What makes life worth living? Which lives are worthy of being cherished? Who gets to make those determinations? This session brings together two historians who have reflected deeply on these universal questions. Whether they study concepts whose meanings are taken for granted and seem self-evident鈥攍ike choice or disability鈥攐r look at topics that are hotly contested - like democracy and truth or sex and fascism鈥攂oth are attuned to the very real consequences of battles over meanings and moralities. Please join the Haystack Book Festival in welcoming Sophia Rosenfeld, author of The Age of Choice, alongside Dagmar Herzog, author of The Question of Unworthy Life.