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Symposium: Material Culture and the Holocaust

October 4, 2018 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm UTC+0

Free

How do the things we leave behind tell the story of a life? Material culture—the study of ordinary objects—is another way to study complex traumatic histories such as the Holocaust. Experts in the diverse fields of material culture and Holocaust studies will address the major developments in their research over the past 20 years; the ethical issues arising from the study, storage, and exhibition of traumatic material culture; and the application of material culture research and collecting methodologies to Holocaust studies.

Keynote Address

Caroline Sturdy Colls, Professor of Conflict Archaeology and Genocide Investigation, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom

Panel One: Opportunities and Challenges to the Study of Traumatic Material Culture

Panel Two: Conserving and Exhibiting Traumatic Material Culture

Panel Three: Digital Technologies and Material Culture

This program is made possible through support from the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation.

Details

Date:
October 4, 2018
Time:
10:00 am - 5:00 pm UTC+0
Cost:
Free
Website:
https://www.ushmm.org/online-calendar/event/MCHMATCULTHOL1018

Venue

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW
Washington, DC 20024 United States
Phone
202.488.0460
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