Professor Ruth Mandel teaches in the Department of Anthropology, University College London.  She has been carrying out multi-sited research on German artist Gunter Demnig’s Stolperstein (‘stumbling stone’) Holocaust memorial project since 2017.

Professor Mandel has travelled with the artist in many countries, observing and participating in dedications and installations, and studying the improvised rituals that descendants and others create to accompany the dedications. Her research explores the range of narratives about local and national roles in WWII, and how acceptance or rejection of Stolpersteine sometimes reveal troubling understandings of history and memory. 

This talk presents insights from this research experience and findings.

 

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