Emma SzH
PhD Work
PhD work
Selfies at Auschwitz
My thesis offers a robust response to the problem posed by the recent phenomenon of the ‘Auschwitz Selfie’, whilst examining the difficulties of representing the Shoah in the Network Age. In its broadest sense my work encompasses themes of memory, aesthetics, objectification, testimony and selfhood; but it is strictly grounded in a concern for understanding the ontology of the act, the space, and this act in this space.
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PhD
School
School of Arts & Humanities
Programme
Critical & Historical Studies–
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My thesis offers a robust response to the problem posed by the recent phenomenon of the ‘Auschwitz Selfie’, whilst examining the difficulties of representing the Shoah in the Network Age. In its broadest sense my work encompasses themes of memory, aesthetics, objectification, testimony and selfhood; but it is strictly grounded in a concern for understanding the ontology of the act, the space, and this act in this space.
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Degrees
- BA Theology and Religious Studies, University of Bristol, 2012; MPhil Gender Studies, University of Cambridge, 2016
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Publications
- eds. D'Costa, G. and Harris, E. The Second Vatican Council: Celebrating its Achievements and the Future. Bloomsbury: 2014.; Harris, E., Bisset, V., Weller, P. Violent Extremism: Naming, Framing and Challenging. Dialogue Society: 2015.; ’What Would Socrates Do? Self Examination, Civic Engagement, and the Politics of Philosophy’ in Journal of Dialgue Studies, 2015, 3:2, pp. 113-115.; 'YOLOCAUST Project: Shahak Shapira, Berlin 2017' in Journal of Arts Writing, 2017, 3:1-2, pp. 149-154.; 'Selfies Plural in Space and Time' in PROVA, 2018, 4.