College News

8 November 2004

Holocaust & 20th Century History Research Centre Lecture

The Holocaust and 20th Century History Research Centre Lecture, On the Need to Write about the Shoah: Looking at the Work of Jurek Becker, Germany's Survivor-Author, by Professor Sander Gilman, will take place at Royal Holloway, University of London, in the Main Lecture Theatre, on Monday 15 November at 5.30 p.m.

The lecture will look at the work of the German Jewish child-survivor Jurek Becker as a space to discuss the claims of modern trauma theory and the Shoah. His work is a place where the absence of any Jewish identity as well as any memories of the Shoah did not preclude him from authoring a major trilogy on the Shoah.

Sander Gilman, from the University of Illinois at Chicago, is a professor of the Liberal Arts and Medicine, the Director of the Humanities Laboratory and the author and editor of over 60 books. He was the first non-historian to be awarded the Mertes Prize of the German Historical Institute (1997) and the first non-German-born Germanist to be awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize (1998) of the Humboldt Foundation.

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