This online roundtable explores how Holocaust literature has shaped, and been shaped by in return, other histories of extreme violence. The speakers will discuss literature from Rwanda, Australia, and Yugoslavia, and highlight the complex and nuanced ways it engages with the Holocaust and Holocaust literature.

This roundtable is part of an ongoing series featuring original research from the forthcoming Cambridge History of Holocaust Literature. For more information, you can visit the website Rethinking Holocaust Literature: Contexts, Canons, and Circulations.

Speakers: Zoë Norridge Reader in African and Comparative Literature and Visual Cultures, Kings College London; Kirril Shields Director of Education and Regional Policy, Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility; Stijn Vervaet Associate Professor in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian and Balkan Studies, University of Oslo. Chaired by Stuart Taberner – Professor of German, University of Leeds.