LITERATURE + LECTURES

Holocaust Museum Houston and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston present The Stages of Holocaust Memory and the Contemporary Monument, Tuesday, October 26, 2010 at 6:30 PM. Location: Brown Auditorium Theater, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Caroline Wiess Law Building, 1001 Bissonnet, Houston, TX 77006.

Dr. James Young is professor of English and Judaic studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a former juror for the World Trade Center Site Memorial. In 1997. Young was appointed by the Berlin Senate to the five-member Findungskommission for Germany's national "Memorial to Europe's Murdered Jews," dedicated in 2005. He has also consulted with Argentina's government on its memorial to the desaparacidos, as well as with numerous city agencies on their memorials and museums.

Most recently, he was appointed by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation to the jury for the World Trade Center Site Memorial competition, now under construction.

In this free public lecture, Young will discuss the variety of ways in which the memory of the Holocaust is represented in memorials and use slides to illustrate numerous examples.

Advance registration is required. Visit http://www.hmh.org/RegisterEvent.aspx  to RSVP online. For more information, call 713-942-8000 or e-mail events@hmh.org.

Pictured: The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas),  a large and unusual Holocaust memorial unveiled in May 2005 in central Berlin.