Join us on September 14 at 11 am Pacific Time for the virtual Sawchen Lecture Series, featuring Dr. Roma Sendyka of Jagiellonian University, Poland. This talk is co-sponsored by the Consulate of the Republic of Poland in Vancouver, and is part of the Witnessing Auschwitz Conference 2022.
View the recording of this talk here:
Title: “Uncommemorated Genocide Sites and Collective Memory”
Abstract: The talk follows the post-1945 site usages of the former German Nazi labour and concentration camp KL Plaszow. It strives to identify changes in visiting public and attitudes toward the idea of the site musealisation. It attempts to assess the current state of discussions stemming from the clash of official and grassroots policies toward the site’s future.
Bio: Director of the Research Center for Memory Cultures, Dr. Roma Sendyka teaches at the Anthropology of Literature and Cultural Studies Department at the Faculty of Polish Studies, Jagiellonian University, Krakow. She is the co-founder of the Curatorial Collective and specializes in criticism and theory, visual culture studies, and memory studies. Dr. Sendyka focuses on relations between images, sites and memory, and is currently working on a project on non-sites of memory in Central and Eastern Europe.
