The Rest Is Silence: Panel-Led Workshop 2

texture of the memorial to the murdered jews of europe

This workshop will focus on the role of silence in commemoration. The panellists are uniquely well-placed to discuss the practice, meaning and impact of silence, and the discussion will be chaired by a practitioner of acoustic, site-specific composition.

  • Dr Adrian Gregory (Associate Professor of History, University of Oxford)
  • Professor Mahinda Deegalle (Professor of Religions, Philosophies and Ethics, Bath Spa University)
  • Dr Lydia Wilson (CRIC Research Fellow; Visiting Fellow at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at the Graduate Center, City University New York)
  • John Dunston (Tutor, Farmington Institute, Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford)

Chair: Professor Paul Whitty (Professor in Composition, Oxford Brookes University)

This event is invitation only.

 

Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation

Contact name: Catherine Gilbert
Contact email: catherine.gilbert@ell.ox.ac.uk