Wulf Kansteiner | Nationalist Resurgence, Anti-Colonial Activism, and the Future of Holocaust Memory

The memory landscape of Western democracies is changing rapidly in response to political, military, generational, and technological developments. Should Holocaust memory remain a key moral anchoring point in a digital culture dominated by nationalist and postcolonial interpretations of past and present? Can the ways in which we remember the Holocaust be helpful for the future?
Wulf Kansteiner is Professor of Memory Studies and Contemporary History at Aarhus University in Denmark. He previously taught at the University of Tennessee, Kent State University, and Binghamton University. He is an expert on the role of visual media in the formation of cultural memory as well as genocide history, memory and historiography. Kansteiner is co-founder and co-editor of the Sage journal Memory Studies and is president of the Memory Studies Association (MSA).
Part of the Kennedy Center's winter 2024 lecture series, "Authoritarianism and Its Discontents."