The Language of Memorial Architecture: Between Berlin and New York

The Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program at Case Western Reserve University Siegal College-Judaic Studies Beachwood, Ohio Wednesday, October 21 2015 James E. Young, Director, Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst In this illustrated presentation, James Young traces the "arc of memorial vernacular" beginning with Henri Pingusson’s “Memorial to the Deportees of France” (1962) and Maya Lin’s “Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial” (1982). These early forms inspire and underpin newer works such as Berlin’s, Denkmal to the Murdered Jews of Europe, and Reflecting Absence, the Memorial at Ground Zero in New York.