Dear all,
Sorry for the very late notification, but in case you're in or near Newcastle tomorrow, please come along to this week's research seminar talk, delivered by Elise Bath, who's writing her PhD thesis on photographs in Holocaust exhibitions.
The talk will take place tomorrow, Thursday 5 May, 4-5pm, at Newcastle University, in the Barbara Strang Teaching Centre, room B.30.
Title: "Images of the Holocaust: Atrocity Photographs in the Museum"
Abstract: This talk aims to investigate the use of atrocity images in Holocaust museums, exploring the benefits and costs of displaying such images, and demonstrating how this issue is approached in various institutions. In an age of increasing Holocaust denial and revisionism, is it a duty to use and display such images for their evidential capacity, or do these photographs merely exploit those depicted, freezing them forever in public view at the moment of their persecution and torture? Using examples from fieldwork carried out in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Jewish Museum Berlin, and others, I hope to demonstrate some of the risks associated with the display of such images, and present some alternative methods of depicting horror used in those institutions.
The talk is part of our seminar series on Trauma Narratives.
All welcome!!
Dr Beate Müller
Reader in Modern German Studies
Head of German
School of Modern Languages
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sml/staff/profile/beate.muller
https://newcastle.academia.edu/BeateM%C3%BCller
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