30 Oct 2014 5:00pm - 7:00pm Room SG1, Alison Richard Building (NB different day and time)

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Small Acts of Repair: The Unclaimed Legacy of the Romanian Holocaust

Professor Marianne Hirsch (Columbia University, USA)
Professor Em Leo Spitzer (Dartmouth College, USA)

Marianne Hirsch is William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and Professor in the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality. She is immediate past president of the Modern Language Association of America. Hirsch's work combines feminist theory with memory studies, particularly the transmission of memories of violence across generations. Her recent books include The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust (Columbia University Press, 2012), Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory, co-authored with Leo Spitzer (University of California Press, 2010).

Leo Spitzer is the Vernon Professor of History Emeritus at Dartmouth College. The recipient of numerous fellowships, including a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and a National Humanities Center award, he writes on photography, testimony, and Jewish refugee memory and its transmission. He is the author of Hotel Bolivia: The Culture of Memory in a Refuge from Nazism; Lives in Between: Assimilation and Marginality in Austria, Brazil and West Africa; The Creoles of Sierra Leone: Responses to Colonialism; and co-editor, with Mieke Bal and Jonathan Crewe, of Acts of Memory: Cultural Recall in the Present.

Further information: https://www.dropbox.com/s/v7r1i5m9qp8e8my/SMALL%20ACTS%20OF%20REPAIR%20for%20Craps%20volume%20%20copy.docx?dl=0

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