The Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History: "Refugees (Not) Welcome: European Exile Scholars at Harvard in the 1930s and 1940s"

This seminar aims to contribute to the ongoing debate surrounding the complex response to Nazism and the Holocaust in the United States during the 1930s and early 1940s. Specifically, it focuses on Harvard’s ambivalent role in rescuing displaced scholars and sheds light on the challenges faced by Harvard professors who were willing to assist their European colleagues in perilous circumstances.
 

Iryna Mykhailova, EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow, Early Modern World, Harvard University
Laurel Leff, Professor of Journalism, Northeastern University
Sebastian Musch, Alfred Landecker Lecturer, Department of History and the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS), Osnabrück University; Starr Fellow Spring 2024, Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University

Chair: Peter E. Gordon, Amabel B. James Professor of History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Affiliate, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University; Faculty Affiliate, Department of Philosophy, Harvard University