02:00pm - 04:00pm  An Archive in Contexts: The USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive

Speaker: Prof. Jeffrey Shandler This lecture examines the Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive as a major project of public memory situated in a series of contexts: Jewish ethnographies, public memory projects at the turn of the millennium, and the different media used to document the Holocaust. Jeffrey Shandler is Professor of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University.  He received a PhD in Yiddish Studies from Columbia University and has held post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania and New York University.  Shandler has also been a visiting scholar at the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Center, Tel Aviv University; the Center for Religion and ...