7 November 2024 | 5:30 pm |Higgins Lounge
Dana Commons
Albert M. Tapper Annual Lecture
Keynote
Speaker: Omer Bartov (Samuel Pisar Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University)
Perspectives on Holocaust in Ukraine: Local History, First-Person History, and Fiction
This lecture will explore what we can learn from the Holocaust in the multiethnic region of Galicia from a local study, what the findings of this research can tell us about the Holocaust more generally, and how a focus on first-person history can help us reconstruct the world that was irretrievably lost in war and genocide. Referring to Bartov’s two monographs, Anatomy of a Genocide and Tales from the Borderlands, the talk will conclude with ruminations related to Bartov’s novel, The Butterfly and the Axe, on how the lives erased by the violence of mass murder can be brought back to our consciousness through fiction.
Reception to follow.
Sponsored by the Albert M. Tapper Charitable Foundation
Workshop
8 November 2024 | 9:00am – 6:00pm| Higgins Lounge | Dana Commons
This workshop will examine recent challenges and developments in the field of history, memory, and representation of the Holocaust in Ukraine. Do wartime exigencies require that Ukrainian scholars, in particular, rethink and reframe the curriculum of Holocaust studies? What role should Ukrainian history play in teaching about the Holocaust in Eastern Europe? How does the war impact the methodology and theoretical framework of research? What new fields of research are emerging in response to contemporary events, and what is their future? How do issues of patriotism and politics impact research on the complicated and inconvenient Ukrainian past (e.g., collaboration with the Nazis, complicity in the Holocaust, war crimes of the Ukrainian nationalist underground movement)? What is the role of memorial sites in Ukraine like Babyn Yar and Drobytskyi Yar in teaching “the lessons” of the Holocaust, considering new atrocities experienced by people in Ukraine as a result of Russian aggression? How does the memory of the Russo-Ukrainian war relate to the memory of Ukraine?
For more information and to register for the workshop please contact Robyn Conroy at rconroy@yeyajob.com
Sponsored by David and Derrek Shulman