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About the Book
In June 2014, at a conference co-organized by the University of Victoria in commemoration of the 70th Anniversary of the Holocaust, professors, scholars, museum directors, and activists involved in memorial projects met to discuss the future of Holocaust Studies. This subsequent book publication considers the potential of Holocaust memorialization and memory work to serve as a catalyst for addressing discrimination today by exploring different innovative teaching practices in higher education as well as bold and creative civic and institutional initiatives. Contributing authors come from across Europe and North America and their work showcases new directions in Holocaust education and commemoration.
The book, published by the Tom Lantos Institute, is edited by Andrea Peto, associate professor at Central European University and Helga Thorson, associate professor at UVic. Those interested can download the free electronic version of the book at TLI.
About the Co-Editor
Dr. Helga Thorson is an Associate Professor as well as Chair of the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies. She is the co-founder of “The Future of Holocaust Memorialization: Confronting Racism, Antisemitism and Homophobia through Memory Work” research collective and one of the co-organizers of the group’s first conference at Central European University in Budapest in 2014. Dr. Thorson’s research interests lie in modernist German and Austrian literature, Scandinavian studies, gender studies, history of medicine, foreign language pedagogy, and Holocaust studies.
