When   Tuesday, November 17, 2009   Time   7:00 PM - 9:00 PM  
Where   1703 Orrington Avenue  
Audience   - Faculty/Staff - Student - Public
Contact   Beverly Zeldin-Palmer   +1 847 467 3970  
Group   Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
More Info   www.epl.org

The study of the Holocaust has made great advances during the past two decades, but myths and misconceptions persist about many aspects of the subject, especially among the general public.  Prof. Hayes will discuss the most misleading of these notions and show how historical research has made them untenable.

Peter Hayes, Theodore Zev Weiss Holocaust Educational Foundation Professor of Holocaust Studies, specializes in the history of Germany in the 20th century, particularly the Nazi period. He is the author or editor of seven books, including From Cooperation to Complicity: Degussa in the Third Reich (2004) and a prize-winning study of the IG Farben corporation in the Nazi era. He is currently working on two other books: Profits and Persecution: German Big Business and the Holocaust and The Failure of a Generation: German Elites and National Socialism.