PAScapes invites you to a public lecture by Sorbonne University Professor Luba Jurgenson, exploring Landscape as Witness of Violence: Memory of the Living.
Her research focuses on the memory of violence in Eastern and Central Europe, as well as Judaism and literary modernity. In one of her recent articles, Why is Landscape Research Important for Holocaust Studies?, she conceptually considers questions such as how the intersection of Memory Studies and Landscape Studies can help us understand the ways landscapes preserve the traces of mass violence? How landscapes shape representations of the Holocaust and what active role they played in the genocidal project?
Professor Jurgenson is Director of the Center of Interdisciplinary Research on Central, Eastern, and Balkan Europe at Université Sorbonne, and leads the seminar “Narrative, Fiction, History” at the Centre de Recherches sur les Arts et le Langage. She also serves on the editorial boards of Memories at Stake and the Interdisciplinary Inventory of Notions and Concepts of Testimony and Memory Areas.
Date & Time: October 3, 3:00 PM
Location: Room 330, Faculty of History, Vilnius University
