Upcoming events

Each year we host a series of free seminars and lectures which is open to graduates, students, staff and members of the public:

Hybrid book talk - "Writing Cultural Histories of Nazi Germany: Thoughts from the Concert Hall" by Professor Neil Gregor.

Joint event with the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust Studies (SBC) and the Centre for Regional and Local History (CRLH), open to all.

5.30pm BST in Room 101, Attenborough Building at the University of Leicester.

Those who cannot attend in person are welcome to join us online.

In this talk, Professor Gregor (University of Southampton) will reflect on what the study of orchestras and their audiences can tell us about the social and cultural history of Nazi Germany more generally. He will place the regime’s attempts to engineer a new “listening community” in the concert hall from 1933 onwards into dialogue with wider questions surrounding the transformation or otherwise of German subjectivities during the Nazi era.

Dispensing with belletristic conceits regarding the concert hall as a space of political and emotional retreat, he will share insights into how the mobilization of German society behind the regime’s politics was pursued in the domain of classical music. 

In person - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1982462822669?aff=oddtdtcreator 

Online - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1982463973110?aff=oddtdtcreator