{"id":21137,"date":"2021-04-14T13:05:46","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T17:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=21137"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:50:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:50:04","slug":"jennifer-evans-talks-about-how-social-media-is-used-to-discuss-the-holocaust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2021\/jennifer-evans-talks-about-how-social-media-is-used-to-discuss-the-holocaust\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Evans Talks about How Social Media is used to Discuss the Holocaust"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Jennifer Evans Talks about How Social Media is used to Discuss the Holocaust\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n
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Jennifer Evans<\/a>, a professor of History at Carleton University (Ottawa), defines her primary research interests as \u201cthe history of sexuality and visual culture, especially the role of photography and social media as agents of historical meaning.\u201d She is an avid blogger and a primary shaper of \u201cThe New Fascism Syllabus: Exploring the New Right through Scholarship and Civic Engagement,\u201d an online resource that is intended to provide curricular ideas and sources to university instructors. Dr. Evans\u2019s many publications include Life Among the Ruins: Cityscape and Sexuality in Cold War Berlin<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor Evans is currently working on a monograph that focuses on the intersection of social media and Holocaust memory. In her talk on April 7, “Social Media and Long Shadow of the Holocaus<\/a>t,” she discussed how platforms like Facebook are used to discuss the Holocaust \u2013 sometimes to minimize or even deny it, but often to spread knowledge of it and of the lessons that are implicit in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presented by the College of Liberal Arts and the School of History, Philosophy and Religious Studies. The talk took place on Wednesday, April 7 via Zoom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jennifer Evans, a professor of History at Carleton University (Ottawa), defines her primary research interests as \u201cthe history of sexuality and visual culture, especially the role of photography and social media as agents of historical meaning.\u201d She is an avid blogger and a primary shaper of \u201cThe New Fascism Syllabus: Exploring the New Right through […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21140,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21137\/revisions\/21140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}