Under the Rubble: History & Memory in Israel-Palestine & Germany

When and Where

Tuesday, December 03, 2024 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
MN Grand Hall, University of Toronto Mississauga

Speakers

Rebecca Wittmann (University of Toronto)
Omer Bartov (Brown University)
Esmat Elhalaby (University of Toronto)

Description

He left the house to buy some bread for his kids.
News of his death made it home,
but not the bread.
No bread.
-- Under the Rubble, by Mosab Abu Toha

Rebecca Wittmann is Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on the Holocaust and postwar Germany, trials of Nazi perpetrators and terrorists, and German legal history. Her book, Beyond Justice: The Auschwitz Trial won the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History. Her edited volume, The Eichmann Trial Reconsidered, has recently been published with the University of Toronto Press.

Omer Bartov was born in Israel and educated at Tel Aviv University and St. Antony's College, Oxford. His early research concerned the Nazi indoctrination of the Wehrmacht and the crimes it committed in World War II, analyzed in his books, The Eastern Front, 1941-1945 (1985), and Hitler's Army (1991). Bartov's new book, Genocide, The Holocaust and Israel-Palestine: First-Person History in Times of Crisis, has just come out. He is the Samuel Pisar Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University.

Esmat Elhalaby is an Assistant Professor of Transnational History at the University of Toronto. Parting Gifts of Empire, his book on Palestine, India, and the intellectual history of decolonization, is forthcoming next year from the University of California Press. Elhalaby has held postdoctoral fellowships at UC Davis and NYU Abu Dhabi.

This event is open to all members of the University of Toronto community. (Please bring your T-cards.)

Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/under-the-rubble-history-and-memory-in-israe...

Sponsors

Hearing Palestine, Department of Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations, Department for the Study of Religion, Department of Historical Studies (UTM)