Talk
Museums and the Remembrance of the Shoah

with Dr. Leora Auslander, University of Chicago and Dr. Mirjam Wenzel, Jewish Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Thu, 12/12/2024
6:00 PM CT Goethe-Institut Chicago

How is the Shoah addressed in museums? How do museums extend the representation and education of this singular rupture in the history of humankind to other genocides? What can be understood as universal lesson from the Shoah, and what consequences need to be drawn from it when it comes to the question of solidarity?

Please join us for a discussion between historian and philosopher Dr. Leora Auslander, Chair of the Department of Race, Diaspora and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago, and literary critic Dr. Mirjam Wenzel, director of the Jewish Museum Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Double Exposure
What matters more: community or society?
Individual freedom or solidarity?
What constitutes a society based on solidarity?

These questions are of great urgency in these times. Polarization and division seem currently to be the tried and tested means of political discussion. Global migration is intensifying the discussion about who has what duties towards whom, who should show solidarity towards whom and who can be denied solidarity.

In discussions between German and US philosophers and experts such as Omri Boehm, Susannah Heschel, Jan-Werner Müller and Susan Neiman, the differences and similarities on both sides of the Atlantic will be debated when it comes to what holds a society together. All in-person events will be recorded and published as podcasts. Listen now wherever your get your podcasts!
 
Double Exposure is a project organized by the Goethe-Instituts North America in collaboration with the American Council on Germany and funded by the Executive Board of the Goethe-Institut.