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SUMMARY:After Atrocity
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DESCRIPTION:How does a society move forward after atrocity? After war? Geno
	cide? Linda\nKinstler (a journalist for The Economist and a scholar at Har
	vard University)\nstudies ‘oblivion’\, a collective process of forgiveness
	 and forgetting. A\nprocess of pardoning. Not to let people off the hook\,
	 but rather to acknowledge\ntheir guilt in a meaningful way. Because: ‘a p
	ardon confirms the crime.’\n\nHow have acts of oblivion helped humankind m
	ove on since Roman times? What\, for\ninstance\, was ‘forgotten’ in post-N
	azi Germany? And is oblivion still possible\nin a digital age in which eve
	rything is documented?\n\nLinda Kinstler made her debut in 2023 with her b
	ook Come to This Court and Cry\,\nabout the Nazi trials. She has also publ
	ished in\, among others\, The Economist\,\nThe New York Times\, and The Gu
	ardian.
URL:https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/after-atrocity
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CATEGORIES:amsterdam-centrum,books,idee & verbeelding,leidseplein,politiek 
	& democratie
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p><strong>How does a society move forward aft
	er atrocity? After war? Genocide? Linda Kinstler (a journalist for <em>The
	 Economist</em> and a scholar at Harvard University) studies ‘oblivion’, a
	 collective process of forgiveness and forgetting. A process of pardoning.
	 Not to let people off the hook, but rather to acknowledge their guilt in 
	a meaningful way. Because: ‘a pardon confirms the crime.’</strong></p> <p>
	How have acts of oblivion helped humankind move on since Roman times? What
	, for instance, was ‘forgotten’ in post-Nazi Germany? And is oblivion stil
	l possible in a digital age in which everything is documented?</p> <p>Lind
	a Kinstler made her debut in 2023 with her book <em>Come to This Court and
	 Cry</em>, about the Nazi trials. She has also published in, among others,
	 <em>The Economist</em>, <em>The New York Times</em>, and <em>The Guardian
	</em>.</p>
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