René Girard Lecture: “Why Did the Holocaust Happen? A History Lesson for the Future”

Date: 
Wednesday, 13 March 2013 - 7:00pm
Location: 
Cubberly Auditorium
Speaker: 
Timothy Snyder (Professor of History, Yale University)

Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin has been translated and acclaimed in German, Polish, French, and around the world. The René Girard Lectures bring thinkers to speak in Paris and Stanford in honor of the unique transatlantic intellectual career of Stanford Professor Emeritus René Girard.

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Co-sponsored by the Department of French and Italian, Imitatio (a project of the Thiel Foundation), the Consulate General of France in San Francisco, and the Department of History