James E. Young, The Arc of Memorial Vernacular: Between Berlin’s Denkmal and New York’s 9/11 Memorial

James E. Young is Distinguished University Professor of English and Judaic Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where he directs the Institute for Holocause, Genocide and Memory Studies. In this slide-lecture, Professor Young will trace what he calls “the memorial’s arc” from Maya Lin’s Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial, to German Holocaust memorials, to the National September 11 Memorial in New York City. Professor Young served on the design juries for both Berlin’s Memorial for Europe’s Murdered Jews and for the 9/11 Memorial competition and will discuss these processes from his perspective as a juror.  

Co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute. Read more at the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures.