The Modern Europe Colloquium presents Linda Kinstler, Junior Fellow, the Harvard Society of Fellows and Federico Finchelstein, Professor and Chair of History, the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College, on “Memory After Fascism”
Location: HQ (Humanities Quadrangle), Rm 107, 320 York St.
The Modern Europe Colloquium is generously sponsored by the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund; and the European Studies Council of the Yale MacMillan Center
Bio: Linda Kinstler is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Her first book, Come to this Court and Cry, won the 2023 Whiting Award in Nonfiction and was shortlisted for the Wingate Prize for Jewish literature. Linda was also a 2023 finalist for the Kukula Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Book Reviewing, and her reporting for Jewish Currents has been honored by the American Jewish Press Association’s Rockower Awards. Her reporting has been cited by the ICJ and has inspired documentaries. Work appears in The New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic, Wired, and more. She was previously a Marshall Scholar in the UK, where Linda covered British politics for The Atlantic. She has been a contributing writer at Politico Europe, which she helped launch in Brussels in spring 2015. Before that, she was the managing editor of The New Republic, where I covered the war in Ukraine.
Bio: Federico Finchelstein is Professor of History at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College. He has taught at the History Department of Brown University and he received his PhD at Cornell University. Finchelstein is Director of the Janey Program in Latin American Studies at NSSR. Professor Finchelstein is the author of 8 books on fascism, populism, Dirty Wars, the Holocaust and Jewish history in Latin America and Europe. His books have been translated into Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Hungarian, Korean and Turkish.Finchelstein’s books have received 75 reviews in academic journals. They were also reviewed in newspapers and media such as The Washington Post, Financial Times, Clarín, La Nación & La Voz del Interior (Argentina), La Repubblica, Corriere della Sera, Avvenire, Messaggero, Il Manifesto (Italy), Milenio (Mexico), El País and ABC (Spain) and El País (Uruguay). Professor Finchelstein has published more than fifty academic articles and reviews on Fascism, Latin American Populism, the relationship between history and political theory, the Cold War, Genocide and Antisemitism in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German and Italian publications, both in collective books and specialized peer review journals in the United States, the United Kingdom, Mexico, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Israel, Brazil, and Argentina. He has been a contributor to major American, European, and Latin American newspapers and media, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Clarin (Argentina), Folha de S.Paulo (Brazil), Domani Giornale (Italy), Corriere della Sera (Italy), Politico, Mediapart (France), The Guardian (UK), CNN, Foreign Policy, The New Republic and Reuters.