Jewish Women’s Voices Seminar: ‘Touching Photographs/Prompting Postmemories: A Conversation with Scholar Marianne Hirsch and Artist Sara Davidmann’

Part of the Vera Fine-Grodzinski Programme for Jewish Women’s Voices

In this seminar, Marianne Hirsch and Sara Davidmann will reflect on the very different ways the family photographs they inherited have shaped their work on family and cultural memory.

What do photographs from the European Jewish world before the Holocaust tell us about Jewish life and how the legacies of its destruction have shaped subsequent generations?

How do photographs carry memory? How do they prompt our own post memories?

The discussion will be based on Hirsch’s autobiographical and theoretical writing and Davidmann’s artistic practice.

The conversation will be followed by a coffee break and an optional workshop on Memory and Photography facilitated by the two speakers. Attendees are invited to bring one photograph and think about the stories it has enabled.