Donnerstag, 04. Dezember 2014, 14:30 - 16:00 iCal
Vortrag: Hungarian Women’s Holocaust Life Writing
Gastvortrag von Prof. Dr. Louise O. Vasvári (Stony Brook University)
EVSL Abteilung Finno-Ugristik, Campus Hof 7
Spitalgasse 2-4, A-1090 Wien
Vortrag
Hungarian Women’s Holocaust Life Writing in the Context of the Nation’s Divided Social Memory: 1944-2014
Louise O. Vasvári is is Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature and of Linguistics at Stony Brook University. Currently she teaches in the linguistics department at New York University and is also Affiliated Professor in American and English Studies at the University of Szeged, Hungary. She works in medieval studies, historical and socio-linguistics, translation theory, Holocaust studies, and Hungarian Studies, all informed by gender theory within a broader framework of comparative cultural studies.
In her talk, she will explore selected women’s Holocaust diaries, memoirs, letters, and other less studied documents, such as recipe books, all written during the war, which can provide invaluable resources for understanding the experiences of the victims of war, by personalizing the events and helping to write the obscure into history. At the same time, such documents allow historical voices of the period to provide testimony in the context of the divided social memory of the Holocaust in Hungary today.
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Andrea Seidler
Universität Wien, Institut für Europäische und Vergleichende Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft (EVSL)
Abteilung Finno-Ugristik
4277 43017
andrea.seidler@univie.ac.at
Erstellt am Donnerstag, 02. Oktober 2014, 10:15
Letzte Änderung am Donnerstag, 02. Oktober 2014, 13:09