Suffolk University’s Ford Hall Forum, History, Language & Global Culture and Communication, Journalism, & Media Departments, and the Women’s & Gender Studies Program present:
Barbara Abrams, Ph.D., author of the new book, ReSisters: Forensic Storytelling and the Literary Roots of Early Modern Feminism, and Laura Levitt, Ph.D., author of The Objects That Remain, join in a conversation about women’s stories of trauma and transcendence. This talk weaves together several stories of survival both chronologically and thematically and emphasizes the significance of the use of objects in women’s storytelling, from 18th Century France to the Holocaust, to the present. The afternoon’s moderator is Shoshana Madmoni-Gerber, Ph.D., chair and associate professor, Communication, Journalism & Media Department, Suffolk University.
Barbara Abrams is Chair and Professor in the History, Language, & Global Culture Department at Suffolk University. Her academic work focuses on French literature of the Enlightenment, Women’s, and Gender Studies, and Global and Cultural Studies. She is the author of numerous books, including Reframing Rousseau’s Le Lévite d’Ephraïm: The Hebrew Bible, Hospitality, and Modern Identity and Le Bizarre and Le Décousu in the Novels and Theoretical Works of Denis Diderot: How the Idea of Marginality Originated in Eighteenth-Century France.
Laura Levitt is Professor of Religion, Jewish Studies, and Gender at Temple University where she has chaired the Religion Department and directed both the Jewish Studies and the Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Programs. She is currently the Benedict Distinguished Visiting Professor of Religion at Carleton College. Levitt is the author of The Objects that Remain (2020); American Jewish Loss after the Holocaust (2007); and Jews and Feminism: The Ambivalent Search for Home (1997) and a co-editor of Impossible Images: Contemporary Art After the Holocaust (2003); and Judaism Since Gender (1997).
Thursday, March 21, 2024
Sargent Hall, 120 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
Room 235, Second Floor
12:30 – 1:45 p.m.
In-person and live via ZOOM
Lunch will be provided.
This program is free and open to the public.
