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And finally a workshop on digital methodologies on 21.05. entitled "Mapping Violence" featuring Anne Knowles, Tim Cole, Sara Fabrikant, Christine Grundig, Anastassia Shaitarova, and Carolin Lange.

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And as a reminder don't miss the other related events in the lecture series: a public lecture by Anne Knowles on 21.05. at 18:15 at the University of Zurich (KOL F-101, Rämistrasse 71).

Event Announcement
Speaker Series: Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Where was the
Holocaust? The Unseen Geographies
21.05.2026, 18:15 – 19:45, KOL-F-101
Anne Knowles – University of Maine

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The workshop takes place in conjunction this public lecture by Dagmar Herzog on June 1st at 18:30 at the University of Zurich (KOL F-101, Rämistrasse 71). No registration is necessary for the public lecture. Many thanks to my colleague Franziska Felder for co-organizing the lecture and workshop!

Event announcement
Speaker Series: Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Eugenische Phantasmen
– Die lange Vor- und Nachgeschichte der NS-«Euthanasie»-Morde
01.06.2026, 18:30 – 20:00, KOL-F-101
Dagmar Herzog – City University of New York

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Christina Morina @christina-morina.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

It is my pleasure to announce the workshop “Verdrängte Opfer: Eugenik, Biopolitik und die Frage des unwerten Lebens” featuring Dagmar Herzog and other wonderful scholars hosted at the University of Zurich on 01.06.-02.06.2026. Registration info is here: www.uzh.ch/de/events/ag...

Veranstaltungsankündigung
Workshop: Verdrängte Opfer: Eugenik, Biopolitik und die Frage des unwerten Lebens
Universität Zürich
Organisation: Franzsika Felder (Institut für Erziehungswissenschaft) & Adam Knowles (Philosophisches Seminar)
Wir bitten um Anmeldung für den Workshop bei Iris Hostettler (sekretariat.felder@ife.uzh.ch). Für den Abendvortrag am 01.06. ist keine Voranmeldung nötig.

1. Juni 2026
Nachmittagsworkshop, Kutscherhaus, Ethikzentrum der Universität Zürich (Zollikerstrasse 115)
14.00-15.30 Adam Knowles (Universität Zürich): „The New Fascist Body: Ethnonationalist Discourses of Degeneration and Regeneration“
16.00-17.30 Franziska Felder (Universität Zürich), „Eugenische Phantasmen: Die Neuerfindung der deutschen Sonderpädagogik nach 1945 und die Rollen ihrer zentralen Akteure“
Abendvortrag 18.30-20.00 (UZH KOL F-101, Rämistrasse 71)
Dagmar Herzog (CUNY): „Eugenische Phantasmen – Die lange Vor- und Nachgeschichte der NS-‚Euthanasie‘-Morde“
2. Juni 2026, 9:00-16:00
9.00-10.00: Marietta Meier (Universität Zürich): „Stillstand am Rande des Fortschritts: ‚Unheilbar‘ in der Psychiatrie des 20. Jahrhunderts”
10.15-11.15: Constantin Kilcher (University of Cambridge): „Auch eine Schweizer Geschichte: der Zürcher Moment der Europäischen Eugenik“
11.30-12.30: Martin Lengwiler (Universität Basel): „Zwang in modernen Wohlfahrtsstaaten: Erkenntnisse aus der Geschichte der Sozialhilfe“
13.30-14.30: Regina Schidel (Universität Frankfurt a. M): „Der Nützlichkeitstopos in der Philosophie - Verdinglichung, instrumentelle Rationalität und deren Kritik“
14.45-15.45: Lisa Dillinger (Universität Zürich): „‚Nie wieder ist jetzt?‘ Zur Aktualität Adornos ‚Erziehung nach Auschwitz‘ in Zeiten demokratischer Erosion“
15.45: Abschluss
16.00: Apéro

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Das Engagement für die Gedenkstätte „Stalag 326“ in Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock lässt sich auch als ein Stück politische Kulturgeschichte der Bundesrepublik verstehen, zeigen die Aufsätze unserer Studierender…

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Adam Knowles @knowlesadam.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

If you're in Zurich and need a distraction from the sunny weather, then join us this evening for a timely discussion on coming to terms with the past in the Swiss context. The lineup features Moira Pinkus, Raphael Gross, Jakob Tanner, and Karen Roth. 18:15 in KO2-F-180 of the UZH.

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Adam Knowles @knowlesadam.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Excited to announce the workshop "Disgust and the Question of the Human" co-organized with Nadia Mazouz (ETH Zurich) on 18th May 2026. Speakers include @dittemunch.bsky.social, Noga Resh, and Zainabu Jallo. Info and registration here: ephil.ethz.ch/en/news-und-....

