Hutton Honors College

Discussion Supper with Fritz Stern
Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University

• Wednesday, March 28, 2007
• 5-6:30 p.m.
• Honors House, 324 N. Jordan Ave.
• SIGN-UP REQUIRED

Fritz Stern, Professor Emeritus at Columbia University, is a scholar of German, Jewish, and American history whose research has included perceptive and influential accounts of the rise of Nazism, its roots, and the resulting Holocaust as well as of the German-American relationship since 1945. Born in Breslau, Germany, (modern Wroclaw, Poland) to Jewish parents, Stern fled Germany with his family in 1938. Educated in the United States, he has been an influential advisor to U.S. policy makers and a highly regarded public commentator on the current relationship between the United States and Europe. He has received many honors and awards, including the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. In 2002, he returned to his birthplace to receive an honorary degree from the University of Wroc?aw, the alma mater of his father and grandfather, on its 300th anniversary. His books include The Politics of Cultural Despair: A Study of the Rise of the Germanic Ideology; Dreams and Delusion: The Drama of German History; Einstein's German World; and Five Germanies I Have Known.

On campus as a Patten Lecturer, Stern will deliver a public lecture on "The Second Thirty Years' War: Europe 1914-1945" on Monday, March 26, at 7:30 p.m. and a second public lecture on "The Historian and His Own Time: A Witness of 20th Century History" on Wednesday, March 28, at 7:30 p.m. Both lectures will be in Rawles 100.

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