Contested Memories: Antifascism, Jews and the Holocaust

Roundtable Discussion

October 19, 2023 5:30 PM –
October 19, 2023 7:00 PM

The first event of the series “The Budapest Jewish Studies Colloquium”, organized by the CEU-Democracy Institute, the CEU Jewish Studies Program, and the Tom Lantos Institute.

Type Events

Genre roundtable discussion

Related exhibition(s)

Commissioned Memory Auschwitz 1945–1989 Commissioned Memory

Related event(s)

Commissioned Memory – Opening Event Curatorial Guided Tour in Hungarian Curatorial Guided Tour in English Contested Memories: Antifascism, Jews and the Holocaust Curatorial Guided Tour in Hungarian Forgotten Dead: The Memory of the Roma Holocaust Curatorial Guided Tour in Hungarian Commissioned Memory – Finissage

Summary

The first event of the series “The Budapest Jewish Studies Colloquium”, organized by the CEU-Democracy Institute, the CEU Jewish Studies Program, and the Tom Lantos Institute.

This roundtable discussion explores the various ways the Holocaust was represented in Cold War Central Europe, considering major examples of official memory politics, exhibition histories, fine arts, and literature in the 1960s. It considers the agency of state actors, the Jewish community, as well as individuals, especially artists and writers, paying special attention to the eminent role played by the antifascist historical narrative.
OSA Archivum’s current exhibition offers a starting point for the discussion. Titled “Commissioned Memory. Hungarian Exhibitions in Auschwitz, 1960/1965,” it introduces a monumental fine arts collection commissioned for the 1965 Hungarian exhibition in Auschwitz, as well as an exceptional work from 1960 (‘Vampire Hitler,’ based on Simon Wiesenthal’s 1946 drawing), created for the same venue.

Speakers: Tímea Jablonczay, Ágnes Katalin Kelemen, Dániel Véri, Máté Zombory.
Moderated by Eszter Susán.

Registration required by October 18: https://forms.office.com/e/efJ2YKBtsR