Day 3: Wed, June 7

Wednesday, June 7
Teaching the Holocaust (II): Digital Questions and Holocaust Representation

10:00-12:00:    Panel (1 hr) + Q/A (1 hr) on the Postwar Period and Questions of Representation: Kierra Crago-Schneider, Rachel Deblinger, Paul Jaskot
Discussion Reading: Hansen, Cesarani

12:00-1:00       Lunch

1:00-2:20         Intro to Virtual Reality Demo (at Portals)

2:20-2:40         (Walk back to Museum)

2:40-3:00         Intro to Museum Resources: Film and Video Archive

3:00-3:15         Intro to Museum Resources: Oral History

3:15-3:30         Break

3:30-5:00         [Lecture + Discussion] Testimony: Debates and Materiality
Discussion Readings: Shenker            

Readings:

  • David Cesarani, “Challenging the ‘Myth of Silence’: Postwar responses to the destruction of European Jewry,” in David Cesarani and Eric J. Sundquist, After the Holocaust: Challenging the Myth of Silence, (London: Routledge, 2012) 15 – 38.
  • Miriam Bratu Hansen, “’Schindler’s List’ is not ‘Shoah’: The Second Commandment, Popular Modernism, and Public Memory,” Critical Inquiry 22, no. 2 (Winter 1996), 292-312.
  • Noah Shenker, “Introduction,” Reframing Holocaust Testimony (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016), 1 – 18.
  • Stephen Robertson, “The Differences between Digital Humanities and Digital History” Debates in the Digital Humanities (2016), ed. Mathew K. Gold and Lauren Klein

Additional Reading for Reference:

  • Marianne Hirsch and Irene Kacandes, “Introduction,” in Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust (The Modern Language Association of America, 2004), 1-33.