The Graduate Group in History of Art, Classics and Ancient and Near Eastern Archaeology
presents the following special lecture:

“Memory Citizenship:
Migrant Women and Holocaust Remembrance in Contemporary Germany”

Michael Rothberg and Yasemin Yildiz
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Monday, November 22nd
4:30 pm
Carpenter B21

Michael Rothberg is Professor of English, Comparative and World Literature, Criticism and Interpretive Theory, Germanic Languages and Literatures and Jewish Culture and Society.  He is the author of Mulitdirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization (Stanford) and Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representation (Minnesota).

Yasemin Yildiz is Assistant Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures.  She is the author of the forthcoming The Postmonolingual Condition: Writing Beyond the Mother Tongue and is currently at work on a second book, Governing European Subjects: The Discourse of “Muslim” Women and the Production of Europeanness in Contemporary Germany.

Tuesday, October 26, at 6 p.m.
Canaday Library, 2nd floor, the Eva Jane Romaine Coombe ’52 Special Collections suite.

In celebration of the new Art and Artifacts Database.

Refreshments served.