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Thursday, May 25
12:15 - 1:30pm
in
Osher Classroom #3/4
for the next talk in the
Pfaudler Lecture Series:
The Life and Legacy of Holocaust Survivor and Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel
by Michael Dubkowski, professor of religious studies
at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and author of several books on religion and violence,
and anti-Semitism
In 1
959, Elie Wiesel published Night, his literary recreation of surviving in Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This talk will explore Wiesel's many legacies, particularly the relationship between Holocaust survival, the imperative of witnessing and memory, moral authority and political activism. Elie Wiesel's voice and his many writings have repeatedly called to us to receive and attend to the voice of the victim, the powerless. The act of bearing witness is a sacred mission, he believed, a responsibility and command-the means of paying tribute to the suffering of the past and reestablishing a connection to life and a moral future.
You don't sign up for Pfaudler lectures; however, according to fire code, the room capacity is 115 people. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.
Elise de Papp,
Pfaudler Lecture Series Chair
and
Osher Staff
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