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HEFNU Virtual Speakers Bureau Highlight Event:

"Representing the Holocaust: A Comparative Approach"

Wednesday, March 4, 10-11 PT/12-1 CT/1-2 ET
Online Only | Registration required

Featuring Hilary Earl (Nipissing University), Samantha Mitschke (Independent Scholar), and Kathryn Huether (UCLA)

Over the past eighty years, the Holocaust—one of the most systematically executed genocides in modern history—has been represented across a wide range of media: literature, music, film, theater, visual art, photography, museums, memorials, and, more recently, virtual and digital environments. Each of these forms offers distinct possibilities for expression, remembrance, and education, while also presenting ethical, aesthetic, and historical challenges.

This Virtual Speakers Bureau event brings together scholars specializing in photography, music/sound, and theater to explore how different media shape our collective understanding of the Holocaust. Together, they will examine questions of representation and authorship: What can and should be expressed—and by whom? How do artistic forms mediate memory, trauma, and testimony in ways that continue to evolve with new technologies?

Join this Highlight Event to hear how leading scholars in the Holocaust Educational Foundation's Virtual Speakers Bureau could bring their expertise into your classroom.

Registration Link:

https://northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/register/B1oSahEkTByciDl8RETrJw