Modern Europe Colloquium | The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany's Twentieth Century

The Modern Europe Colloquium presents Dagmar Herzog, Distinguished Professor of History, CUNY Graduate Center, on "The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany's Twentieth Century"

Bio: 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).

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