The Alfred Landecker Holocaust Memorial Lecture is hosted by the Blavatnik School of Government each year to mark United Nations Holocaust Remembrance Day.

This year’s lecture, given by author and journalist Jonathan Freedland, centres on the story of one of the few Jewish prisoners ever to break out of Auschwitz and his attempts to alert the world to the horrors there, and asks how we can build institutions that ensure the world never experiences such atrocities again.

Carolina Osorio Gil is a PhD candidate in Development Sociology at Cornell University’s Department of Global Development where she studies epistemic and ontological strategies of resistance by rural communities (campesina/os) to large-scale development in Latin America. Carolina will present on her dissertation research project, a participatory and ethnographic study in partnership with the Movimiento Ríos Vivos (Living Rivers Movement), a campesina/o movement that is in resistance to Hidroituango, the largest hydroelectric project in Colombia.