An Evening Lecture with Professor James. E. Young

The British Association for Holocaust Studies presents an evening lecture with Professor James E. Young – The Stages of Memory: Reflections on Memorialisation and Global Commemoration hosted by Hannah Wilson and Elizabeth Kendrick

This lecture was presented on Monday 21st September 2020. A recording of this event can be found below.

James E. Young is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of English and Judaic & Near Eastern Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he was Founding Director of the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies.

Professor Young has paved the way for debates surrounding Holocaust memorials, commemoration, and creative responses, with his ground-breaking publications The Texture of Memory (1993), At Memory’s Edge (2000) and The Stages of Memory (2016). In this slide-lecture, Professor Young will trace what he calls “the memorial’s arc” from Maya Lin’s Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial, to German Holocaust memorials, to the National September 11 Memorial in New York City. Professor Young served on the design juries for both Berlin’s Memorial for Europe’s Murdered Jews and for the 9/11 Memorial competition and will discuss these processes from his perspective as a juror.