[Cz-L] 2 talks in New York

Dear Czernowitzers,

We are giving two Czernowitz-related talks in New York in the next two
weeks, to which you are cordially invited: one in the context of a
conference "Rites of Return: Poetics and Politics" held on April 10
and 11 ( we speak on the 11th at CUNY Graduate Center) and one on
April 16th at Columbia University. See below:
The Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center, CUNY and the
Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference, Columbia
University
cordially invite you to

1. Rites of Return: Poetics and Politics
A two-day symposium about the new genealogy, cultural memory and the
contemporary obsession with the recovery of roots.

Thursday, April 10, 2008, Columbia University Law School, 435 W. 116th
Street
Friday, April 11, 2008, Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center,
CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th Street)

Program Schedule

Thursday, April 10
Columbia University Law School
435 W. 116th Street

3:30pm
OPENING REMARKS
G 102, Law School

4-6pm
SITES OF RETURN AND THE NEW TOURISM
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Rising from the Rubble: Building the Museum of the History of Polish
Jews on the Site of the Warsaw Ghetto
Liz Sevcenko
Sites of Conscience: Activating Historic Sites for Addressing
Contemporary Issues
Diana Taylor
Witness to the Ruins: Trauma and Durational Performance
Susan Meiselas
Nicaragua
Moderated by Marita Sturken

6-7pm
OPENING RECEPTION
Law School Lobby

7-9pm
RIGHTS OF RETURN: THE QUESTION OF KATRINA
JG 106, Law School
David Troutt
Segregation's Diaspora: Localism After Katrina
Keith Calhoun & Chandra McCormick
Free
Farah Jasmine Griffin
CHILDREN OF OMAR: New Orleans, Resistance, Resilience & Resettlement
Patricia Williams
O Give Me a Home: Discouraging Words From Out on the Range
Moderated by George Lewis

Friday, April 11
Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 5th Avenue (at 34th Street)

9:30am
OPENING REMARKS

9:45-11:15am
ROOTLESS NOSTALGIAS: NEW ROUTES, NEW MEDIA
Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer
The Web and The Reunion: <czernowitz.ehpes.com>
Jay Prosser
My Grandfather's Voice: Jewish Immigrants from Baghdad to Bombay
Svetlana Boym
Nostalgia and Eccentric Modernities
Moderated by Geoffrey Batchen

11:30am-1pm
THE BODY POLITIC: ROOTS & DNA
Nadia Abu El-Haj
History Meets a New Biology: the Embrace of DNA in the Age of
Identity Politics
Jarrod Hayes
Queer Roots for the Diaspora
Alondra Nelson
The Factness of Diaspora: The Sources of Genetic Genealogy
Moderated by Brent Edwards

1-2:30pm
LUNCH BREAK

2:30pm-4pm
LITERARY RETURNS: A CONVERSATION
Daniel Mendelsohn
Author of The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
Saidiya Hartman
Author of Lose Your Mother
Eva Hoffman
Author of After Such Knowledge
Moderated by Nancy K. Miller

4:30-6
KEYNOTE
Amira Hass
Between Two Returns
Introduced by Aoibheann Sweeney

Co Sponsors: The Graduate Center, CUNY: The Center for the Study of
Women and Society, The Concentration in Twentieth-Century Studies;
Columbia University: Seminar on Cultural Memory, Institute for
Research on Women and Gender, Center for Institutional and Social
Change at Columbia Law School, Institute for Research on African
American Studies, Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race,
Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Barnard Center for
Research on Women; The Holocaust Educators Network and the Memorial
Library & Art Collection for World War II.

Free and open to the public. No reservations.

For more information, please call the Center for the Humanities at
212.817.2005 or http://web.gc.cuny.edu/humanities or http://www.columbia.edu/cu/irwag/projects/main/rites/






2. Wednesday, April 16 @ 8:00pm
Marianne Hirsch & Leo Spitzer
"The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory and History"

Literary scholar Marianne Hirsch (Columbia University) and historian
Leo Spitzer (Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor of History, Dartmouth
College and Visiting Professor, Department of History, Columbia
University) team up to present material from their current book
project, "Ghosts of Home," on the destruction of Czernowitz's vibrant
Jewish culture during the Holocaust and its cultural afterlife in
diasporic memory.

  Deutsches Haus at Columbia University
420 West 116th Street
New York, NY 10027
Tel: 212-854-1858

Co-sponsored with the Center for Israel and Jewish Studies.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
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