“(Re)Gaining Consciousness of the Holocaust in Latin America” Lunch & Learn

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In this talk, Professor Marilyn Miller explores how the Holocaust resonates within Latin American experience and consciousness, past and present. Drawing from history, literature, memoir, and visual art dating from 1939 forward, the presentation demonstrates how the Holocaust has remained vitally present in diverse forms of representation and memory across the region. Moderated by Professor Golan Moskowitz.

Office of Academic Excellence & Opportunity’s Antisemitism Awareness Week invites the Tulane community to engage in learning, dialogue, and cultural connection centered on Jewish identity, history, and lived experience. Through performances, workshops, site visits, and community reflection, the week creates space for understanding, empathy, and shared responsibility. The 2026 theme, Southern Jewry, centers Southern and New Orleans Jewish history as a vital lens for understanding both historical and contemporary antisemitism. By highlighting Jewish life, culture, and contributions in the American South, the week invites participants to move beyond abstract definitions of antisemitism and toward grounded, place-based understanding rooted in lived experience. Across events, the theme emphasizes how cultural expression, historical memory, and community dialogue can deepen empathy, challenge bias, and strengthen collective responsibility.

Sponsored by Tulane’s Jewish Studies Department, the Stuart and Suzanne Grant Center for the American Jewish Experience, and the Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies.