Grimm Lecture 2017 - Timothy Snyder: The Holocaust as History and Warning

[Lori Straus]

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Timothy Snyder, author of the widely successful book Black Earth, believes we have misunderstood the Holocaust and the essential lessons it should have taught us. If the Holocaust was indeed, as Snyder’s carefully constructed argument will demonstrate, a result of ecological panic and state destruction, then our misunderstanding of it has endangered our own future. The world of the early twenty-first century resembles the world of the early twentieth more than we realize—and some of our own sensibilities are closer to those of Europeans of the 1930s than we might like to think. As Snyder will explain, we cannot afford to confine the Holocaust to museums and memory. If we do not understand the lessons of the Holocaust, an unprecedented crime could become a precedent for the future.

The 2017 Jacob-&-Wilhelm Grimm Lecture is co-sponsored by the Department of Germanic & Slavic Studies, the University of Waterloo Faculty of Arts, the Department of History, and the Joseph & Wolf Lebovic Chair of Jewish Studies. The UW Bookstore will be on hand to sell several of Snyder's books, including Black Earth.

When: Monday, February 6 @7pm
Where: Modern Languages, Theatre of the Arts

Tickets strongly recommended. You can order yours (free, of course) here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/2017-grimm-lecture-timothy-snyder-tickets-29482994430

For more information, visit the Waterloo Centre for German Studies’ website<http://wcgs.ca/>.
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Lori Straus
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