# Event Details - **Event Name**: Brown Bag talk: Prof. David Feldman on the Holocaust and Public Memory from the 1940s to the Present - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 08 Oct, 2026 at 01:00 pm (+11:00) - **Event Description**: Prof. David Feldman (Birkbeck, University of London/The University of Melbourne), The Holocaust and Public Memory from the 1940s to the Present Day History Brown Bag Seminar Today the Holocaust has become an inescapable part of public memory in many countries and Auschwitz takes a central place when we remember the mass murder of Jews in Europe under the Third Reich. It was not always so. From the 1940s to the mid-1960s it was the Warsaw Ghetto uprising which provided the focus for memorialization and it was only at the end of the twentieth century that Holocaust memorialization, across nations, became a state sponsored project. One constant over these decades, however, is that memorialization has been infused with political meanings. With a focus on the United Kingdom but drawing on a transnational history, this paper examines the changing and contested meanings of the mass murder of Europe’s Jews in public memory from the Second World War to the Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October 2023 and Israel’s war on Gaza. David Feldman is Professor of History in Antisemitism, University of Melbourne and also Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London where he is Co-Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism. His most recent book, coedited with Marc Volovici, is Antisemitism, Islamophobia and the Politics of Definition (Palgrave, 2023). He is co-author of Facing Antisemitism: the struggle for safety and solidarity, a report on antisemitism in Britain today (Runnymede Trust, January 2025). His writing has appeared in The Guardian, the Financial Times, Haaretz, the New Statesman, The Independent and the Political Quarterly. Image: Former United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron with Holocaust Survivors at Downing Street. Flickr, Number 10, Creative Commons. Enquiries: andonis.piperoglou@unimelb.edu.au - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/melbourne/brown-bag-talk-prof-david-feldman-on-the-holocaust-and-public-memory-from-the-1940s-to-the-present/200030759823059 - **Event Categories**: art, workshops, fine-arts, literary-art - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 12 ## Ticket Details ## Event venue details - **city**: Melbourne - **state**: VI - **country**: Australia - **location**: Digital Lab 213, Arts West, University of Melbourne - **lat**: -37.797880598296 - **long**: 144.95943127765 - **full address**: Digital Lab 213, Arts West, University of Melbourne, Library-University of Melbourne, Medical Rd, Parkville VIC 3052, Australia, Melbourne ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Brown Bag talk: Prof. David Feldman on the Holocaust and Public Memory from the 1940s to the Present - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events2/banners/785f135ce95fd18585993c9f2d76f7558c615d59f84be4ed99c918b857fca111-rimg-w670-h335-dc181818-gmir?v=1790867639 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Brown Bag talk: Prof. David Feldman on the Holocaust and Public Memory from the 1940s to the Present being held? - **A:** Brown Bag talk: Prof. David Feldman on the Holocaust and Public Memory from the 1940s to the Present takes place on Thu, 08 Oct, 2026 at 01:00 pm to Thu, 08 Oct, 2026 at 01:00 pm at Digital Lab 213, Arts West, University of Melbourne, Library-University of Melbourne, Medical Rd, Parkville VIC 3052, Australia, Melbourne. - **Q**: Who is organizing Brown Bag talk: Prof. David Feldman on the Holocaust and Public Memory from the 1940s to the Present? - **A:** Brown Bag talk: Prof. David Feldman on the Holocaust and Public Memory from the 1940s to the Present is organized by Friends of History at Melbourne. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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