Professor Geroulanos is the Director of the Remarque Institute and a Professor of European Intellectual History at New York University. He serves as a Co-Executive Editor of the Journal of the History of Ideas. In the past, he has also served as Director of the Center for International Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Centre National de Recherche Scientifique/NYU) and, with Gisèle Sapiro, as the co-Principal Investigator of the FACE Foundation's PUF grant Crossroads in Intellectual History (2016-2021). His new book is a history of the concepts, images, and sciences of human origins since 1770. Geroulanos spoke to the students about his motivation for writing about concepts that weave together modern understandings of time, the human, and the body. Students read a chapter of Geroulanos’ book that focused on how modern Germans imagined and constructed myths about prehistoric “Germans” and how these ideas would come to undergird the ethno-nationalism and fascism of the interwar period.