{"id":9583,"date":"2019-01-28T08:00:48","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/?p=9583"},"modified":"2019-02-17T12:47:43","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T17:47:43","slug":"stetson-spotlight-series-presents-eric-kurlander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/2019\/01\/9583\/","title":{"rendered":"Stetson Spotlight Series Presents: Eric Kurlander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/programs\/spotlight\/\"><strong>2018-19 Stetson Spotlight Series<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0continues on\u00a0<strong>February 1\u00a0<\/strong>with a presentation by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/other\/faculty\/eric-kurlander.php\">Dr. Eric Kurlander<\/a>, Professor of History, who will speak on <strong>\u201cBefore the Final Solution: A Global History of the Nazi &#8216;Jewish Question&#8217;\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: Friday, February 1<br \/>\n<strong>Time<\/strong>: 1:30 pm- 2:30 pm<br \/>\n<strong>Location<\/strong>: Lynn Business Center 124<br \/>\nSnacks will be available. All are welcome!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">SPOTLIGHT NOW OFFERS CULTURAL CREDIT!<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong>Please encourage your students to attend.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"font-size: 17px; line-height: 150%; color: #000; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addevent.com\/event\/cr2323851\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Add event to calendar<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px; text-align: center;\"><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addevent.com\/event\/cr2323851\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/addevent.com\/gfx\/email-iconset-t1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nClick\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/programs\/spotlight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>\u00a0for a complete schedule of Stetson\u2019s Spotlight Series.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>\u201c<strong>Before the Final Solution: A Global History of the Nazi &#8216;Jewish Question&#8217;<\/strong><strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the \u201cJewish Question\u201d is discussed by historians, it is almost always examined as a prelude to the Holocaust\u2013\u2013 what the Nazis called the \u201cFinal Solution [Endl\u00f6sung]\u201d to the \u201cJewish Question [Judenfrage].\u201d What gets overlooked in this understandable focus on genocide is that the \u201cFinal Solution\u201d emerged very late in the history of the Nazi \u201cJewish Question,\u201d after many other so-called \u201csolutions\u201d had been pursued. At the center of my new book project is the question: What were the various conceptions and \u201csolutions\u201d to the (Nazi) \u201cJewish Question\u201d in the period before the \u201cFinal Solution\u201d? To what degree did other European and non-European states help define, determine, or oppose these conceptions of the \u201cJewish Question\u201d and its various solutions? What were the ethnonational and geographic, political-institutional, cultural and intellectual, and socioeconomic constraints? In my Spotlight talk, I plan to outline the contours of my larger book project in response to these questions, using the preliminary research I gathered in Summer 2018 as evidence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9584 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/new-eric-kurlander.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"267\" \/><\/em><i>Eric Kurlander<\/i>, Ph.D., is a professor of modern European history at Stetson University. Kurlander earned his B.A. at Bowdoin College and his M.A. and Ph.D. at Harvard University, teaching three years at Harvard before coming to Stetson in 2001. He offers courses on Modern German, European and World History. His recent monograph,\u00a0<em>Hitler\u2019s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich\u00a0<\/em>(Yale, 2017), offers the first comprehensive study of the supernatural in Nazi Germany, illustrating how the Third Reich drew upon a wide variety of occult practices, esoteric sciences and pagan religious ideas to gain power, shape propaganda and policy, and pursue their dreams of racial utopia and empire. The book has been reviewed positively in the Washington Post, Times of London, Der Spiegel, the National Review, as well as other prominent periodicals in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Germany, France, and Italy. The book has recently appeared in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/yalebooks.yale.edu\/book\/9780300189452\/hitlers-monsters\">paperback<\/a>\u00a0and been translated into Italian and Polish.<\/p>\n<h4>Stetson Spotlight Series<\/h4>\n<p>The Stetson Spotlight Series at Stetson University is a showcase of faculty research, creative inquiry, and other scholarly engagement to the campus community. Presenters are primarily recipients of grant awards through the Stetson Summer Grant Program.<\/p>\n<p>Click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/programs\/spotlight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>\u00a0for a complete schedule of the Stetson Spotlight Series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a02018-19 Stetson Spotlight Series\u00a0continues on\u00a0February 1\u00a0with a presentation by Dr. Eric Kurlander, Professor of History, who will speak on \u201cBefore the Final Solution: A Global History of the Nazi &#8216;Jewish Question&#8217;\u201d. Date: Friday, February 1 Time: 1:30 pm- 2:30 pm Location: Lynn Business Center 124 Snacks will be available. All are welcome! 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