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SUMMARY:"The Trace of the War Years":  Gypsiology, Testimony, and the Romani Holocaust
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 How did survivors of the Holocaust recount their 
 experiences of persecution and suffering in 
 the immediate aftermath of the event? Recent 
 scholarship has focused on their testimony 
 as an autobiographical and individualistic struggle 
 to narrate traumatic experience in the 
 face of a postwar silencing. In her lecture, 
 Dr. Hegburg will examine an alternate history 
 recorded in the contemporaneous accounts of 
 Gypsiologists-folklorists, philologists, and 
 ethnographers of Roma-as they witnessed the 
 decimation of the communities they studied. In 
 their writings, as well as in the modes of 
 telling and retelling practiced by surviving 
 Roma to the present day, traces of a collective 
 and transnational testimonial genre emerge 
 that challenge our conventional understandings 
 of Holocaust testimony.\n
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 Dr. Krista Hegburg 
 is a Program Officer in the Jack, Joseph 
 and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust 
 Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial 
 Museum. Her research focuses on reparations 
 politics and the Romani Holocaust in the 
 Czech Republic. She has taught in the Department 
 of Anthropology at Rutgers, The State University 
 of New Jersey, and at the University 
 of Lower Silesia in Wroclaw, Poland, where she 
 was also a co-founder of the International 
 Institute for the Study of Culture and Education.\n
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 Light 
 refreshments will be served.\n
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 Sponsored by: Campus Outreach Lecture Program 
 of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Jack, 
 Joseph\n
  and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced 
 Holocaust Studies, supported by the generosity 
 of the \n
 Jerome A. Yavitz Charitable 
 Foundation, Inc. and Arlyn S. and Stephen H. 
 Cypen.\n
 MSU Sponsors: MSU Libraries, Digital 
 Humanities in the College of Arts and Letters, 
 Global Studies in the Arts and Humanities, 
 Museum Studies Program, Jewish Studies Program, 
 Center for European, Russian and Eurasian 
 Studies, Peace & Justice Studies\n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: Administration\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://www.lib.msu.edu\n
 Contact name: Deborah Margolis\n
 Contact phone: 517-884-0892\n
 Contact email: deborahm@msu.edu\n
LOCATION:Main Library North Conference Room, W449
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