Virtual Event: Holocaust Memorial Day Lecture with Professor Adam Sutcliffe

Holocaust memory has been closely associated with the increasing pedagogical emphasis, since the 1990s especially, on the idea of empathy. Fellow-feeling with the suffering wrought by the Nazi genocide helps us, we widely hope, to become more emotionally responsive and politically engaged citizens. This lecture will explore why empathy has become so central to Holocaust education, and why this has not always led to straightforwardly positive outcomes.

This is a hybrid event, taking place in person in at Selwyn College, but also live-streamed online as a Zoom webinar.

Adam Sutcliffe is Professor of European History at King’s College London. He has  written widely on early modern and modern Jewish history, intellectual history, and historiography. His most recent book is What Are Jews For? History, Peoplehood and  Purpose (Princeton University Press, 2020).