CHGS & CGES Spring 2026 Book Club Dates & Titles

January 7, 2026

This spring CGES is pleased to co-host our book club with the Center for Holocaust & 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 to 5:30 PM, 710 Social Sciences.

Friday, March 20: Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas
Friday, April 17: 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 20 at noon in Social Sciences 710 - Lecture with Amelia Glaser (Professor of Comparative Literature, UC-San Diego, translator: A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails).