Talk - History@Newcastle Seminar: Omer Bartov (Brown U), "The Never Again Syndrome: Uses and Misuses of Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Global Politics” || History Week 2024 - Marking Time

Talk - History@Newcastle Seminar: Omer Bartov (Brown U), "The Never Again Syndrome: Uses and Misuses of Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Global Politics”

This lecture will raise some fundamental questions regarding the use and abuse of the Holocaust as a historical event, a traumatic memory, and a warning to future generations. Was the Holocaust unique, and if so, what can we learn from it? Was the pledge to prevent genocide from happening again kept, and if not, why? Can the mass murder of the Jews serve as a guide to the nations of the world, and in what ways? If the Holocaust was the clearest justification for the need to create a Jewish state, what role has it played in Israel's history for the last seven decades?

Omer Bartov is the Samuel Pisar Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University. He is currently writing a book tentatively titled “The Broken Promise: A Personal-Political History of Israel and Palestine”.

This event is co-hosted by the Centre for the Study of Violence, UON https://www.newcastle.edu.au/research/centre/csov

Zoom meeting ID: 870 4036 3272

Password: 783069

https://uonewcastle.zoom.us/j/87040363272?pwd=QTJQait4ZFFMa1pKYVgzQzhPTHF5Zz09

Presentation recordings will be available from our YouTube channel, History@Newcastle: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiju7vKLANeSX4QxBpMwJow

Ticket Cost: Free

Event Contact: Dr Sacha Davis, History@Newcastle, University of Newcastle

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Image credit: Omer Bartov, supplied

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