| Name of Speaker: Professor Alon Cofino Date: October 21, 2015 Location: Appalachian State University Alon Confino on "A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide" Professor Confino is one of the most innovative and vibrant scholars in the fields of Modern German History, Holocaust and Memory Studies. He grew up in Jerusalem and attended Tel Aviv University. Having completed his undergraduate studies in Israel, he moved to the U.S., where he entered the graduate program in history at the University of California at Berkeley, earning a Ph.D. Alon Confino currently holds full professorships at Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Israel and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. |