Date: 18 September 2024 - 19 September 2024, 10:00AM - 6:00PM GMT | Location: Bedford Room, G37, Ground Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London, UK | Deadline: 22 March 2024
Bestselling novels such as Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything is Illuminated (2002, film adaptation 2005), Jonathan Littell’s Les Bienveillantes (2006, The Kindly Ones, 2009) and Katja Petrowskaja’s Vielleicht Esther (2014, Maybe Esther, 2018) have increased public and scholarly discussion of Holocaust mass shootings and their remembrance, yet remain notable exceptions to an overall scarcity of representations of these atrocities. For the most part, literary, cinematic and artistic depictions of mass shootings have been belated, schematic and often at the margins of works dealing with other themes or with other facets of the Holocaust. While specific events, such as the Babi Jar massacre of September 1941, have found their place in memory and art, many more events are still being recovered for commemoration.