Announcement for academic event:
Disgust and the Question of the Human
Workshop
ETH Zürich, 18th of May 2026
Venue: ETH Zürich, Villa Hatt, Freudenbergstrasse 112, 8044 Zürich
Organisation: Nadia Mazouz and Adam Knowles

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Adam Knowles @knowlesadam.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Save the date. Join us in two weeks at the University of Zurich for a podium discussion "Die Zukunft der Vergangenheitsbewältigung in der Schweiz" with Raphael Gross, Jakob Tanner and Moira Pinkus moderated by Karen Roth-Krauthammer. Mar. 19th, 18:15-19.45, KO2-F-180. www.uzh.ch/de/events/ag...

Event announcement at the University of Zurich:
Speaker Series: Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Die Zukunft der
Vergangenheitsbewältigung in der Schweiz
19.03.2026, 18:15 – 19:45, KO2-F-180
Moderation:
Karen Roth-Krauthammer – Omanut
Speakers:
Raphael Gross – Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin
Jakob Tanner – FS für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, UZH
Moira Pinkus – Historisches Seminar, UZH

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Adam Knowles @knowlesadam.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Final Reminder for anyone close to Zurich: Join us for a lecture by @christina-morina.bsky.social this evening at the University of Zurich!

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Adam Knowles @knowlesadam.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Am 26.02. hält @christina-morina.bsky.social (Bielefeld) einen Vortrag zu „Mehrheitsgesellschaften und Judenverfolgung in europäischer Perspektive: Geschichte und Erinnerung” in KO2-F-180, 18:15-19:45 an der Universität Züirch. Der Vortrag ist gesponsert von der Balzan-Stiftung und offen für alle.

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Adam Knowles @knowlesadam.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

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Adam Knowles @knowlesadam.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Final reminder! Tomorrow Debórah Dwork and I will be in conversation on the topic "Holocaust Studies: Past, Present and Future" from 18:15-19:45 (KO2-F-180). The even is open to the public and no registration is necessary. The full list of events in the series is here: www.uzh.ch/de/events/ag...

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Adam Knowles @knowlesadam.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

On Feb. 19th Debórah Dwork (CUNY) and I will discuss "Holocaust Studies: Past, Present and Future" at 18:15 at the University of Zurich. Participation is free for all and open to the public. For other events in the series (including lectures in German) see www.uzh.ch/de/events/ag....

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Lisa Regazzoni @lisaregazzoni.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Wir (@hist-theorie.bsky.social) freuen uns auf die Zusammenarbeit und sind gespannt auf die gekreuzte Perspektiven!

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Adam Knowles @knowlesadam.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Somewhere in the range of the preposthumous.

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the Diasporist @thediasporist.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

„Promiskuitiv und aasfressend, zeige der Faschismus eine bemerkenswerte Fähigkeit, Widersprüche in Spannung zu halten, ohne sie auflösen zu müssen.“ Adam Knowles schreibt über Armin Mohler, den „geistigen Vater” der Neuen Rechten: thediasporist.de/de/missverst...

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Missverstandene Radikale – the Diasporist

Armin Mohler und die Beschönigung des Faschismus

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Adam Knowles @knowlesadam.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

In this context the word is borrowed from Ludwig Klages.

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Adam Knowles @knowlesadam.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Guter Beitrag von @davi-cath.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy über das jüngste Buch von Dagmar Herzog. Auch eine Gelegenheit daran zu erinnern, dass Herzog einen Vortrag an der Uni Zürich am 01.06. hält. Am 02.06. findet ein Workshop mit Herzog über „Eugenische Phantasmen“ statt. Mehr dazu demnächst.

Speaker Series: Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Eugenische Phantasmen
- Die lange Vor- und Nachgeschichte
der NS-«Euthanasie>>-Mor de
01.06.2026, 18:30- 20:00 (KOL F-101)
Dagmar Herzog - City University of New York

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d.z.shaw @dzshaw.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

There is a lot going on this diagram.

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Indeed, there's an entire sweeping Greco-German fascistoid imaginary built into that diagram. Woe be to whomever decides to write the book that can make sense of that diagram.

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Since Plato is in the news: What was Plato's status at the Nazified university? This 1934 diagram from the journal "Völkische Kultur" shows one response. It puts Plato in a cosmopolitan lineage of degradation leading to Kant which was, in a common antisemitic trope, portrayed as suspiciously Jewish.

