How do we remember the Holocaust in 2025? "The Media of Holocaust Memory" brings together two leading Holocaust scholars to discuss the role of "high tech" computer algorithms and AI and "low tech" monuments and material artifacts as technologies for memorializing. In conversation with each other and the audience, Laura Levitt and Todd Presner will discuss how the ethical possibilities and challenges Holocaust memory have and will continue to evolve in the twenty-first century.
Todd Presner is Chair of UCLA’s Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies and serves as Special Advisor to Vice Chancellor Roger Wakimoto in the Office for Research and Creative Activities (2018-present). His research focuses on European intellectual and cultural history, Holocaust studies, visual culture, and digital humanities. Presner’s newest book is with Princeton University Press: "Ethics of the Algorithm: Digital Humanities and Holocaust Memory" ( Fall 2024).
Laura Levitt is Professor of Religion, Jewish Studies, and Gender at Temple University and the author "The Objects that Remain" (2020), "American Jewish Loss after the Holocaust" (2007), and "Jews and Feminism: The Ambivalent Search for Home" (1997).
