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Here, There and Everywhere. Synagogues, Memorials, and Place: Gallery Talk

What does it mean to host an exhibition about a synagogue that tells the story of a site that is somewhere else? How do we imagine a place that we may never see? This Gallery Talk will consider these questions and link such thoughts to where memorials and synagogues are physically located while asking if the memory of this specific traumatic event can be multi-placed in our memories; That is, is it possible to give imagination free-rein to relocate from the site where the history occurred and simultaneously be transported here, there or everywhere?

Dr. Shelley Hornstein is Senior Scholar and Professor Emerita of Architectural History & Urban Culture at York University. She explores memory and place in architectural and heritage sites, with themes on tourism, nationhood, and Jewish space and place. Her newest book is Architectural Tourism: Site-Seeing, Itineraries and Cultural Heritage (Lund Humphries, 2020). Others include Losing Site: Architecture, Memory and Place (Ashgate, 2011), Impossible Images: Contemporary Art after the Holocaust (NYU Press, 2003), Image and Remembrance: Representation and The Holocaust (Indiana University Press, 2002), and Capital Culture: A Reader on Modernist Legacies, State Institutions, and the Value(s) of Art (McGill-University Press, 2000). Currently, she is an ISGAP Research Fellow (The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy) and Consultant with AEPJ (European Association for the Preservation and Promotion of Jewish Culture and Heritage). She is the recipient of various international awards, fellowships, and guest professorships, and serves on advisory boards for several academic journals.

Dr. Shelley Hornstein of York University

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