Horizons of Knowledge Lecture - A Holocaust Object and the Story of Its Production

The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Polish Studies Center, Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program, and the Russian and East European Institute present Horizons of Knowledge Lecture by Bożena Shallcross, from the University of Chicago - "A Holocaust Object and the Story of Its Production"

Monday, April 11, 2011
4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
Ballantine Hall 013
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

This lecture discusses one of the most notorious cases of the Nazi practice of commodification and
recycling of the body: utilizing human fat to manufacture soap. The narrative of its actual making
complements the story of its cultural production, in particular, its literary representation.

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Bożena Shallcross works in the area of 20th century Polish literature and the visual arts; her other interdisciplinary research interests include the “thing” discourse, as well as the interrelationship between questions of identity and the home. Before teaching at the University of Chicago she was a member faculty at Indiana University, where she directed the Polish Studies Center. Professor Shallcross is the author or editor of ten books, including The Holocaust Object in Polish and Polish-Jewish Culture, recently released by Indiana University Press. Among her teaching interests are theories of vision, pictorial and literary representation of objects, single book/author courses (Adam Mickiewicz’s Pan Tadeusz, Czesław Miłosz), the Holocaust in literature, and (post)modernist culture.

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