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).