UVA Jewish Studies Faculty to Participate in "Difficult Pasts" Symposium
Several UVA faculty will be presenting at the next iteration of the Difficult Pasts series: "Ethics & Aesthetics of Telling Difficult Histories," co-sponosred by UVA Jewish Studies. UVA Jewish Studies Director Jennifer Geddes will present Costly Narratives and Painful Knowledge: Giving and Receiving Holocaust Testimonies in the "Telling Difficult Histories" panel, and incoming Donald Black Chair in Holocaust Studies Caroline Sturdy Colls will present In the Ground, On the Walls and in the Archive: Recovering Lost Voices at the Trawniki Camps for the "Recovering Lost Voices" panel. Professor Jeffrey Grossman (German and Jewish Studies) will also be participating in the scholars' conversation and symposium.
The symposium will take place at Queens University Belfast in Ireland from October 5-6. Registration is open for in-person attendance.