Modern Europe Colloquium | Federico Finchelstein and Linda Kinstler

The Modern Europe Colloquium presents Linda Kinstler, Junior Fellow, the Harvard Society of Fellows, and Federico Finchelstein, Professor of History, the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College, on title tba.
Location: HQ (Humanities Quadrangle), Rm 107, 320 York St.

The Modern Europe Colloquium is generously sponsored by the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund; and the European Studies Council of the Yale MacMillan Center

Bio: Linda Kinstler is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Her first book, Come to this Court and Cry, won the 2023 Whiting Award in Nonfiction and was shortlisted for the Wingate Prize for Jewish literature. Linda was also a 2023 finalist for the Kukula Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Book Reviewing, and her reporting for Jewish Currents has been honored by the American Jewish Press Association’s Rockower Awards. Her reporting has been cited by the ICJ and has inspired documentaries. Work appears in The New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic, Wired, and more. She was previously a Marshall Scholar in the UK, where Linda covered British politics for The Atlantic. She has been a contributing writer at Politico Europe, which she helped launch in Brussels in spring 2015. Before that, she was the managing editor of The New Republic, where I covered the war in Ukraine.

Bio: Federico Finchelstein is Professor of History at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College. He has taught at the History Department of Brown University and he received his PhD at Cornell University. Finchelstein is Director of the Janey Program in Latin American Studies at NSSR. Professor Finchelstein is the author of seven books on fascism, populism, Dirty Wars, the Holocaust and Jewish history in Latin America and Europe. His books have been translated into Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Hungarian, Korean and Turkish. Forthcoming book: The Wannabe Fascists: A Guide to Understanding the Greatest Threat to Democracy (University of California Press, May 2024)