Events
Cosponsors
- The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities
- Alliance Program
- Columbia University Press
- Dean of Humanities
- Department of Germanic Languages
- Department of History
- Knapp Family Foundation
Organizer
- Columbia Maison Française
Contact
email address [email protected]
Notes
- Free and open to the public
- Registration required.
- This event is held in cooperation with the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts and the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education.
Sylvie Lindeperg discusses her book Staging Nuremberg: How the United States and the Soviet Union Fought Over the Portrayal of Nazi Crimes.
Following the screening of Filmmakers for the Prosecution on October 18, Sylvie Lindeperg presents an illustrated lecture featuring the archival research for her award-winning book, Staging Nuremberg: How the United States and the Soviet Union Fought Over the Portrayal of Nazi Crimes (2026), Columbia University Press’s translation of La Bataille des images (2021). Lindeperg will be joined in conversation by Annette Insdorf.
Speakers
Sylvie Lindeperg is Professor of History at the University of Paris/Panthéon-Sorbonne, and a member of the Institut universitaire de France. Her research focuses on the intersection of cinema, history, and memory, the Second World War, and international justice. She is also known for her earlier book, Night and Fog: A Film in History (Minnesota, 2014).
Annette Insdorf is Professor of Film at the Columbia School of the Arts, an expert on films about the Holocaust, and the author of Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust.
This event is part of the Maison Française film series History on Trial and is organized by the Maison Française and School of the Arts Film and Media Studies program.