Event Category: FIGS

623 Williams Hall Since family narratives seem to be all around us, the discussion around the family novel emerged in the last twenty years within Italian literary criticism. Although the definition of this genre still is a work-in-progress, different scholars have observed that recursive structures influence its form, particularly through what has been termed a […]

Cherpack Lounge Tea Arciszewska’s play Miryeml was heralded as a powerful memorial to the million children murdered in the Holocaust. In this talk, Sonia Gollance will discuss her translation of this nearly-forgotten modernist masterpiece as part of a broader effort to uncover Yiddish plays by women. Sonia Gollance is Associate Professor in Yiddish Studies at University […]