Dr. Irene Silverblatt Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Member of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Duke University
presents
Modern Inquisitions Thursday, February 4, 2016 11:10 a.m. The Helene Fortunoff Theater Monroe Lecture Center California Avenue, South Campus
Irene Silverblatt studies how “race-thinking” and gender relations have been integral to the making of the modern world as well as how historical memory has shaped feelings of national belonging and demands for universal rights. Professor Silverblatt’s research in Central and Eastern Europe explores the ways in which historical memory, particularly of the Holocaust, plays a role in the transformation of national ideologies as well as in the conceptualization of transnational human rights.
Sponsored by Hofstra University Honors College, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, Women Studies Program, the Department of Religion and Jewish Studies Program
THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. For more information, please email Dr. Santiago Slabodsky, Robert and Florence Kaufman Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies, at Santiago.Slabodsky@hofstra.edu.