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Emma SzH

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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  • Emma SzH
  • PhD

    School

    School of Arts & Humanities

    Programme

    Critical & Historical Studies–

  • 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.

  • Degrees

  • BA Theology and Religious Studies, University of Bristol, 2012; MPhil Gender Studies, University of Cambridge, 2016
  • 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.