{"id":6539,"date":"2025-05-08T11:24:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T15:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/events\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=6539"},"modified":"2025-11-13T15:32:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T20:32:36","slug":"lessons-and-legacies-of-the-holocaust-inaugural-emerging-scholars-conference","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/events\/event\/lessons-and-legacies-of-the-holocaust-inaugural-emerging-scholars-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons and Legacies of the Holocaust: Inaugural Emerging Scholars Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Albert M. Tapper Annual Lecture<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keynote: <\/strong>Lessons and Legacies of the Holocaust: Inaugural Emerging Scholars Conference<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaker: Sarah Casteel (Professor of English, Carleton University<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Holocaust Studies From the Outside In: Art and Relational Thinking in Times of Crisis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the aftermath of October 7th<\/sup>, as the contemporary meaning and relevance of the Holocaust come under greater pressure, Holocaust studies is confronting existential questions regarding its purpose and future. This talk considers how remapping the field through unconventional disciplinary, cultural, and geographical lenses can help scholars to navigate these challenges. In keeping with the field\u2019s recent colonial turn, it identifies wartime and contemporary literature and visual art that present Holocaust experience as entangled with other histories of violence. In particular, Black writing and art about the Holocaust promote a relational understanding of shared and intersecting histories that combats contemporary polarization. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Keynote address sponsored by the Albert M. Tapper Charitable Foundation <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

7 November \u2013 9 November | 9:00 a.m. \u2013 6:30 p.m. | Higgins Lounge
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Lessons and Legacies of the Holocaust: Inaugural Emerging Scholars Conference<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The conference aims to bring together scholars working in different languages, disciplines, discourses, and methodologies for intellectual exchange, networking, and mentorship. Topics include a broad variety of aspects of the Holocaust, its causes, history, memory, and representation, and comparative approaches. This conference also serves as the sixth conference in the Strassler Center\u2019s series of graduate student conferences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Presented by the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies in cooperation with the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University (HEFNU)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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