Winchell Lecture
The Richard Dean Winchell Annual History Lecture Endowment fosters and supports the College of Arts and Sciences in its mission to enhance student, faculty, and community discourse on values and cultural heritage.
2024 Richard Dean Winchell Lecture |
"Producing a 'Usable' Past: Holocaust Distortion and New Threats to the Memory of the Holocaust"
On March 26th the Department of History welcomed Dr. Jan Grabowski as this year's Richard Dean Winchell Lecturer. Dr. Grabowski, University of Ottawa, specializes in Jewish-Polish relations in German-occupied Poland during World War II. Unlike holocaust deniers, people, institutions, and states engaging in Holocaust distortion do not deny the factuality of the Jewish catastrophe. They simply deny that their people, their ethnic group, or their nation, had anything to do with the event. Using the massive resources of the state, they falsify the historical narrative in order to make it compatible with various national myths. This talk focused on Poland, a place where a great majority of the victims of the Holocaust were put to death and a place where Holocaust distortion has become a quasi-official policy of the state.
Co-sponsored by UNO's Sam and Frances Fried Holocaust and Genocide Academy.
Winchell Lecturers (1997-Present)
2022-2023 Kathleen Belew, "Understanding White Supremacy: Decoding the Actions of the White Power Movement." (April 2023)
2020-2021 Lisa Tetrault, "When Women Won the Right to Vote: An American Fiction" (September 2020)
2019-2020 Daniel R. Wildcat, "The Indigenous Human Rights Legacy of the Late Vine Deloria, Jr." (November 2019)
2018-2019 Martha S. Jones, "Birthright Citizens" (September 2018)
2017-2018 Sarah Lopez, "Mapping the Marginal Role of Design in Immigrant Detention in Texas, 1950s-present" (November 2017)
2016-2017 Philip J. Deloria, "Toward an American Indian Abstract: The Art and Politics of Mary Sully" (November 2016)
2015-2016 Graham Wrightson and Carolyn Willekes, "Marching with Alexander the Great" (April 2016)
2014-2015 Christopher Browning, "Survivor Testimony and Holocaust History: The Case of the Starachowice Factory Slave Labor Camps" (November 2014) *Listen here on KIOS
2013-2014 Kim E. Nielsen, "Helen Keller, Anne Sullivan Macy, and the Blurry Lenses of Disability History" (September 2013)
2012-2013 William Tsutsui, "From Hiroshima to Fukushima: Godzilla and Postwar Japan" (October 2012)
2011-2012 Peter Coclanis, "Would Slavery Have Survived Without the Civil War?"(October 2011)
2010-2011 Stephanie Coontz, "Courting Trouble: The Past and Future of Marriage in America" (April 2011)
2009-2010 Clayton Laurie, "Accountability and the CIA" (March 2010)
2009-2010 Sam Walker, "The Great Presidential Speeches They Did Not Give: Presidents and Civil Liberties, Wilson to Bush" (October 2009)
2008-2009 Alan E. Steinweis, "The Kristallnacht Pogrom in Germany, November 1938: Myths and Realities" (November 2008)
2007-2008 Floyd Abrams, "History, Journalists, and the Law in the New Century" (April 2008)
2005-2006 Thomas Borstelmann, "The Changing Face of America's Enemies" (September 2005)
2004-2005 Marcus Rediker, "Villains of All Nations" (September 2004)
2003-2004 Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, "Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History" (September 2003)
2002-2003 Alan Bernstein, "The Formation of Hell in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages" (October 2002)
2001-2002 Eugene N. Borza, "Alexander the Great in Our Time" (February 2002)
1999-2000 Eric Monkkonen, "American Murders: Patterns of Two Centuries"
1998-1999 Joyce Appleby, "Completing the Revolution, The First Generation of Americans"
1997-1998 Dane Kennedy, "Sir Richard Francis Burton and the Uses of Orientalism"
1996-1997 Thomas Neville Bonner, "The Academy Then and Now: A Personal Odyssey" (October 1997)