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cover of episode On memory and comparison with guest speaker Prof Michael Rothberg (University of California, Los Angeles)

On memory and comparison with guest speaker Prof Michael Rothberg (University of California, Los Angeles)

2022/7/29
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The Connecting Memories Podcast

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The guest speaker for this episode is Prof Michael Rothberg (University of California, Los Angeles).

Prof Rothberg presents a talk entitled ‘Debating Holocaust Memory: The Politics of Comparison in Contemporary Germany’ and we discuss the ethics of Holocaust comparisons, Holocaust memory in a postmigrant society, and the recent public debate in Germany known as the Historikerstreit 2.0 (Historians’ Dispute 2.0).