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Paul Bernard-Nouraud

Raul Hilberg Fellow
"Representation of Bodies in Visual Contemporary Arts after Auschwitz"

Professional Background

Mr. Bernard-Nouraud is a PhD Candidate in Art History and Aesthetics at the School of High Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris, France. His dissertation is on “Undefined Bodies: The Representation of the Bodies in Arts after Auschwitz.” His publications include: “Cartographier la Shoah. Les témoignages des dessins”, pedagogical support for the workshop on drawings of the Mémorial de la Shoah, Paris; “Tentations idéogrammatiques du vide. Du Vide de Barnett Newman aux Fields de Michal Rovner”, in GOLDBERG, Itzhak, Le Vide, Ed. Presses Universitaires de Paris Ouest Nanterre et Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris (Paper to be published in October 2012); “Porter la mémoire d’Auschwitz. Traces et ombres du génocide dans l’art contemporain”, in SAGARRA, Catalina, Génocides : “Trans-Mission” des mémoires. Ed. Presses Universitaires Européennes, Sarrebruck (Paper to be published in 2012); Se figurer l’autre. Essai sur la figure du “musulman” dans les camps de concentration nazis. Ed. Petra, Paris (Book to be published in March 2013); and Les ombres solitaires. Essai sur la pièce de théâtre Dans la solitude des champs de coton, de Bernard-Marie Koltès. Ed. Petra, Paris (Book to be published in October 2012). Mr. Bernard-Nouraud has presented at various conferences, including the American Comparative Literature Association Congress (ACLA) at Brown University, Providence, on Figuring the Other: Colonial and Orientalist Sources of the Figure of the “Muslim” in the Nazi Death Camps; the 2012 EHESS Seminar on Disparition et persistance du paysage dans l’art d’après Auschwitz; the 2011 Seminar of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah on La représentation des corps dans l’art d’après Auschwitz. Contribution à l’étude de la portée historique de la Shoah; and the 2011 French Canadian Association for Knowledge (ACFAS) Congress at Bishop University, Sherbrooke, on Porter la mémoire d’Auschwitz. Traces et ombres du génocide dans l’art contemporain.

Fellowship Research

He is the recipient of the 2011-2012 Doctoral Fellowship from the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, Paris; a Research Journey Grant from the EHESS to lead research in the Yad Vashem Institute, the Israel Museum and the Ghetto Fighters’ House in Israel in July-August 2012; a Research Journey Grant from the Fondation Auschwitz of Brussels to lead research in the Auschwitz State Museum in Poland in August 2012; and two short-term grants from EHESS to participate in the ACLA Congress in April 2012 and in the ACFAS Congress in May 2011. Mr. Bernard-Nouraud has language skills in French, English, and Spanish.

For his Raul Hilberg Fellowship, Mr. Bernard-Nouraud researched “Representation of Bodies in Visual Contemporary Arts after Auschwitz”.

Mr. Bernard-Nouraud was in residence at the Mandel Center from September 1 to December 31, 2012.