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SUMMARY:Touching Photographs/Prompting Postmemories: A Conversation with S
 cholar Marianne Hirsch and Artist Sara Davidmann - Professor Marianne Hirs
 ch (Columbia University)
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DESCRIPTION:In this seminar\, Marianne Hirsch and Sara Davidmann will refl
 ect on the very different ways the family photographs they inherited have 
 shaped their work on family and cultural memory.\n\nWhat do photographs fr
 om the European Jewish world before the Holocaust tell us about Jewish lif
 e and how the legacies of its destruction have shaped subsequent generatio
 ns?\n\nHow do photographs carry memory? How do they prompt our own postmem
 ories?\n\nThe discussion will be based on Hirsch’s autobiographical and 
 theoretical writing and Davidmann’s artistic practice.\n\nThe conversati
 on will be followed by a coffee break and an optional workshop on Memory a
 nd Photography facilitated by the two speakers. Attendees are invited to b
 ring one photograph and think about the stories it has enabled.\n\n\nSpeak
 er Details:\n\nMarianne Hirsch is William Peterfield Trent Professor Emeri
 ta of Comparative Literature and Gender Studies at Columbia University and
  a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Combining memoir\,
  literature and photography\, she writes about the transmission of memorie
 s of violent histories across generations\, a process she has termed “po
 stmemory.” Her recent books include The Generation of Postmemory: Writin
 g and Visual Culture After the Holocaust\, Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife o
 f Czernowitz in Jewish Memory\, and School Photos in Liquid Time: Reframin
 g Difference\, both co-authored with Leo Spitzer\, as well as the co-edite
 d volume Women Mobilizing Memory. She is currently working on a book about
  reparative memory.\n\n\nSara Davidmann is a multi-award-winning artist li
 ving and working in London. For over a decade (2011- )\, Sara’s work has
  focused on her family history.  Sara’s work has been exhibited in Canad
 a\, Australia\, Germany\, France\, India and the United Kingdom and was th
 e focus of three events at the Victoria & Albert Museum\, London. Publicat
 ions include three photography monographs. Sara has also published book ch
 apters and journal articles contextualising her artwork\, and she regularl
 y gives artist’s talks. She has received numerous awards for her work\, 
 including a Philip Leverhulme Prize\, a Fulbright Hays Scholarship\, four 
 Arts and Humanities Research Council awards and an Association of Commonwe
 alth Universities Fellowship. Sara has a PhD in Photography (practice-base
 d) from London College of Communication\, University of the Arts London.\n
 \n\nAbout the Programme:\n\nJewish Women's Voices is a collaborative initi
 ative by Dr Kate Kennedy\, Director of the ‘Oxford Centre for Life-Writi
 ng’\, and Dr Vera Fine-Grodzinski\, a scholar of Jewish social and cultu
 ral history.\n\nThe Programme is the first of its kind at any UK academic 
 institution. Launched in October 2023\, the Programme celebrates the life-
 writing of Jewish women often underrepresented in mainstream history accou
 nts. The Programme is a three-term seminar series dedicated to exploring t
 he diverse experiences of Jewish women across centuries\, countries\, and 
 cultures. Further information about the Programme can be found here. \n\n\
 nFurther Details and Contacts:\n\nThis hybrid event is free and open to al
 l\; however\, registration is required.\n\nThis event will be recorded and
  made available soon after on the OCLW website.\n\n\nRegistration will clo
 se at 10:30 on 3 June 2025.\n\nQueries regarding this event should be addr
 essed to OCLW Events Manager\, Dr Eleri Anona Watson.\nSpeakers:\nProfesso
 r Marianne Hirsch (Columbia University)
LOCATION:Wolfson College (The Buttery\; accessibility information availabl
 e here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college)\, Lint
 on Road OX2 6UD
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