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SUMMARY:UTD Ackerman Center | "From Privilege to Responsibility: Holocaust Memory in a Post-October 7 Context"
DESCRIPTION:UTD Ackerman Center invites&nbsp\;you\nto join us virtually for a timely and thought-provoking lecture "From\nPrivilege to Responsibility: Holocaust Memory in a Post-October 7 Context"\nby Dr. William Kolbrener. Dr. Kolbrener is an English Professor at Bar Ilan\nUniversity in Israel\, and Executive Director of Writing on the Wall\,\na platform dedicated to creative expression after October 7th. \nHolocaust memory has long served as a central moral framework in modern culture\, shaping how evil is recognized and judged. Yet in recent decades\, that memory has been absorbed into broader narratives of power and privilege\, altering its function. October 7 brings this shift into view. The largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust did not produce the moral clarity that Holocaust remembrance once seemed to guarantee but was instead interpreted through frameworks in which Jewish vulnerability is difficult to register. \nDr. Kolbrener's talk considers what follows from that failure. If Holocaust memory no longer operates as a limit case in the present\, then its meaning cannot be secured through inheritance alone. The question is not only how it is remembered\, but what it demands.\nTo register\, click here.&nbsp\;
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
URL:https://thgaac.texas.gov/calendar/event/362136
CATEGORIES:Speaking Engagements
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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