About
Speaker: Dr. Christopher Browning
Date: September 25, 2016
Location: Appalachian State University
Description: The keynote lecture of the 2016 annual meeting of the North Carolina Jewish Studies Consortium at App State was given by Dr. Christopher Browning. Browning is one of the foremost experts and key pioneers in the field of Holocaust Studies. His impressive publications include influential works such as Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland, which has redefined the subfield of perpetrator studies, and Origins of the Final Solution. He has given expert witness testimony for Canadian, Australian, and British prosecutors in trials against alleged Nazi perpetrators and Holocaust deniers. Dr. Browning is the Frank Porter Graham Professor Emeritus at the History Department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A gifted lecturer, he speaks on his research around the globe.