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Colleagues may be interested in the following Distinguished Guest Lecture at the UCD Humanities Institute: *Professor Jeffrey Olick* *Charlottesville and the End of American Exceptionalism: * *Perspectives from Memory Studies* 9 April @ 4pm, UCD Humanities Institute *Jeffrey Olick is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia.* Olick is author of *The Politics of Regret: On Collective Memory and Historical Responsibility*, *In the House of the Hangman: The Agonies of German Defeat*, and *The Sins of the Fathers: Germany, Memory, Method*. Olick has edited the work of Theodor Adorno, and is Editor of the field-defining *Collective Memory Reader*, States of Memory: Continuities, Conflicts and Transformations in National Retrospection, and he is currently editing a 6-volume Cultural History of Memory. Olick is the founding Co-President of the International Memory Studies Association. This lecture is funded as part of the* Media, Encounter, Witness* research strand (2017-20) at the UCD Humanities Institute, convened by Emilie Pine (School of English, Drama and Film) and Emily Mark-Fitzgerald (School of Art History and Cultural Policy). With best wishes Anne Professor Anne Fuchs, FBA, MRIA Director Humanities Institute University College Dublin Belfield Dublin D04 V1W8 T: 00353 (01) 7164684