on the Schleunes Lecture, contact Professor Jason Stroud: jason.stroud@greensboro.edu

Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.

Founded in 1838 and located in downtown Greensboro, the college enrolls about 1,000 students from 29 states and territories, the District of Columbia, and seven foreign countries in its undergraduate liberal-arts program and six master's degree programs. In addition to rigorous academics and a well-supported Honors program, the school features a 17-sport NCAA Division III athletic program and dozens of service and recreational opportunities. Learn more at greensboro.edu.

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