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POSTPONED Panel Event: 'The Holocaust in Contemporary Museums: Contexts, Inclusions, Exclusions' Seminar

Origin:
History
Time:
18:00 - 19:30
Date:
12 March 2019
Venue:
Lecture Theatre C Avenue Campus University of Southampton SO171BF

For more information regarding this seminar, please email Professor Neil Gregor at n.gregor@soton.ac.uk .

Event details

Part of the History Research Seminar Series for 2018/19. All welcome.

How is, how should, and how can the Holocaust and its associated histories be represented in museums?  In this panel-style event Alexandra Cropper, curator at the Manchester Jewish Museum, discusses the new galleries at the museum and the thinking behind them; Tony Kushner discusses his work with the Imperial War Museum, London, and its ongoing remodeling of the Holocaust exhibition there; Neil Gregor discusses his involvement with the pedagogical plans at the Nuremberg Party Rally Grounds, where the restoration of the iconic, but crumbling Zeppelintribüne is currently underway.

Speaker information

Alexandra Cropper , Manchester Jewish Museum. Curator

Professor Tony Kushner ,Marcus Sieff Professor of the History of Jewish/non Jewish Relations

Professor Neil Gregor ,Professor of Modern European History

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