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SUMMARY: 	"The Trace of the War Years": Gypsiology, Testimony, and the Romani Holocaust 
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 (Library Colloquia Series)\n
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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 and 
 Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, 
 supported by the generosity of the Jerome 
 A. Yavitz Charitable Foundation, Inc. and 
 Arlyn S. and Stephen H. Cypen.\n
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 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
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 Price: free and open to the public\n
 Sponsor: Administration\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://events.msu.edu/jewishstudies/\n
 Contact name: Jewish Studies Program\n
 Contact phone: (517) 432-3493\n
 Contact email: jewishst@msu.edu\n
LOCATION:Main Library North Conference Room, W449
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