Taxonomic diagram of intellectual history tracing the lineage of various strands of thinking published in the ethnonationalist journal "Völkische Kultur" in 1934 in Werner Deubel's essay "Graecogermanisch--Graecojudaisch." In the chart the fundamental divide is between a "Greco-Jewish" lineage that leads to the "downfall of the soul" and a "Greco-Germanic" lineage that leads to the "German Cultural Revolution." Plato is placed in a lineage that leads to a "logocentric system" crystalized by Kant and ultimately resulting in Americanism and Bolshevism. The chart places Kant, Goethe, Schiller, and Romanticism as the critical nodal points in the movement towards downfall (Kant, Goethe in part) and Cultural Revolution (Goethe, in part, Schiller, and Romantics).

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I wouldn't necessary attribute it to the Nazis. This example is indeed from 1934, but it goes back to a longer line of thought among völkisch thinkers which circulated in the 1920s. Johann Chapoutot's book "Greeks, Roman, Germans" provides some context.

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Just had a look at the Barr Diagram. Fascinating comparison!

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Since the Main Office science collected course lists, professors often shifted to bland, inconspicuous titles to avoid unnecessary attention. In any case, the major work of policing professors (who by 1938 were reliable Nazis anyways) was done through denunciations.

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The Hauptamt Wissenschaft (Main Office of Science) would collect lists of courses in "ideologically critical" fields--which included philosophy. Here, for example, the list from Kiel in Winter Semester 1939/40. Lots of Plato being taught alongside Kant, race science classes.

Microfilm image of a course listing from the Kiel University in 1939/40 in German containing a detailed listed courses held in 1939-40. Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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Higher education under National Socialism never resulted in uniform curricular policies. Decisions about what could be taught were highly contingent. They depended on a professor's status, political backing and uni leadership. Martina Steber speaks of "contained plurality" in a different context.

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Adam Knowles @knowlesadam.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

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Many thanks for the comments and for reading the piece!

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Adam Knowles @knowlesadam.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Perhaps the work of @evianeleidig.com and her book The Women of the Far Right www.evianeleidig.com/women-of-the...?

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Women of the Far-Right — Dr. Eviane Leidig

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Excited to announce upcoming public talks and panel discussions on "Holocaust and Genocide Studies" at the University of Zurich which I have organized in cooperation with @zeitgeschichte-bie.bsky.social. Save the dates! @deborahdwork.bsky.social, @christina-morina.bsky.social

Announcement for lecture series on Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Zurich.

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In session 5 Dagmar Herzog will present "Eugenische Phantasmen: Die lange Vor- und Nachgeschichte der NS-"Euthanasie"-Morde" on 1st June, 18:30-20:00, KOL F-101. Co-Organized with Franziska Felder, Institut für Erziehungswissenschaft (UZH). @zeitgeschichte-bie.bsky.social

Announcement for a talk by Dagmar Herzog entitled "Eugenische Phantasmen - Die lange Vor- und Nachgeschichte der NS-"Euthanasie"-Morde" on 1st June, 18:30-20:00, KOL F-101.

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In session 4 Anne Knowles will present "Where was the Holocaust?" on 21st May 18:15-19:45 at the UZH Main Building (room tba). @zeitgeschichte-bie.bsky.social

Announcement for a talk by Anne Knowles "Where was the Holocaust?" on 21st May 18:15-19:45 at the UZH Main Building (room tba).

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Session 3 is a panel discussion with Raphael Gross, Jakob Tanner, Moira Pinkus and moderated by Karen Roth-Krauthammer on "Die Zukunft der Vergangenheitsbewältigung in der Schweiz." 19th March, 18:15-19:45 at the UZH Main Building (room tba). @zeitgeschichte-bie.bsky.social

Announcement for a panel discussion with Raphael Gross, Jakob Tanner, Moira Pinkus and moderated by Karen Roth-Krauthammer on "Die Zukunft der Vergangenheitsbewältigung in der Schweiz." 19th March, 18:15-19:45 at the UZH Main Building (room tba).

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Session 2: Christina Morina, "Mehrheitsgesellschaften und Judenverfolgung in europäischer Perspektive: Geschichte und Erinnerung" on 26th February, 18:15-19:45 at the UZH Main Building (room tba). Sponsored by the Balzan Foundation. @christina-morina.bsky.social @zeitgeschichte-bie.bsky.social

Announcement for a talk by Christina Morina, "Mehrheitsgesellschaften und Judenverfolgung in europäischer Perspektive: Geschichte und Erinnerung" on 26th February, 18:15-19:45 at the UZH Main Building (room tba).

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Session 1 features Debórah Dwork and myself in conversation about "Holocaust Studies: Past, Present and Future." 19th February, 18:15-19:45 at the UZH Main Building (room tba). @deborahdwork.bsky.social @zeitgeschichte-bie.bsky.social

Announcement for a talk by Debórah Dwork on "Holocaust Studies: Past, Present and Future." 19th February, 18:15-19:45 at the UZH Main Building

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