Almost Home - The Return of Holocaust Survivors and Resisters to Postwar Vienna

Almost Home Education Programs

Holocaust Memory Through the Camera's Eye Barbie Zelizer
Thursday, February 27, 3:00 p.m.

Zelizer addresses the authenticity of documentary images-used in journalism, art, and other contexts-and the construction of collective memory. Zelizer is associate professor and dean of undergraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication. She is an award-winning author of several books on photography, journalism, memory, and the Holocaust. Her publications include: Visual Culture and the Holocaust; Remembering to Forget: Holocaust Memory Through the Camera's Eye; Covering the Body: The Kennedy Assassination, the Media, and the Shaping of Collective Memory, and Almost Midnight: Reforming the Late Night News. This event is cosponsored by The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, the College of Liberal Arts Scholarly Events Fund, and the Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota.

From Austrian Victims to European Victors: Viennese Jews at the Turn of the Millenium
Matti Bunzl
Thursday, March 13, 3:30 p.m.

Matti Bunzl is professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Bunzl's research areas include the transformations in German-Jewish culture and history, the cultural and literary fields of fin-de-siècle Vienna, and the anthropology of contemporary Austria and central Europe. This program is cosponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies and the Weisman Art Museum.

Picturing Home, Picturing Community: Public/Private Portraits
Panel Discussion with Artists Nancy Ann Coyne, Wing Young Huie, & Larry Sultan, Moderated by Diane Mullin
Saturday, April 5, 2:00 p.m., Reception follows program

This program offers a unique conversation between three artists whose work explores the private and public facets of home and community. You'll hear each artist speak about their own projects, followed by a panel discussion moderated by Weisman curator and scholar Diane Mullin. Coyne's installation project, Almost Home, on view at the Weisman through May 4, uses contemporary domestic portraiture, archival images, and oral histories of Austrian survivors of the Holocaust to represent the process of rebuilding home. Huie has investigated cross-cultural communities with several photographic projects, producing in-depth series locally (Lake Street USA) and nationally (his recent 9 Months in America). Sultan, in a photography career spanning more than 40 years, has looked carefully at place-oftentimes suburbia and domestic interiors-to represent family, culture, and home.


Related Events: Almost Home Education Programs Holocaust Memory Through the Camera's Eye Barbie Zelizer Thursday, February 27, 3:00 p.m. Zelizer addresses the authenticity of documentary images-used in journalism, art, and other contexts-and the construction of collective memory. Zelizer is associate professor and dean of undergraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication. She is an award-winning author of several books on photography, journalism, memory, and the Holocaust. Her publications include: Visual Culture and the Holocaust; Remembering to Forget: Holocaust Memory Through the Camera's Eye; Covering the Body: The Kennedy Assassination, the Media, and the Shaping of Collective Memory, and Almost Midnight: Reforming the Late Night News. This event is cosponsored by The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, the College of Liberal Arts Scholarly Events Fund, and the Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota. From Austrian Victims to European Victors: Viennese Jews at the Turn of the Millenium Matti Bunzl Thursday, March 13, 3:30 p.m. Matti Bunzl is professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Bunzl's research areas include the transformations in German-Jewish culture and history, the cultural and literary fields of fin-de-siècle Vienna, and the anthropology of contemporary Austria and central Europe. This program is cosponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies and the Weisman Art Museum. Picturing Home, Picturing Community: Public/Private Portraits Panel Discussion with Artists Nancy Ann Coyne, Wing Young Huie, & Larry Sultan, Moderated by Diane Mullin Saturday, April 5, 2:00 p.m., Reception follows program This program offers a unique conversation between three artists whose work explores the private and public facets of home and community. You'll hear each artist speak about their own projects, followed by a panel discussion moderated by Weisman curator and scholar Diane Mullin. Coyne's installation project, Almost Home, on view at the Weisman through May 4, uses contemporary domestic portraiture, archival images, and oral histories of Austrian survivors of the Holocaust to represent the process of rebuilding home. Huie has investigated cross-cultural communities with several photographic projects, producing in-depth series locally (Lake Street USA) and nationally (his recent 9 Months in America). Sultan, in a photography career spanning more than 40 years, has looked carefully at place-oftentimes suburbia and domestic interiors-to represent family, culture, and home.

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