The GCLR is pleased to announce our co-sponsorship of the UCSB Italian Studies Program inaugural Charles R. Ross Distinguished Lecture in Italian Studies—“Race, Gender, and Population in Italy from Mussolini’s ‘Battle of Babies’ to Meloni’s ‘Ethnic Substitution’”—to be given by historian Prof. Ruth Ben-Ghiat (NYU) on February 6, 2025 at 5pm in the Annenberg Room (4315 SSMS).

We anticipate that the lecture will be of great interest to faculty and students who are interested in race, gender, and politics, both past and present. An abstract for the lecture can be found here.

Time: Thursday, January 23, 5pm. Place: (Phelps Hall #6320)

Eva Geulen is Director of the Centre for Literary and Cultural Research in Berlin and she teaches at Humboldt University. She has held teaching positions at Stanford University, the University of Rochester, and New York University, and she has been a professor of German Literature at the Universities of Bonn and Frankfurt. Her research focuses on literature and philosophy from the eighteenth century to the present, pedagogical discourses around 1800 and 1900, and Goethe’s interest in morphology and its reception in the twentieth century. Her publications include Aus dem Leben der Form. Goethes Morphologie und die Nager (2016), The End of Art: Readings of a Rumor after Hegel (2006); Giorgio Agamben zur Einführung (2005), Worthörig wider Willen. Darstellungsproblematik und Sprachreflexion in der Prosa Adalbert Stifters (1992), as well as essays on Nietzsche, Benjamin, Raabe, Thomas Mann and others.