{"id":2676,"date":"2014-11-14T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cagr-temp\/?p=2676"},"modified":"2023-08-04T14:26:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T21:26:53","slug":"a-mobile-holocaust-testimony-and-the-spatial-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cagr\/2014\/11\/14\/a-mobile-holocaust-testimony-and-the-spatial-turn\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mobile Holocaust: Testimony and the Spatial Turn – Simone Gigliotti"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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A Mobile Holocaust:
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November 14, 2014 at 4:00 PM Pacific Time<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

A public lecture by Simone Gigliotti (Senior Lecturer at Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand)<\/strong><\/span>
\nCenter Visiting Scholar, Fall 2014<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Organized by the\u00a0USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research<\/a><\/p>\n

How can analyses of Holocaust witnessing be approached in spatial terms? This talk draws primarily on the USC Shoah Foundation testimony of two Holocaust-era witnesses with postwar profiles of testimony giving – a slave laborer in a death brigade, and a ghetto internee who survived on false papers. It reports on an analytical effort to identify criteria for \u201cspatial experience\u201d in their testimonies, and then situates this coding effort in the spatial turn in Holocaust studies and the geo-humanities, arguing for a methodologically flexible approach to analyzing Holocaust video-testimony in spatial terms while recognizing the incomplete and performative, embodied act of this testimonial genre. Finally, it provides a short critique of the potential and challenges of analyzing video-testimony as untapped spatial metadata of the crime of genocide.<\/p>\n

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