Jonathon Catlin
@joncatlin.bsky.social
Intellectual history, German & Jewish studies, climate catastrophe | Postdoc at the University of Rochester Humanities Center | PhD from Princeton | Edits @jhideas.bsky.social | Rochester • NYC • Berlin 🏳️🌈
https://rochester.academia.edu/JonathonCatlin
https://rochester.academia.edu/JonathonCatlin
Jonathan Boyarin:
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November 2, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Jonathan Boyarin:
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Excited to be hosting historian Doris Bergen at the @urochester.bsky.social Humanities Center on Oct. 29 for a lecture on the collapse of German democracy in the Nazi era. Could there be any parallels to today, I wonder? 🤔
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October 17, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Excited to be hosting historian Doris Bergen at the @urochester.bsky.social Humanities Center on Oct. 29 for a lecture on the collapse of German democracy in the Nazi era. Could there be any parallels to today, I wonder? 🤔
events.rochester.edu/event/how-ea...
events.rochester.edu/event/how-ea...
They're here! In just a few weeks I'll be hosting the brilliant Dagmar Herzog to explore the "sexy racism" of the contemporary far right. Those in Rochester, if you'd like a copy of this book and commit to attending the workshop, write me and I'll give you one!
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events.rochester.edu/event/the-ne...
October 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
They're here! In just a few weeks I'll be hosting the brilliant Dagmar Herzog to explore the "sexy racism" of the contemporary far right. Those in Rochester, if you'd like a copy of this book and commit to attending the workshop, write me and I'll give you one!
events.rochester.edu/event/the-ne...
events.rochester.edu/event/the-ne...
Throwback to when I was an insufferable theory bro humanities grad student living in Bushwick
October 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Throwback to when I was an insufferable theory bro humanities grad student living in Bushwick
Drove past this evangelical church today outside Chicago and was blinded by a dozen giant Israeli flags
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October 5, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Drove past this evangelical church today outside Chicago and was blinded by a dozen giant Israeli flags
ingrace.us/about/
ingrace.us/about/
Please join me for a virtual conversation with Dan Stone on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 12:15pm Eastern, about his many new publications on the Holocaust in Romania, the International Tracing Service, and volume 1 of The Cambridge History of the Holocaust. Register here:
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events.rochester.edu/event/the-ho...
October 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Please join me for a virtual conversation with Dan Stone on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 12:15pm Eastern, about his many new publications on the Holocaust in Romania, the International Tracing Service, and volume 1 of The Cambridge History of the Holocaust. Register here:
events.rochester.edu/event/the-ho...
events.rochester.edu/event/the-ho...
Me when university admin suggests I tone down the wokeness
September 30, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Me when university admin suggests I tone down the wokeness
New York friends and colleagues: I'm presenting my work on the failures of German Holocaust memory culture at Columbia in two weeks! Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
September 30, 2025 at 12:53 PM
New York friends and colleagues: I'm presenting my work on the failures of German Holocaust memory culture at Columbia in two weeks! Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Overseen at Berlin’s 100,000 strong demonstration in solidarity with Gaza
September 29, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Overseen at Berlin’s 100,000 strong demonstration in solidarity with Gaza
From Moira Wegel’s talk this morning at the GSA: Andrew Breitbart on his hatred of the Frankfurt School (aka “Berlin Franklin School”)
September 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
From Moira Wegel’s talk this morning at the GSA: Andrew Breitbart on his hatred of the Frankfurt School (aka “Berlin Franklin School”)
"A question of intent: Is what's happening in Gaza genocide?"
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September 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
"A question of intent: Is what's happening in Gaza genocide?"
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Catastrophe for sale once again in Deutschland.
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September 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Catastrophe for sale once again in Deutschland.
www.the-berliner.com/politics/is-...
www.the-berliner.com/politics/is-...
Happy Birthday, Theodor W. Adorno. You (still) would have hated it here!
September 11, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Happy Birthday, Theodor W. Adorno. You (still) would have hated it here!
“The novel is always an attempt to reconcile the consciousness of writer and reader with the objective world at large; so it is that the judgments we make on the great novelists fall not on them, but on the moment of history which they reflect…” – Fredric Jameson glossing Adorno in Marxism and Form
September 10, 2025 at 5:21 PM
“The novel is always an attempt to reconcile the consciousness of writer and reader with the objective world at large; so it is that the judgments we make on the great novelists fall not on them, but on the moment of history which they reflect…” – Fredric Jameson glossing Adorno in Marxism and Form
Teddie Adorno strikes again
September 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Teddie Adorno strikes again
Me to literature scholars:
September 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Me to literature scholars:
Some light reading on the train as I prepare to field questions from my students about the F-word today
September 9, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Some light reading on the train as I prepare to field questions from my students about the F-word today
Urteil: unglaublich
September 6, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Urteil: unglaublich
Together with Karyn Ball I'm organizing a seminar on "The Catastrophic Event in Times of Permanent Catastrophe" for the next ACLA in Montreal in Feb. 2026. Please consider sending in a short paper abstract by 10/2 to join us. Theory folks from all disciplines welcome!
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September 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Together with Karyn Ball I'm organizing a seminar on "The Catastrophic Event in Times of Permanent Catastrophe" for the next ACLA in Montreal in Feb. 2026. Please consider sending in a short paper abstract by 10/2 to join us. Theory folks from all disciplines welcome!
www.acla.org/seminar/f9b3...
www.acla.org/seminar/f9b3...
My course "The Holocaust in History and Memory" at University of Rochester is off to a great start! Alongside it I've organized a 6-part speaker series ft. Doris Bergen and Dagmar Herzog in person (details below), and Federico Marcon, Dan Stone, and Kathryn Brackney via Zoom (details forthcoming)
September 2, 2025 at 4:10 PM
My course "The Holocaust in History and Memory" at University of Rochester is off to a great start! Alongside it I've organized a 6-part speaker series ft. Doris Bergen and Dagmar Herzog in person (details below), and Federico Marcon, Dan Stone, and Kathryn Brackney via Zoom (details forthcoming)
As I'm always telling my students...
August 30, 2025 at 10:17 PM
As I'm always telling my students...
Federico Marcon interviewed on his new book, “Fascism: The History of a Word” (@uchicagopress.bsky.social, 2025). Excited to dive into the book soon myself for an interview with Federico for the JHI Blog and a virtual event discussing the book:
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August 12, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Federico Marcon interviewed on his new book, “Fascism: The History of a Word” (@uchicagopress.bsky.social, 2025). Excited to dive into the book soon myself for an interview with Federico for the JHI Blog and a virtual event discussing the book:
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