MillerComm Lecture Series
How We Talk About the Holocaust
Wednesday, September 5th, 2001
Peter Novick
7:30 pm
Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center
919 West Illinois Street
Urbana
Event Description
Peter Novick, author of the widely acclaimed book, The Holocaust in American Life, reflects on the meanings of such concepts of Holocaust discourse as incomprehensibility, uniqueness, trauma and memory.
Hosted by: Drobny Program for Jewish Culture and Society
In conjunction with: Department of Anthropology, Department of English, Department of History, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Office of Continuing Education, Program for the Study of Religion, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
Peter Novick
Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of Chicago