‘Photography, Post-Witnessing and the Holocaust’ With Cultural Theorist Andrea Liss

February 14, 2008

Event:The Woodbridge Campus of Northern Virginia Community College will present a discussion with Andrea Liss, contemporary art historian and cultural theorist at California State University San Marcos. Liss, author of “Trespassing through Shadows: Memory, Photography and the Holocaust,” will discuss documentary photography as it served to witness and memorialize the holocaust. The presentation is part of the NOVA photography program’s documentary project, “The New Northern Virginia.”

Date: March 4
Time: 7 p.m.
Place: Woodbridge Campus Theater, Northern Virginia Community College, 15200 Neabsco Mills Road, Woodbridge
Cost: Free and open to the public

Contact: Gail Rebhan at 703-878-5776

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Northern Virginia Community College is the largest institution of higher education in the Commonwealth of Virginia and one of America's largest community colleges. NOVA enrolls more than 60,000 students at its six campuses in Alexandria, Annandale, Loudoun, Manassas, Springfield and Woodbridge, and through the Extended Learning Institute. For more information about NOVA and its programs or services, call 703-323-3000 or visit the College's Web site, www.nvcc.edu.