The Department of English is hosting a reading/ presentation of work by Writer in Residence Joanna Walsh and Screenwriter in Residence Lindsay J. Sedgwick on Wed. October 26th at 6pm, following a lecture by Professor Marianne Hirsch (Columbia University), who will be speaking at 4pm on 'Small Acts: Mobilizing Memory Across Borders'. A wine reception will take place at 5.30 between the two events.
Marianne Hirsch is William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and Director of the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Her books include The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust (2012), Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory, co-authored with Leo Spitzer (2010), Rites of Return: Diaspora, Poetics and the Politics of Memory, co-edited with Nancy K. Miller (2011) and Family Frames: Photography, Narrative and Postmemory (1997).
This talk is generously funded by Maynooth University’s Commemorations Committee and the Irish Research Council.
For further information, please contact oona.frawley@mu.ie