Dr. Kathryn Huether
Academic Coordinator, "AI & Extremism" Initiative
UCLA Leve Center for Jewish Studies
2026–Present
Lab Publications
How to: Never Forget: Holocaust Memory on the Platform Age, Queering Heritage, Affective Platforms, and the Labor of Memory
2026Book ChapterQueering Jewish Cultural Heritage in Europe (Routledge)
Sonic Contagion and the Typologies of Hate on TikTok
2026Journal ArticleMusic & Politics, vol. 20, Summer 2026, art. 3
The Violin as Archive: Genealogies of Sound and Memory in Holocaust Film
2026Journal ArticleJournal of the Society of American Music
Hate and Non-Human Listening: An Introduction
2026Sounding Out!
Pre-Mediation and the Crisis of Experiential Memorialization: Listening to the Nova Festival Exhibition
2026Journal ArticleYuval: Studies of the Jewish Music Research Centre
Presentations
International Holocaust Remembrance Day Lecture
Ohio State University
Futures of Holocaust Memory: Ethical and Technological Challenges
Association for Jewish Studies 58th Annual Conference
Sounding Traumatic Memory
Lessons and Legacies XVII HEFNU at 50: Contexts, Connections, and (Dis)continuities
Artificial Witness: AI and the Politics of Trust
Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Faith, and Epistemic Coherence
AI and Musical Creativity
Co-Creativity in Music, Sound, and AI, UC Riverside
2026 BKI Impact Symposium, "Toward a Better AI?: Can AI combat hate with kindness?"
UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute and Initiative to Study Hate
From Archive to Platform: Sonic Framings and (Re)Framings of Holocaust Images
32nd International Conference of Europeanists
Symposium on Sound and Hate Studies
UCLA Initiative to Study Hate and the Herb Alpert School of Music
Act of Translation: Personal Stories in a Post-Survivor World
Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University, Regional Institute
Digital Preservation or Digital Erosion?: The Ethics of Representing Anne Frank in AI
Confronting Holocaust Distortion in the Digital Age, POLIN Museum of Jewish Heritage, Warsaw, Poland