Entangled Memories: Hiroshima, Jerusalem, and the Emergence of Global Memory Culture
When:
Thursday, October 31, 2019
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM CT
Where: Kresge Hall, 1515, 1880 Campus Drive , Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
(847) 491-5288
Group: Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
Co-Sponsor:
The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies
History Department
Department of Art History
Category: Academic
Description:
Entangled Memories: Hiroshima, Jerusalem, and the Emergence of Global Memory Culture
A Talk by Ran Zwigenberg
Ran Zwigenberg is assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University. His research focuses on modern Japanese and European history, with a specialization in memory and intellectual history. Zwigenberg’s first book, Hiroshima: The Origins of Global Memory Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2014), winner of the 2016 Association for Asian Studies’ John W. Hall book award, deals comparatively with the commemoration and the reaction to the Holocaust and the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
Hosted by: PATRICK NOONAN, Asian Languages and Cultures and AYALA LEVIN, Art History. Co-sponsors: CROWN FAMILY CENTER FOR JEWISH AND ISRAEL STUDIES, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, ASIAN STUDIES GRADUATE CLUSTER.