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Peter Pulzer, Gladstone Professor Emeritus of Government and Public Administration and a Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford University, will speak on “Germany in World Politics: Participant or Bystander?” 7:30 p.m. today at the Max Kade Center for German Studies, Pardee Hall room 429..
The lecture by Pulzer, one of the foremost experts on German and Austrian Jewish relations, anti-Semitism, liberalism, and democracy, is the 2004 Max Kade Distinguished Lecture A reception will follow.
The talk is the final of three public lectures by Pulzer during his visit to campus this week, which has included interaction with students and faculty. His residency has been hosted by Lafayette’s Max Kade Center for German Studies, which is directed by Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger, associate professor of foreign languages and literatures.
He spoke on “Contemporary European Anti-Semitism” 7:30 p.m. Monday in the Kirby Hall of Civil Rights auditorium and was featured at a faculty forum on British politics that day. He also talked about “The Third Reich as Seen by German and Austrian Historians” Wednesday at the Kade Center..
Ilan Peleg, Charles A. Dana Professor of Social Science, met Pulzer while taking a sabbatical as a Senior Associate Member at St. Antony’s College at Oxford during the 2002-03 school year. Peleg also was a Skirball Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, the largest institution of its type in Europe.
“Professor Pulzer has a wide reputation as a great scholar and an excellent lecturer,” says Peleg, who recommended Pulzer as “the ideal candidate” to give the Max Kade Distinguished Lecture. Pulzer is a charismatic speaker and terrific person, he adds.
Pulzer is the author of Jews and the German State: The Political History of a Minority, 1948-1933 (2003); Germany, 1870-1945: Politics, State Formation, and War(1997); German Politics: 1994-1995 (1997); Political Representation and Elections in Britain (1967); and many other books and articles. He also is co-editor of Austria, 1945-1995 (Ashgate, 1998).
Born in Vienna in 1929, Pulzer immigrated to Britain in 1939. Having excelled at Cambridge as a student, he served in the Royal Air Force and returned to Cambridge for his doctoral studies. He was then invited to be a professor at Oxford.
All Souls College at Oxford is considered the most prestigious of the 39 colleges in the most ancient of all British universities.
Pulzer’s visit is sponsored by the Max Kade Foundation, Hillel Society, and the departments of government & law, history, and international affairs.