The Fortunoff Video Archive will host an online event marking the publication of a special issue of the Journal of Holocaust Research in commemoration of the 90th birthday of Professor Lawrence Langer. Langer, Professor Emeritus at Simmons College, who also contributed a piece to this special issue, remains one of the most productive, important thinkers and authors on Holocaust testimony.
Please join us for a series of short presentations by contributors to the special issue, as well as a response by Professor Langer.
Where: https://yalelibrary.zoom.us/j
When: November 1, 10 AM EST
The following scholars who contributed to the volume will present a short summary of their papers:
-Michal Aharony, Editor, Journal of Holocaust Research
-Gabriel Finder, Co-editor, Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Virginia
-Jennifer L. Geddes, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Virginia
Sarah Horwitz, Professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities at York University, Toronto
-Lawrence Langer, Professor Emeritus, Simmons College
-Barry Langford, Professor, Film Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London
Joanne Rudof, Former Archivist, Fortunoff Video Archive
-Noah Shenker, N. Milgrom and 6a Foundation Senior Lecturer in Holocaust and Genocide Studies within the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation at Monash University
-Dawn Skorczewski, Co-editor, Research Professor of English at Brandeis University, CLUE+ Fellow, VU Amsterdam
-Dan Stone, Co-editor, Professor of Modern History, Royal Holloway, University of London
For more information on the volume:
https://www.tandfonline.com/d
Sponsor: Yale Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies