Art, Human Rights, and Memory Activism: Poetry, Music, and Testimony from the Fortunoff Archive

Fortunoff Video Archive Artist-in-Residence Grzegorz Kwiatkowski will present his interdisciplinary “memory art project” at Harvard Law School, bringing together poetry, music, testimony, and human rights advocacy.

He will read from his collection of Fortunoff Poems, a poetry project based on Holocaust survivor testimonies from the Fortunoff Video Archive, translated into English by Peter Constantine. He will also reflect on how art can engage memory, resist dehumanization, and sustain democratic pluralism without turning suffering into spectacle.

Professor Martha Minow, the 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard Law School, will introduce the event, with Abadir M. Ibrahim serving as moderator.

Tuesday, September 15 | 12:30–1:45 p.m.
Harvard Law School
Lunch will be served.
The event will also be available online via Zoom.

Visit this link for registration information and additional details.

The event is co-sponsored by Harvard Law School’s Human Rights Program and Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law.