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The University of Winnipeg

"Implicated Subjects in the Landscapes of Injustice" webinar

Mon. Jan. 11, 2021

The Unites States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) has collaborated with the University of Victoria to organize a discussion on "Implicated Subjects in the Landscapes of Injustice". A timely discussion on racial injustice and its legacies during the Holocaust and the period of Japanese removal and incarceration in Canada is scheduled to take place on Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27 from 11:00-12:00 PST (1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CST, Winnipeg time).

Charlotte Schallié, Moderator

Professor and Chair of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of Victoria
Her teaching and research interests include post-1945 diasporic and transcultural writing/filmmaking, memory studies, Jewish identity in contemporary cultural discourse, and teaching and learning about the Holocaust (HTL). Her current research project —“Narrative Art and Visual Storytelling in Holocaust and Human Rights Education,” is working on developing a new dialogical-reflective pedagogy in Holocaust and Human Rights education fostering broad and deep collaborations and intercultural exchange between researchers, visual artists, Holocaust survivors, librarians, students, and community members in Canada, Germany, Israel, the Netherlands, and the UK.
1939 Society Samuel Goetz Chair in Holocaust Studies and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles
His latest book is The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators (2019), published by Stanford University Press in their “Cultural Memory in the Present” series. Previous books include Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization (2009), Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representation (2000), and, co-edited with Neil Levi, The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings (2003). With Yasemin Yildiz, he is currently completing Inheritance Trouble: Migrant Archives of Holocaust Remembrance for Fordham University Press.
Provost’s Engaged Scholar, Associate Professor of history, and Project Director of Landscapes of Injustice at the University of Victoria
SSHRC partnership project (2014-2021) to tell the history of the dispossession of Japanese Canadians. His work on this topic has received honours from the Canadian Historical Association, the Society of Regional and Planning History, and the Canadian Race Relations Foundation. His previous book, Witness to Loss, co-edited with Pamela Sugiman, was shortlisted for the Wilson Institute Prize for the best book in Canadian history. His latest book as editor, Landscapes of Injustice: A New Perspective on the Internment and Dispossession of Japanese Canadians is part of the Wilson Institute for Canadian History’s series, Rethinking Canada in the World. 
Time & Date: Wednesday, January 27, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (CST).
Please visit this page for webinar registration. Registration is mandatory. 

Disclaimer
"The US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center’s mission is to ensure the long-term growth and vitality of Holocaust Studies. To do that, it is essential to provide opportunities for new generations of scholars. The vitality and the integrity of Holocaust Studies require openness, independence, and free inquiry so that new ideas are generated and tested through peer review and public debate. The opinions of scholars expressed before, during the course of, or after their activities with the Mandel Center do not represent and are not endorsed by the Museum or its Mandel Center."