Jan Plamper Lecture - speaker Professor Uffa Jensen
The lecture introduces the concept of the 'hate picture' by examining modern visual material. It focuses specifically on antisemitic imagery from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. However, such imagery has a much longer history, with examples dating back to medieval examples of Christian anti-Judaism. Can we describe this as a coherent tradition? The lecture will also explore the nature of imagery, its threatening character and emotional value, offering a fresh perspective on the concept of 'hate picture' (in extension and contrast to hate speech).
Prof. Dr. Uffa Jensen is a historian at the Centre for Research on Antisemitism at the Technische Universität in Berlin and its deputy director. His research interests are the history of antisemitism, of German Jewry, of psychoanalysis, of the history of emotions as well as visual history.
This promises to be a special evening, and we invite you to join us on 6 October at 6 pm for refreshments prior to the lecture.
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