Dreams as Inspiration, Insights, Foreshadowing and Evidence: A Panel Discussion Through the Lens of “The Third Reich of Dreams”
Tuesday, September 2, 2025; 3:00-5:15pm | Location: School of Information Sciences, 614 E. Daniel St., Champaign, Room 4045. No registration needed.
moderated by Steve Witt, Director, Center for Global Studies and Head of the International and Area Studies Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in conversation with
- Amanda Rubin, Documentary Filmmaker and Journalist
- Brett Ashley Kaplan, Director of Holocaust Genocide and Memory Studies, Professor
- Melita M. Graza, Associate Professor and Tom and June Netzel Sleeman Scholar in Business Journalism
This interdisciplinary panel contemplates the role of dreams, the focus of Charlotte Beradt’s book “The Third Reich of Dreams” (Princeton Press, 2025). Amanda Rubin, documentary filmmaker and journalist, who brought this long-overlooked classic back to print, and other panelists will explore whether these manifestations of the unconscious mind are random thoughts, seeds for inspiration, or do they offer insights into how we make sense of the world, foreshadow reality through intuition, evidence of waking experience, or something else. What does Beradt’s book offer to our reader in contemporary times?
CO-SPONSORS: Champaign Urbana Jewish Federation | Mortenson Center for International Library Programs | The Program in Jewish Culture & Society | School of Information Sciences | UNESCO Center for Global Citizenship | University of Illinois Library Urbana-Champaign
SUPPORTERS:The Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, Memory Studies