Dear colleagues,
we would like to cordially invite you to the upcoming lecture
”Khatyn” as a Memorial Landscape: On the Spatial Legacies of World War II and Holocaust in Belarus
by Anika Walke (Carnegie Mellon University)
The lecture will take place on
Tuesday, 6 October 2026 | 14.30 – 16.00 EEST
at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Metsätalo, Unioninkatu 40, Room C216 (2nd floor)
Anika Walke holds the Inaugural Askwith Family Chair of Holocaust Studies at the Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. Prior to that, she served as Associate Professor of History and Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies at Washington University in St. Louis.
Walke draws on an interdisciplinary framework to study processes of remembering and commemoration, survival and resistance, and the role of space and place for historical experience and sense-making. Her book Pioneers and Partisans: An Oral History of Nazi Genocide in Belorussia (Oxford University Press, 2015) drew on oral history interviews, video testimony, archival documentation and various other sources to analyze how young Soviet Jews survived the Holocaust and made sense of it many decades later. The lecture draws on her current project on the long aftermath of the Holocaust and World War II in Belarus.
The lecture is organized by the Aleksanteri Institute and the Helsinki office of the Max Weber Netzwerk Osteuropa | Max Weber Network Eastern Europe (MWNO).
Best regards,
Maike Lehmann (MWNO) & Elena Bogdanova (Aleksanteri Institute)
Tapahtuma-ajat
- Alkaa:
- 6.10.2026 14:30
- Loppuu:
- 6.10.2026 16:00
- Tapahtumapaikka:
- Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Metsätalo, Room C216 (2nd floor)
- Osoite:
- Unioninkatu 40
- Postitoimipaikka:
- Helsinki