[Cz-L] Upcoming lecture in Dearborn, Michigan

<x-flowed>The following information about an upcoming lecture by Professors
Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer was forwarded to me by Jerry Lapides.
If you live near the University of Michigan, Dearborn, I believe the
4:30 pm Feb. 21 lecture is free and open to the public. Read on
below! (By the way, Professors Hirsch and Spitzer are fellow members
of Czernowitz-L.)

Best regards,

Bruce

From: "Jerry Lapides" <jlapides_at_comcast.net>
To: "Bruce Reisch" <bir1_at_nysaes.cornell.edu>
Cc: "Jacqueline Vansant" <jvansant_at_umd.umich.edu>
Subject: Fw: "Interdisciplinary Investigations"
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 12:58:20 -0500

This may be of interest to all Czernowitzers.

Jerry


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jacqueline Vansant" <jvansant_at_umd.umich.edu>
To: "Jerry Lapides, Ph.D." <jlapides_at_umd.umich.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 11:29 AM
Subject: Re: "Interdisciplinary Investigations"


Hi, Jerry,

I'm so glad you'll be able to attend the events when Hirsch and Spitzer
are here.

I've included an abstract of their paper for the smaller group. It will
follow the lunch (I've got you down for that)
I've also attached a description of their talk. Please feel free to pass
it on to anyone you think might be interested. Are there other
"Czernowitzers" in this area?
Best,
Jackie

"Points of Memory: Acts of Transfer, Gendered Readings"

Focusing on material remnants from the Terezin and Vapniarka
concentration camps (a book of recipes and a miniature artists' book),
this essay argues for an expanded, multi-generic, approach to survivor
testimony - one in which a consideration of gender plays a central
interpretive role. Such material remnants carry memory traces from the
past and embody the process of its transmission. Indeed, they serve as
unique points of memory - points of intersection between past and
present, memory and postmemory, personal memory and cultural recall.
They enable us to consider crucial questions about the past, and about
how the past comes down to us in the present.



University of Michigan-Dearborn "Interdisciplinary Investigations"

Feb. 21, 2005 CB 1030, 4:30 p.m.

Marianne Hirsch (English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University) and
Leo Spitzer (History, Columbia University)

"Czernowitz, the Vienna of the East:
How Jews Became German"

Through a "return" visit to present-day Cernivtsi in the Ukraine,
this talk traces the history of Habsburg Czernowitz, the story of
Jewish assimilation to an Austro-German way of life, and the
blossoming of the distinct German-Jewish culture that would be
remembered and perpetuated long after its dispersion and destruction.

Marianne Hirsch's publications include Family Frames: Photography,
Narrative, and Postmemory (1997), The Familial Gaze (1999), and Time
and the Literary (2002). In addition, she edited a special issue of
Signs on "Gender and Cultural Memory (2002). She is currently editor
of the PMLA. Leo Spitzer's publications include Hotel Bolivia: The
Cultural Memory in a Refuge from Nazism (1998), Lives in Between:
Assimilation and Marginality in Austria, Brazil and West Africa
(1990). He co-edited Acts of Memory: Cultural Recall in the Present
(1999) with Mieke Bal and Jonathan Crewe. Currently, Hirsch and
Spitzer are collaborating on a book titled Ghosts of Home: Czernowitz
and the Holocaust.

Event supported through a generous grant from the Office of the
Chancellor. Organized by the MALS Program. For further information
contact Jacqueline Vansant (jvansant_at_umich.edu or 313-593-5153)
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Received on 2005-02-08 13:24:35