Preeminent Holocaust Scholar To Speak
Christopher R. Browning lecture entitled “Decisions for the Final Solution: The Current State of Historical Research”
Buffalo, NY - Christopher R. Browning, preeminent Holocaust scholar, will speak at Canisius College on Wednesday, February 6 at 8:00 p.m. in the Grupp Fireside Lounge located in the Richard E. Winter ’42 Student Center.The lecture entitled, “Decisions for the Final Solution: The Current State of Historical Research,” is free and open to the public.
Browning is the Frank Porter Graham Professor of History at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Previously, he taught at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington.
He received his B.A. degree from Oberlin College in 1967 and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1968 and 1975 respectively.
In 1999, Browning was invited to deliver the George Trevelyan lectures at Cambridge University, a rare honor to be bestowed upon an American historian. He has also served as the J.B. and Maurice Shapiro visiting Scholar at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; has been a fellow of the Institutes for Advanced Studies in Princeton, New Jersey and on the campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
He has received fellowships from the Fulbright Program, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Browning has served as an expert witness in “war crimes” trials in Australia, Canada and Great Britain. He has also served as an expert witness in two “Holocaust denial” cases: the second Zundel trial in Toronto in 1988 and in David Irvin’s libel suit against Deborah Libstadt in London in 2000.
He is the author of five books, “The final Solution and the German Foreign Office” (1978); “Fateful Months: Essays on the Emergence of the Final Solution” (1985); “Ordinary Men: Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland” (1992), “The Path to Genocide” (1992), and “Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers” (2000). The later is based on the George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures that Browning gave at Cambridge University in 1999.
The event is made possible through the college’s Oishei Teaching Professorship, which is funded through the John R. Oishei Foundation. The program enables members of the Canisius faculty to develop creative and exciting academic programs, which if chosen, are funded through the Oishei Program. Drs. Larry E. Jones and Nancy J. Rosenbloom, professors of history, were among the faculty members chosen to receive an Oishei Professorship for their proposal on “The Jewish Experience in Comparative Perspective: Europe and America.”
For further information regarding the lecture, please call Dr. Larry Jones in the Canisius College History Department at 716-888-2686.
Canisius College is one of 28 Jesuit colleges in the nation and the premier private college in Western New York. Canisius prepares leaders – intelligent, caring, faithful individuals – able to pursue and promote excellence in their professions, communities and service to humanity.