Rites of Return: Poetics and Politics A conference sponsored by The Center for the Humanities, The Graduate Center, CUNY and The Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference, Columbia University, 10—11 April 2008
Abstract:This conference began with a story. In her opening remarks, co-organizer Marianne Hirsch (Columbia, USA) explained the genesis of the two-day event by narrating her own journey, 10 years earlier, to her parents' hometown of what was once the Austro-Habsburg city of Czernowitz. The trip, Hirsch noted, was one she never imagined she might be able to make. Yet, she said, 'that place had ceased to exist, except in memory'. Despite or precisely because of the indeterminacy of this 'return' to a place she never real… Show more
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