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Lecture examines the politics of memory
March 07, 2008
Omer Bartov of Brown University will speak at the 34th annual Walter C. Schnackenberg Memorial Lecture March 16 at 7 p.m. in room 201 of Xavier Hall.
Bartov’s most recent book, “Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine,” is the topic and title of his lecture. In the book, he considers the politics of memory in the Western Ukraine, including the widespread removal of both memory and the physical remains of Jewish culture there.
Bartov has edited three volumes and authored seven books. Earlier books have dealt with the German Wehrmacht and the Holocaust, genocidal connections between World Wars I and II, and connections between violence, representation and identity in the 20th century.
Born in Israel and educated at Tel Aviv University and St. Antony’s College Oxford, Bartov is currently the John P. Birkelund Professor of European History at Brown. Previously, he was the Raoul Wallenberg Professor in Human Rights and Senior Fellow at Rutgers University.
He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among his accolades are fellowships at Harvard University, the Davis Center for Historical Studies at Vienna, the American Academy in Berlin, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Bartov has edited three volumes and authored seven books. Earlier books have dealt with the German Wehrmacht and the Holocaust, genocidal connections between World Wars I and II, and connections between violence, representation and identity in the 20th century.
Born in Israel and educated at Tel Aviv University and St. Antony’s College Oxford, Bartov is currently the John P. Birkelund Professor of European History at Brown. Previously, he was the Raoul Wallenberg Professor in Human Rights and Senior Fellow at Rutgers University.
He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among his accolades are fellowships at Harvard University, the Davis Center for Historical Studies at Vienna, the American Academy in Berlin, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.