The Levitt Justice Lab S2026: Learning from Atrocity

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Description The Levitt Center invites students to apply to this Spring ‘26 Justice Lab “Learning from Atrocity”. The Lab is a semester-long opportunity where students take a set of three to four parallel courses that combine mutually reinforcing academic and experiential learning around the broad theme of justice. All the instructors in the Lab work together to coordinate syllabi and assignments and to provide students in the Lab with an integrated, interdisciplinary understanding of the topic. For this Justice Lab, Profs. Heidi Ravven, Janina Selzer and Jaime Kucinskas will teach three connected courses in which students will study responses to atrocity through community, memory and creativity. Together, these courses will chart a continuum from past to future: from the intimate and cultural representations of atrocity, to the collective processes of memorialization, and finally to the imagination of what new forms of community and possibility can emerge. Students will develop tools to critically engage with histories of violence, understand the social and cultural mechanisms of memory and cultivate the creative practices necessary to envision and build better futures. Professor R...