Online Event: Release of Journal of Holocaust Research Issue in Honor of Lawrence Langer’s Work

The Fortunoff Video Archive will host an online event marking the publication of a special issue of the Journal of Holocaust Research in commemoration of the 90th birthday of Professor Lawrence Langer. Langer, Professor Emeritus at Simmons College, who also contributed a piece to this special issue, remains one of the most productive, important thinkers and authors on Holocaust testimony.

Please join us for a series of short presentations by contributors to the special issue, as well as a response by Professor Langer.

Where: https://yalelibrary.zoom.us/j/93572820306
When: November 1, 10 AM EST

The following scholars who contributed to the volume will present a short summary of their papers:

• Michal Aharony, Editor, Journal of Holocaust Research
• Gabriel Finder, Co-editor, Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Virginia
• Jennifer L. Geddes, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Virginia
• Sarah Horwitz, Professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities at York University, Toronto
• Lawrence Langer, Professor Emeritus, Simmons College
• Barry Langford, Professor, Film Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London
• Joanne Rudof, Former Archivist, Fortunoff Video Archive
• Noah Shenker, N. Milgrom and 6a Foundation Senior Lecturer in Holocaust and Genocide Studies within the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation at Monash University
• Dawn Skorczewski, Co-editor, Research Professor of English at Brandeis University, CLUE+ Fellow, VU Amsterdam
• Dan Stone, Co-editor, Professor of Modern History, Royal Holloway, University of London

For more information on the volume, visit https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25785648.2020.1824355