Victor Klemperer was a German-Jewish literary scholar and philologist who, despite his conversion to Christianity, was persecuted by the Nazi regime during World War II. Klemperer's life and work (notably his post-war book, LTI-La langue du IIIe Reich) has experienced a resurgence of interest lately in France, where his diaries from 1933-1945 were recently translated. Acclaimed art historian and theorist Georges Didi-Huberman also sparked renewed interest in Klemperer with his recent publication of "Le témoin jusqu'au but: Une lecture de Victor Klemperer" (2022). In this special lecture, Prof. Philippe Roger will explore Klemperer's work--strikingly relevant still today--on the many ways dictatorships manipulate and distort language to decidedly nefarious and ideological ends.