Wrapping Up at University of Ghent

On Monday Oct. 27 and Tuesday Oct. 28 Russell Kilbourn presented two more talks, both at the University of Ghent in Belgium. The first, ‘The Representation of History in Four Holocaust films: Night and Fog (1956), Schindler’s List (1993), Son of Saul (2015), and The Zone of Interest (2023)’, was delivered to an audience of faculty and students in the History department, and was part of the yearly lecture series sponsored by the interdisciplinary research forum ‘TAPAS/Thinking About the PASt’. The second, ‘Immanent Frames: from Non-Human to Posthuman(ist) Memory in Contemporary Film Narrative’, presented under the auspices of the Cultural Memory Studies Initiative, was part of their longstanding lecture series, which has featured a wide range of distinguished scholars, including Geoffrey Hartman, Roger Luckhurst, Ann Rigney, Michael Rothberg, Lyndsey Stonebridge, Sue Vice, and Anne Whitehead.