A growing number of scholars are making their own relatives their object of study. These personal family histories mark a significant shift in scholarly practice and writing, with far-reaching methodological, political, and ethical implications. Scholars and Their Kin is one of the first symposia to bring together scholars who are presently writing in this vein or have recently done so.…
Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a reading and talk by Angelika Bammer, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Emory University, on the issues raised in her memoir "Born After: Reckoning with the German Past" (Bloomsbury, 2019). The book grapples with the legacies of German and Nazi history, and reflects on the relationship between history and memory through Angelika Bammer's personal…
Why should historians consider developing new forms of historical writing, and of what might those forms consist? This discussion of craft will explore how historians can draw on literary and journalistic methods to construct and convey knowledge. Using brief sample texts, historian and writer Ivan Jablonka and journalist Brooke Kroeger will demonstrate the practical application of specific strategies. Ivan Jablonka…