HOLOCAUST MEMORIALS: ARTISTIC ISSUES LECTURE AT MUHLENBERG COLLEGE
James Young, Ph.D., will give a lecture titled "Memory, Counter-memory and the End of the Monument," discussing artistic issues surrounding public attempts to memorialize the Holocaust, on Monday, February 18, 8 p.m., in the Miller Forum, Moyer Hall at Muhlenberg College. The lecture is free and open to the public.Monday, February 4, 2002 10:38 AM
James Young, Ph.D., will give a lecture titled "Memory, Counter-memory and the End of the Monument," discussing artistic issues surrounding public attempts to memorialize the Holocaust, on Monday, February 18, 8 p.m., in the Miller Forum, Moyer Hall at Muhlenberg College. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Young is Professor of English and Judaic Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and is currently Chair of the Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies. He has extensively studied after-images of the Holocaust in both contemporary art and architecture. One of the primary monuments to be addressed is the Holocaust tribute in Berlin.
In 1997, Professor Young was appointed by the Berlin Senate to the five-member Findungskommission for Germany's national "Memorial to Europe's Murdered Jews," to be built in Berlin. He is also the author of "Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust," "At Memory's Edge: After-images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture," and "The Texture of Memory" which won the National Jewish Book Award in 1994. His books and articles have been published in German, French, Hebrew, Japanese, and Swedish editions.
Young received his Ph.D. from the University of California in 1983. He is also the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the Guggenheim Fellowship, ACLS Fellowship, NEH Exhibition planning, and a Yad Hanadiv Fellowship at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem among others.
The lecture is sponsored by the Muhlenberg College Center for Ethics and Leadership as part of its year-long theme, "Art, Artists and Responsibility."
