5:30 - 7:00 p.m. (EDT) | Oechsle Hall 224 Auditorium, Lafayette College | Open to the public | More information

Our traveling exhibition, Thomas Mann: Democracy Will Win!, will be displayed at Lafayette College this fall. Celebrating the exhibition opening, the Chair of Comparative Literature and Associate Professor of German Studies at Dartmouth University, Veronika Fuechtner, will hold the Max Kade Distinguished Lecture in German Studies on "The Migrations of the Mann Family."

The exhibit explores the trajectory of Mann’s political development in relation to different categories such as personal background, Zeitgeist, his political commitments, actions, and responsibility. Viewers are invited to interrogate their own beliefs and paths alongside those of Thomas Mann. A series of film clips connects these different topics with ongoing debates and critical moments in contemporary history such as the 2017 Charlottesville riot, the Black Lives Matter Movement, climate change mitigation, and the global refugee and immigration crises.

The exhibition will be displayed at Lafayette College from August 28 until October 25, 2024.

Learn more about the exhibition here.

Speaker

Veronika Fuechtner is Chair of Comparative Literature and Associate Professor of German Studies at Dartmouth College. She also teaches in Jewish Studies, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She is the author of Berlin Psychoanalytic (University of California Press, 2011) and the co-editor of Imagining Germany, Imagining Asia (with Mary Rhiel, Camden House, 2013) and A Global History of Sexual Science 1880-1960 (with Douglas E. Haynes and Ryan Jones, University of California Press, 2017). She is completing a monograph on Thomas and Heinrich Mann's Brazilian mother, Julia Mann, and the Mann family construction of race and "Germanness." Her research interests include the history of psychoanalysis and sexology, the relationship between science and culture, discourses on race and ethnicity, German-language modernism, contemporary culture, German-language film, and global cultural and scientific histories.

An event by the Max Kade Center for German Studies in collaboration with the Thomas Mann House.