Image: 'Work sets you free', the gate at Auschwitz, Kvinnonet
From Auschwitz to Ground Zero: dealing with heritage that hurts is a new weekend-long course being offered by the Institute of Continuing Education at the University of Cambridge. The course examines how and why sites wounded by violent events have been remembered - or not. It will also explore why historic sites and monuments are specifically targeted for destruction. For more information and booking details, see here.
Using the Killing Fields of Cambodia, the Oklahoma City National Memorial, Ground Zero, Auschwitz and the Soviet Gulags among others as case-studies, we will reflect on how these 'dark tourism' sites are 'produced' and 'consumed'. We will ask: why tourists visit, what they experience while they are there and what messages they walk away with.
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