#uploading_holocaust Film Premiere and Roundtable Discussion on Memory, Dark Tourism and Art in the Digital Age Event

- Time:
- 18:00 - 19:30
- Date:
- 13 April 2021
- Venue:
- Online
For more information regarding this event, please email Parkes Institute at parkes@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
Part of the Parkes Institute series 2021/22. All welcome.
Join the Parkes Institute for the UK premiere of the documentary film #uploading_holocaust and a round table discussion about memory, dark tourism and art in the digital age.
#uploading_holocaust, directed by Udi Nir and Sagi Bornstein, is composed of video clips and YouTube footage filmed by Israeli youth during their educational 'Journey to Poland’. It offers a unique point of view of a new generation, while revealing a moving and troubling image of the way collective memory is formed in the age of social media. The movie will be made free to stream between April 8-15, and a roundtable event featuring the film's director as well as experts in Holocaust studies and of memory in the digital age, will be held on April 13th.
Speaker information
Udi Nir , writer, director, and producer. His first feature documentary was #uploading_holocaust (2016), followed by GOLDA (2019). Before turning to documentary film Udi was a playwright, a theatre and dance producer and worked for Amnesty International and other human rights NGOs.
Dr Meghan Lundrigan , a History scholar with focus on dark tourism, YouTube, and memory. Lundrigan recently collaborated on the book Holocaust Memory in the Digital Mediascape . She is a History Research Associate with Know History Inc.
Dr Jackie Feldman , a Professor in Sociology and Anthropology at Ben Gurion University and author of Above the Death Pits, Beneath the Flag: Youth Voyages to Poland and the Performance of Israeli National Identity.
Chair:
Dr James Jordan , University of Southampton, Parkes Institute of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations.
Registration
Please note this is a free event but please register by clicking on the link above, you will then receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the event.