Michael Rothberg Public Lecture: Webinar

Michael Rothberg is a leading scholar of Memory Studies who has researched and published on the Holocaust, Colonialism, and Racism in Europe, Africa, and the US.  His influential comparative analysis of “multi-directional memory” has guided a generation of scholars toward comparisons across traumatic histories in order to gain deeper insight and political purchase on the present.  His new work, which will inform his talk for Wake Forest, is about how the present is inescapably implicated in the past, and he outlines a theory of the “implicated subject” for an ethics of responsibility for legacies of oppression.  Professor Rothberg’s talk for Wake Forest will help us think about our own university community’s implication in past histories of enslavement and segregation.  To register for the webinar, click here.