Holocaust Testimony, Evil, and Suffering
Dr. Jennifer L. Geddes is associate professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia. Her scholarship focuses on issues of ethics, evil, the Holocaust, and suffering. She is the author of Kafka’s Ethics of Interpretation: Between Tyranny and Despair (2016), the co-editor with John K. Roth and Jules Simon of The Double Binds of Ethics after the Holocaust: Salvaging the Fragments (2009), and the editor of Evil after Postmodernism: Histories, Narratives, Ethics (2001). Currently, she is working on a book titled The Rhetorics of Evil. Dr. Geddes was a Mandel Center fellow in 2006.
In her lecture, Dr. Geddes will examine the role of Holocaust testimonies in the study of evil and suffering. She will discuss the ways in which Holocaust testimonies engage us in the task of remembrance, while also stirring us to think more deeply about the evil and suffering in our world today.
The Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Annual Lecture honors excellence in research on the Holocaust and fosters dissemination of important, new Holocaust scholarship. Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff of Baltimore, Maryland, were active philanthropists in the United States and abroad, focusing especially on Jewish learning and scholarship, music, the arts, and humanitarian causes. Their children, Eleanor Katz and Harvey M. Meyerhoff, member and Chairman Emeritus, United States Holocaust Memorial Council, have endowed this lecture.
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