A public discussion about how we remember tragic events and the pursuit of justice, featuring scholars of both the Holocaust and the Jim Crow South.
Free and open to the public. The River Room is located in the University Center. Parking is available in the Zach Curlin garage.
The University of Memphis will welcome scholars from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for a public discussion about how individuals remember tragic events from the past. “Violence and Memory: Memorializing Historical Traumas from the Holocaust to the Jim Crow South,” will feature three brief presentations followed by a moderated conversation. The event will be held Thursday, Feb. 16, at 6 p.m. in the UC River Room (300). The hope is to offer a better understanding of both the Jim Crow South and the Holocaust. The discussion is free and open to the public.
Dr. Jake Newsome, Campus Outreach Program officer at the Holocaust Museum, will speak on “Pink Triangle Legacies: The International Struggle to Memorialize the Nazis’ Gay Victims.” Dr. Andre E. Johnson, UofM assistant professor of communication, will discuss “A Nation of Murderers: Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and the Rhetoric of Racialized Violence.” Dr. Michele Grigsby Coffey, instructor of history at the UofM, will consider “Legacies of Racial Violence and Distrust in the Civil Rights South.”
This program is part of the “Extrajudicial Violence and Questions of Complicity” series, made possible by the Holocaust Museum. Its partners at the UofM include the Department of History, Department of Communication, Bornblum Judaic Studies, University College and Marcus W. Orr Center for the Humanities.
Those who attend may bring a laptop, tablet or smartphone to ask questions, view documents and give feedback during the presentations.