CHGS & CGES Spring 2026 Book Club Dates & Titles

This spring CGES is pleased to co-host our book club with the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. The selected titles for this semester explore themes of contested memory surrounding histories of violence and conquest across Europe. Our spring book club also features a special event with the translator of one of the selected titles. 

We hope you will join us on the following Fridays from 4:00 - 5:30pm, 710 Social Sciences.

Friday, March 20th: Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas
Friday, April 17th: A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails By Halyna Kruk 
Followed by “The Composition of Soil: The Holocaust and Holodomor in Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry.”Monday, April 20th at 12:00 noon in Social Sciences 710 - Lecture with Amelia Glaser (Professor of Comparative Literature, UC-San Diego, translator: A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails). 

Please RSVP.