Between History and Memory: Women in the Holocaust Lecture
Thursday, March 21, 2019 at 6 PM – 7:30 PM
Buffalo & Erie County Public Library – Central Library
1 Lafayette Square Buffalo, NY 15203
A special lecture by Dr. Karolina Krasuska.
Who are the women in the Holocaust that are remembered? This lecture will reflect on the reasons why some women are remembered and others are forgotten, tracing these differences across cultural, social, and political divides. Dr. Krasuska will also examine selected key literary works and film productions to answer the question: “Why does it matter that we pay attention to gender difference in Holocaust history and memory”?
Dr. Karolina Krasuska is an Assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw, Poland where she also serves as the Vice Director for Research at the Institute for the Americas and Europe. She holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder, Germany. She has published on transnational modernism, gender, queer and Jewishness, including the monograph Płeć i naród: Trans/lokacje [Gender and nation: Trans/locations].
She is also a co-editor and co-author of the first gender encyclopedia in Polish and the Polish translator of the gender studies classic Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble. Her most recent book publication is the collection Women and the Holocaust: New Perspectives and Challenges (2015), which she co-edited with Andrea Petö and Louise Hecht. Currently, she is working on a project on gendered modes in 21st -century Jewish American literature.
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