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?

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Koffler Arts

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?

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.

Presented by:

Koffler Centre of the Arts

A Kultura Collective Member

Start Date: August 27, 2023

2:00 PM

Downtown Toronto

Koffler Gallery
180 Shaw St, Toronto

Free

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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?

Category

Presented by:

Koffler Centre of the Arts

A Kultura Collective Member