Dr. Susan Opotow,
Professor, City University of New York, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and The Graduate Center, Faculties of Sociology, Social Psychology, and Criminal Justice
Narrating the Holocaust in German Museums:
Evidence, Exhibitions, and Education
A public lecture to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Thursday, January 27, 2011, 7:30 pm. Reception to follow.
Soloway Jewish Community Centre, Social Hall A.
In her provocative study of Berlin’s museums and sites connected with the Holocaust, Susan Opotow, Professor of Psychology and Sociology at City University of New York, examines interpretive practices for narrating the extreme injustice of the Nazi past to the German public today. These practices raise important moral and pedagogical questions: What should be narrated? How to convey this past to people today?With what effect? These practices, which interpret evidence and memories, are themselves forms of Holocaust remembrance as they surface the past so that it remains present and is not forgotten.
This event is sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Ottawa, the Max and Tessie Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Carleton University, Distinguished Lecturer Program.