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A New Part C Course “Holocaust in Latvian Culture”

The Mover (Tēvs nakts), dir. Dāvis Sīmanis

In spring semester 2020, the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Latvia offers a new studies course “Holocaust in Latvian Culture.” During the course, the students will familiarise themselves with the reasons and the chronology of the Holocaust in Latvia and in the world, discuss the interaction between the modern communication environment and culture, as well as the viability of supranational stories in the space of a national memory.

The course involves an excursion in the territory of the former Riga ghetto, a visit to the museum “Jews in Latvia” and the Žanis Lipke Memorial. A special lecture will be organised with the students from the USA (Florida Southern College) who will arrive in Riga within the framework of a cultural exchange programme.

Lectures will take place in the main building of the University of Latvia, Rainis Boulevard 19, Room 240.

Learn more and read full description of the course here.

The course will be taught by Claims Conference University Partnership in Holocaust Studies Lecturer Dr. sc. comm. Didzis Bērziņš who obtained his doctoral degree in 2015 at the University of Latvia after defending his doctoral thesis “Communication and Ethics of Social Memory: Discourses of the Holocaust in Latvia (1945–2014)”.

This course has been funded by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference).

Everybody is welcome to attend!

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