Antisemitism in German Society: New Empirical Research Findings and their Impact

Lars Rensmann

Lars Rensmann, PhD, is Professor of Political Science and Comparative Government at the University of Passau, Germany. From 2016 to 2022, he was Professor of European Politics and Society at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, where he also served as Founding Director of the Research Centre for the Study of Democratic Cultures and Politics. Prior to this, he was the chair of the Department of Political Science and International Relations at John Cabot University in Rome. Rensmann also taught at various leading institutions of higher education around the world, including the University of Michigan, Yale University, the University of Vienna, Haifa University, and Freie Universität Berlin. His books The Politics of Unreason: The Frankfurt School and the Origins of Modern Antisemitism (SUNY Press, 2017), Arendt and Adorno: Political and Philosophical Reflections (Stanford UP, 2012, co-edited with Samir Gandesha), Authoritarianism and Democracy (Wochenschau, 2011, with Hajo Funke & Steffen Hagemann), and Gaming the World (Princeton UP, 2010, with Andrei S. Markovits).

Language: English

Seminar format: online