CLIC and Kazerne Dossin invite you for a lecture by Andrea Pető (Central European University, Vienna) about new forms of Holocaust distortions and what to do about them. This event will take place on 27 November, from 14:00-15:30, at Kazerne Dossin (Auditorium Natan Ramet Goswin De Stassartstraat 153, 2800 Mechelen).
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Andrea Pető is Professor of Gender Studies at Central European University, Vienna, and Doctor of Science of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses on gender, politics, and the Holocaust, highlighting underexplored topics such as sexual violence and women as perpetrators during wartime. She is the author of Forgotten Massacre: Budapest 1944 (2021) and The Women of the Arrow Cross Party (2020), co-editor of influential works on gender and Holocaust studies, and hosts a multilingual podcast on WWII history and memory.
How can we protect the truth about the Holocaust in an age when even history is being distorted? The memory of the Holocaust is a pillar of the post-World War Two global world order. As such, it has been promoted by various international organizations and educational programs. Antiliberal forces mobilizing against this understanding are successfully trying to build up an institutional system and language of antiliberal Holocaust Studies.
Drawing on the examples of the Chana Szenes statues, the Budapest ghetto memorial, and the Shoah Bunker, this lecture introduces three types of Holocaust distortion: the antiliberal transformative distortion, the “profit-driven” distortion and the practice of “performative contradiction”.
