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Connectivity and Civil Religion: Digitizing and Disciplining Holocaust Memory

Lecture by Wulf Kansteiner, Professor WSR

Info about event

Time

Wednesday 14 September 2016,  at 18:30 - 21:30

Location

Axis Mundi - building 1451, room 117

Holocaust Memory has been established as civil religion in the West since the 1970s. But the venerable tradition has problems transitioning into the digital age as a closer look at museum culture, social media, and the video game industry indicates. The established strategies of remembering the Shoah are difficult to reconcile with an increasingly simulative, immersive, and counterfactual historical culture facilitated by digitization.