James Madison Center for Civic Engagement: Democracy Matters

Dr. Oren Baruch Stier, Director of the Holocaust and Genocide Studies Program and Professor of Religious Studies in the Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs at Florida International University, joins us to discuss teaching and learning "difficult knowledge" and what the public history of the Holocaust and its memory can teach us about civic engagement and today's memorial landscape. "Public memory of the Holocaust and other difficult histories are a high-stakes competition over contested memories, says Dr. Stier, "Charlottesville reminds us that we can't disentangle 20th century racism." See the show notes with links mentioned in this episode at https://j.mu/news/civic/2022/02-25-democracy-matters-episode-100.shtml