Legacies of Genocide: Mauthausen and its Memorialization

Date: November 2nd, 2022
Duration: 1h:0m:21s

Do we have an ethical responsibility toward “violated spaces” like those of a former concentration camp? What legacy do such spaces create for us? And how might cultural differences alter our perceptions of the memorial in our 21st century? Join Dr. Rebecca Rovit, Associate Professor of Theatre at the University of Kansas, who explores the Nazi-era Mauthausen concentration camp as a site of remembrance connected to violence that permeated Austrian soil.

This program is part of the 2022-23 Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) and National Endowment for the Humanities Colloquium, “Trauma, Remembrance and Compassion” and is aligned with the KHC’s original exhibition, “The Concentration Camps: Inside the Nazi System of Incarceration and Genocide” (https://khc.qcc.cuny.edu/camps/). The event is organized by the KHC at Queensborough Community College and is co-sponsored by the Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust and Humanity Center; the Ray Wolpow Institute for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity at Western Washington University; and the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights at Rutgers University. For more information about the Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center, please visit https://khc.qcc.cuny.edu

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