January 27: International Holocaust Remembrance Day Program

Clementi will speak at FMU’s Holocaust remembrance program

FLORENCE – Francis Marion University will observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day with a special program on Tuesday, Jan. 27 in Cauthen Educational Media Center’s Lowrimore Auditorium on the FMU campus at 4 p.m.

The presenter for the FMU observance will be Dr. Federica Clementi, University of South Carolina associate professor of Jewish Studies and the Peter and Bonnie McCausland Fellow of English Language and Literature. Clementi is nationally known researcher and writer on the Holocaust. She is the author of Holocaust Mothers and Daughters: Family, History, and Trauma;and her article “Nightbirds, Nightmares and the Mothers’ Smile: Art and Psychoanalysis in Sarah Kofman’s Life-Writing” won the Modern Language Association’s Florence Howe Award for Feminist Scholarship.  

Clementi teaches undergraduate and graduate courses about the Holocaust, Jewish literature and Jewish American culture at USC.

The International Holocaust Remembrance Day was created by the United Nations General Assembly in November 2005. The selected date commemorates the liberation ofAuschwitz-Birkenau on Jan. 27, 1945. Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest of the Nazi death camp.

The observance is free and open to the public.

For more information on the event, contact Dr. Daphne Carter-McCants, assistant dean of students, at rcarter@fmarion.edu or (843) 661-1188.