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We are delighted to invite you to the launch of a new publication, co-edited by Imogen Wiltshire (Lincoln) and Fransiska Louwagie (Aberdeen):
Displacement, Memory and the Visual Arts: Second-Generation (Jewish) Artists
Special Issue of European Judaism, Volume 56, No. 1, Spring 2023.
Comprising articles by academics, artists and curators, this new publication, co-edited by Imogen Wiltshire (Lincoln) and Fransiska Louwagie (Aberdeen), explores second-generation visual art practices in the UK, as well as the Netherlands, Canada and Israel. It analyses how visual artists belonging to the second generation of Holocaust survivors (i.e. children of deportees and refugees from Nazism) have engaged with postmemory and the inherited trauma of displacement, absence and silence. Second-generation practices in the visual arts have received relatively little systematic scholarly attention in comparison to the work of first-generation artists or second-generation writers. This volume thus addresses a critical gap and brings together studies on a range of media, including photography, painting, drawing, graphic novels, printmaking, sculpture, mixed-media installations, and participatory and site-specific activity. It opens up possibilities for considering the relationships of second-generation artists to the past, and, more widely, for revisiting contemporary understanding and remembrances of the Holocaust and its aftermath.Programme
Introduction
Laura Gill (Lincoln): Welcome
Imogen Wiltshire (Lincoln) and Fransiska Louwagie (Aberdeen): Displacement, Memory and the Visual Arts - an introduction
Object Lessons: a panel discussion in four interventions
Monica Bohm-Duchen (Insiders/Outsiders Festival)
Rachel Dickson (Ben Uri Gallery)
Eliad Moreh-Rosenberg (Yad Vashem)
Olivia Hennessy (Holocaust Educational Trust)
Chair: Hans C. Hönes (Aberdeen)
Q&A
Chair: Hans C. Hönes (Aberdeen)
The event is co-organised by the University of Lincoln (School of Humanities and Heritage), the University of Aberdeen (George Washington Wilson Centre for Art and Visual Culture and Centre for Modern Languages Research) and the Holocaust Educational Trust.
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