“Ethics of Trauma, Memory, and Public Art” with Dr. Karen Frostig, Professor and Founding Director, Locker of Memory memorial project

On Cambodia’s National Day of Remembrance, Professor Karen Frostig will discuss the trauma of memory, and the history of memorial culture, following genocide in three cities Cambodia, Vienna and Riga. Slide presentations will compare and contrast how these three countries have negotiated national histories of genocide. Special focus will be on the Locker of Memory Memorial to the victims of the Jungfernhof concentration camp, an endangered site, currently under development.
Dr. Karen Frostig, Professor and Founding Director, Locker of Memory memorial project

Prof. Karen Frostig, Ph.D., is the Director of the Locker of Memory memorial project at the Jungfernhof concentration camp in Riga, which she established in 2019. Developed as a multi-media, transnational project dealing with forgotten memory, the project combines history with art, science and technology. Karen is Professor of Art at Lesley University, a Resident Scholar at Brandeis University, and an international public memory artist, cultural historian, writer, and director of The Vienna Project (2013-2014). Areas of scholarship include traumatic memory, Holocaust studies, feminist theory, civic engagement, and community activism. Karen is the granddaughter of two victims deported to the camp, and holds dual citizenship in the United States and the Republic of Austria. https://www.lockerofmemory.com