Berel Lang
Berel Lang, B.A. Yale University and Ph.D. Columbia University, is Visiting Professor of Philosophy and Letters, Wesleyan University. Previously, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities, University of Colorado, SUNY at Albany, Trinity College. Recent Fellowships at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Lady Davis Fellowship at the Hebrew University. Lang's books include Act and Idea in the Nazi Genocide (recently appeared in Hebrew and Polish translation); Heidegger's Silence; The Future of the Holocaust; Holocaust Representation: Art within the Limits of History and Ethics; and Post-Holocaust: Interpretation, Misinterpretation, and the Claims of History.
Panel speaker: Monday, April 30 at 10 a.m.
"Philosophers Witnessing: '...And only I have survived to tell you'"A discussion of the question of the role of the witness—what witness testimony can and cannot do. Addressing also the question of how philosophy as a discipline is capable of serving as witness, and what it has done or failed to do in this role in relation to the occurrence of genocide.
