Speaker: Dr. Anne Kelly Knowles, Middlebury College
Title: “Geographies of the Holocaust”
Abstract: The Holocaust was a profoundly geographical event that destroyed communities, displaced millions of people, and created new kinds of places of concentrated imprisonment, exploitation, and murder. Yet few scholars have examined the Holocaust from a geographical perspective. This lecture presents prototype studies by an international team of geographers and Holocaust scholars who are applying GIS and geovisualization techniques to the many scales of the Holocaust, from the continental spread of Nazi concentration camps to Auschwitz to the daily experiences of Jews confined in the Budapest ghetto. Knowles will also discuss the challenges this interdisciplinary project has posed for both database design and the writing of history. NYT article: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/27/arts/geographic-information-systems-help-scholars-see-history.html?pagewanted=all
Location: CGIS South building (1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge), Room S050
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