Yale’s Anna Duensing to Speak at WWU about Holocaust Memory and the Afterlife of Fascism Jan. 23

Yale University doctoral candidate of History and African American Studies Anna Duensing will give a talk entitled “A Heritage of Fascists Without Labels: Holocaust Memory and the Afterlife of Fascism in the Long Civil Rights Movement” at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 23 in Bond Hall 105. 

This event is free and open to the public.  

Duensing specializes in transnational and global histories of antifascism, black radicalism, Holocaust memory, and far-right massive resistance within the long civil rights movement. 

This event is made possible by the Campus Outreach Lecture Program of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, supported by the Leonard and Sophie Davis Fund. 

This event is co-sponsored by the History Department, the Ray Wolpow Institute for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes against Humanity, the Political Science Department, the Sociology Department, and the Department of American Cultural Studies.