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SUMMARY:Holocaust Memorial Day - Tales from Northwest African Vichy Camps:
  Educating Through Graphic Memoir - Professor Aomar Boum  (E&amp\;D Event)
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DESCRIPTION:Until recently little work has been published about the establ
 ishment\, administration and daily life in Vichy camps where thousands of 
 native and foreign prisoners were held captive and forced into labor in co
 lonial Vichy projects in north and west Africa.\n\nIn this talk\, I revisi
 t daily life in these camps through the archives and oral histories of Nor
 th African Muslims\, Black Africans\, Jewish refugees and Spanish Republic
 ans transferred between Camps in mainland France\, Algeria\, Morocco\, Mal
 i and Senegal.\n\nI rely on the medium of comics as tool to inform and edu
 cate. I argue for the use of graphic memoirs to re-construct the history o
 f Saharan Vichy camps and contend that in the larger context of an anthrop
 ology of genocide and the Holocaust\, graphic memoirs could be seen as ret
 roactive ethnographic accounts where witnessing takes place through seeing
 \, guided by the archive. I note that the use of images as a form of Holoc
 aust writing\, following the steps of Maus\, is a call to seeing and there
 fore remembering through witnessing the trauma of detainees of labor and i
 nternment Vichy camps in the Sahara between 1940 and 1945.\n\nBook your pl
 ace "here":https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/holocaust-memorial-day-tickets-2
 44327017687 
LOCATION:Zoom
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