The Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Studies announces a free lecture and slide presentation by Dora Apel, professor of art and art history at Wayne State University, titled "Memory Effects: The Holocaust and the Art of Secondary Witnessing."
Based on her book of the same title, Apel analyzes the ways in which artists born after the Holocaust, whom she calls secondary witnesses, represent a history they did not experience first hand. She believes that contemporary artists confront these atrocities in order to bear witness, not to the Holocaust directly, but to its memory effects and to the implications of those effects for the present and future.

Apel has been a full-time faculty member at Wayne State since 1999 and serves as the W. Hawkins Ferry Chair in Modern and Contemporary Art History. She received a PhD in the history of art from the University of Pittsburgh. In addition, Apel has been the volume editor for several exhibition catalogs at Cranbrook Art Museum, including, "Three Decades of Contemporary Art: The Dr. John and Rose M. Shuey Collection", "Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle" and "Weird Science."

The program is scheduled for Thursday, April 15, at 3 p.m., in 2339 Faculty/Administration Building, 656 W. Kirby, on the Wayne State University campus. The lecture is open to the public. For further information or reservations, call (313) 577-2679 by Wednesday, April 14.