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"Mosse's Europe: New Perspectives in the History of German Judaism, Fascism, and Sexuality"
https://mosseprogram.wisc.edu/berlin-2019
6 June 2019
Roger Strauch, “The Mosse Art Restitution Project: A Personal Perspective”
Roger Strauch is Chairman of The Roda Group, a seed stage venture capital company he co-founded in 1997 with Dan Miller. The firm is focused on investment opportunities that address the consequences of climate change, stress on the Earth’s natural resources and the increased demand for low carbon energy. Roger was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Cool Systems, (recently sold to Avanos Medical Inc., NYSE: AVNS). He was the first CEO of Ask Jeeves (now Ask.com) and served as CEO of public companies, Symmetricom, and TCSI Corp. He recently retired as Chairman of the Board of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (Berkeley, California). He is a member of the Engineering Dean’s College Advisory Board of the University of California at Berkeley and Roger is an active philanthropist in academia, theatrical arts and chairs a family foundation which supports humanitarian projects. Roger leads the Mosse Art Restitution Project, one of the world’s largest efforts to restitute Nazi expropriated artifacts. Roger received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, with distinction, from Cornell University and his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
For more information, see Contemporary Europe in the Historical Imagination (https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/6103.htm) by Darcy Buerkle and Skye Doney, published by the University of Wisconsin Press. © 2023 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. All rights reserved.
Sponsored by:
George L. Mosse Program in History
Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
The Mosse Foundation
Deutsches Historisches Museum
Jüdisches Museum Berlin
University of Wisconsin-Madison History Department
Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hebrew University of Jerusalem Department of History
Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History
Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung
Technische Universität Berlin
Koebner Center for German History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Leo Baeck Institute London
Leo Baeck Institute New York
Mosse-Lectures an der Humboldt-Universität
Schwules Museum Berlin
"Mosse's Europe: New Perspectives in the History of German Judaism, Fascism, and Sexuality"
https://mosseprogram.wisc.edu/berlin-2019
6 June 2019
Roger Strauch, “The Mosse Art Restitution Project: A Personal Perspective”
Roger Strauch is Chairman of The Roda Group, a seed stage venture capital company he co-founded in 1997 with Dan Miller. The firm is focused on investment opportunities that address the consequences of climate change, stress on the Earth’s natural resources and the increased demand for low carbon energy. Roger was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Cool Systems, (recently sold to Avanos Medical Inc., NYSE: AVNS). He was the first CEO of Ask Jeeves (now Ask.com) and served as CEO of public companies, Symmetricom, and TCSI Corp. He recently retired as Chairman of the Board of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (Berkeley, California). He is a member of the Engineering Dean’s College Advisory Board of the University of California at Berkeley and Roger is an active philanthropist in academia, theatrical arts and chairs a family foundation which supports humanitarian projects. Roger leads the Mosse Art Restitution Project, one of the world’s largest efforts to restitute Nazi expropriated artifacts. Roger received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, with distinction, from Cornell University and his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
For more information, see Contemporary Europe in the Historical Imagination (https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/6103.htm) by Darcy Buerkle and Skye Doney, published by the University of Wisconsin Press. © 2023 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. All rights reserved.
Sponsored by:
George L. Mosse Program in History
Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
The Mosse Foundation
Deutsches Historisches Museum
Jüdisches Museum Berlin
University of Wisconsin-Madison History Department
Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hebrew University of Jerusalem Department of History
Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History
Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung
Technische Universität Berlin
Koebner Center for German History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Leo Baeck Institute London
Leo Baeck Institute New York
Mosse-Lectures an der Humboldt-Universität
Schwules Museum Berlin










