Asperger's Nazi Science: A Conversation with Herwig Czech and Edith Sheffer

Herwig Czech, lecturer for medical history at University of Vienna, and Edith Sheffer, senior fellow at UC Berkeley's Institute of European Studies, discuss the Nazi origins of discovering Asperger's syndrome. Moderated by Venise Wagner, professor of Journalism. This lecture kicks off the Department of Jewish Studies 2018 - 19 lecture series, Holocaust Across the Disciplines. Funded in part by the Morris Weiss Award in Holocaust Education. Reception to follow. Co-sponsors: Holocaust Center of San Francisco (a division of Jewish Family and Children's Services), departments of Journalism and Special Education.