Historian Catherine Chatterley to Address Struggles Over Holocaust Memory

Catherine Chatterley

Catherine Chatterley

Historian Catherine Chatterley, a member of the Louis D. Brandeis Center’s Academic Advisory Board, will deliver a lecture on April 11 on “Canada’s Struggle with Holocaust Memorialization:
The War Museum Controversy, Ethnic Identity Politics, &
the Canadian Museum for Human Rights” at the Canadian Institute for Jewish Research in Montreal.  It is sadly true that the preservation of Holocaust memory has become an intensely polarizing political issue in some academic and political circles, not only in the Middle East and Europe but also in North America.  Dr. Chatterley, the Founding Director of the Canadian Institute for the Study of Antisemitismis an astute social critic as well as an accomplished scholar, so this event promises to be worth attending.

 

Thursday April 11, 2013
5:15pm
”Canada’s Struggle with Holocaust Memorialization:
The War Museum Controversy, Ethnic Identity Politics, &
the Canadian Museum for Human Rights”
    Dr. Catherine ChatterleyDr. Catherine Chatterley is Founding Director of the
Canadian Institute for the Study of Antisemitism (CISA)  & Adjunct
Professor of History, University of ManitobaLecture to take place at the CIJR Office

FREE ADMISSION   SPACE LIMITED
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