Andy Markovits is a scholar with a variegated past. Born in Romania, educated in Vienna and then at Columbia University before coming to the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) at Harvard and teaching at a number of American universities, he experienced both the aftermath of the Holocaust in Europe and the American campus upheavals of the 1960s. This unique upbringing not only informed his scholarship but also shaped the views that brought him to prominence as a public intellectual in Germany. Markovits's recent memoir, The Passport As Home, recounts this personal history against a backdrop of political, social and cultural developments of five decades on two continents. In this seminar, Markovits will discuss his time at CES, his friendship with its founder Guido Goldman, and how his work at the Center led to his becoming a renowned public intellectual in Germany.
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