Prof. Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi is a sociologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She holds a position of faculty fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University. Her major academic interest revolves around issues of collective memory and commemoration, and specifically the ways in which societies cope with their difficult pasts and shameful histories.
In this HUJI Talk, Prof. Seroussi outlines how societies deal with these difficult times and how collective memory becomes the glue that shapes our present and future.
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