Appendix: Holocaust Studies with Andrea Dara Cooper
Material Girls
Rehak Hannah
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to our Appendix Season — a chance to look at the Harry Potter series as a whole.
In this episode we bring in a guest, Andrea Dara Cooper (she/her), to talk about Holocaust Studies. Andrea is Associate Professor and Leonard and Tobee Kaplan Scholar in Modern Jewish Thought and Culture at UNC-Chapel Hill — and she is the author of Gendering Modern Jewish Thought (Indiana University Press, 2021). Tune in for a conversation about the function of allegory in Harry Potter. When does it work in this series? When does it fall short? What are the political implications of relying on the Holocaust to make new meaning in a fantasy world both chock full of stereotypes and severely lacking in diversity? If you enjoyed our episodes on Animal Studies, Eugenics, and Werewolves as Metaphor (just to name a few!), this is required listening!
Note: Hannah's computer crashed while recording so we apologize for the poor quality of her sound!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Witch Please, a fortnightly podcast about the Harry Potter world. |
| 0:15.2 | I'm Marcel Cosmon, and I'm Hannah McGregor, and we're back with another appendix to our |
| 0:21.9 | rebooted interrogation of the Harry Potter books. |
| 0:25.7 | It's right, Hannah, and this is our first guest appendix, or should I say, append |
| 0:32.2 | Guest to me. |
| 0:33.5 | I really don't like that for a variety of reasons, including that it sounds like we are surgically |
| 0:41.1 | removing our guests. |
| 0:42.6 | When in fact, what we're trying to do is surgically suture them into our bodies. |
| 0:49.0 | So to mark the occasion, I thought it would be fun if in the sorting chat, we talked |
| 0:55.1 | about one-off lectures that really impacted us, and that could be like a workshop, or |
| 1:01.5 | a guest lecture, or a conference talk, or something like that. |
| 1:06.0 | And yeah, I'll give you an example by which I mean, I'm going to go first. |
| 1:11.2 | Thank goodness. |
| 1:13.2 | Okay. |
| 1:14.1 | So way back, maybe 2009, 2010, no way to know, I attended a harm reduction workshop for |
| 1:21.2 | service providers, and it was facilitated by the folks from Toronto Public Health. |
| 1:26.6 | I knew about harm reduction, which is why I attended the, I wanted to go to the workshop |
| 1:31.6 | because I knew about it, and I thought it would be good. |
| 1:34.0 | But I did not know the history of the criminalization of drugs in Canada, and that is what |
| 1:41.9 | I learned in this workshop. |
| 1:43.4 | The workshop introduced me to the very relationship between first wave feminism, temperance, and |
| 1:49.8 | the criminalization of substance use, and it like radically shaped my approach to studying |
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