2013 - “Why Do We Remember? On Ambiguities of Cosmopolitan Memory in Contemporary Central Europe”

Thursday, October 17, 2013
Eck Visitors' Center Auditorium

Michael Meng, associate professor of modern German history at Clemson University, received the 2013 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies for his book Shattered Spaces: Encountering Jewish Ruins in Postwar Germany and Poland, published by Harvard University Press. He delivered his prize lecture, “Why Do We Remember? On Ambiguities of Cosmopolitan Memory in Contemporary Central Europe,” when accepting the award. Meng specializes in German, Jewish, Polish, urban, and intellectual history.

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