Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern Regional Institute: Invited Speaker

"In the afternoon, Dr. Kathryn Agnes Huether (Vanderbilt University) turned the fellows’ attention to sonic mediation, exploring the myriad ways that sound and music mediate testimony. Faculty learned how to assess aesthetic layers of testimony with specific emphasis on soundscapes and sound icons, reflecting on the ways in which sound can dramatically alter  meaning and subsequent understanding in the reception of Holocaust testimony."

Friday, January 26 @ 12:20-1:10 PM in Blair School of Music Turner Recital Hall Holocaust Remembrance Day Recital

Program music was curated with guidance from Professor of Voice, Amy Jarman. Program musicological notes written by Blair students with research and writing guidance from Dr. Huether.

A Virtual Lecture given by Dr. Huether on Monday,March 25, 2024, invited and sponsored by Hofstra University.

Sound and contemporary Holocaust memory was the focus of my dissertation, which was the germination for my now book project. My work is intimately wrapped up in mass consumerism and considers what I call the “normalization” of Holocaust memory, or the processes by which this horrible history has become a common and accepted topic for film and TV. For a long time I didn’t know what to make of Jojo Rabbit, always treading a line between loving it or despising it, but this essay embraces that tension and challenges us to consider our own individual roles in the success of the media we consume. My favorite line is my closing sentence, “Jojo Rabbit challenges us all to consider our daily passivity, an act intimately wrapped up with our own part in mass consumerism, and asks if we, too, would cheer for fascism if it was accompanied by the right tune.” – Kathryn Huether

April 17, 2023

On this Yom Hashoah, I say to you all, “Tzom Mo’il,” may this remembrance teach us.”

March 31, 2023

Bowdoin student . Nikki Harris, cover’s Dr. Huether’s lecture on her book project :Sounding Trauma, Mediating Memory: Holocaust Economy and the Politics of Sound.

March 3, 2023

With the support of Bowdoin Hillel, the Departments of Music, German, Dance, and Religion, and Africana Studies, Dr. K was able to bring Nissim Black to Bowdoin! See the Bowdoin Orient’s write up.

June 22, 2022

University of Minnesota’s Alumni News: Alumni News: Kathryn Huether Appointed as Bowdoin College’s 2022-2023 Visiting Assistant Professor of Musicology.