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Jun 2, 2026

Lecture: Simone Stirner, “Haunting, Quilting, Melting: Shapes of Queer Memory”

What happens to our understanding of relational memory when viewed through queer histories? In this talk, Stirner examines memory art dedicated to often neglected queer and trans histories after National Socialism, from translucent quilts to an installation that melts a...

Jun 3, 2026

Workshop with Simone Stirner: "Intertextuality as Relational Memory: Paul Celan’s ‘Death Fugue’ in the Poetry of Almadhoun, Clark, Dzukogi”

RSVP required.Paul Celan’s poem “Death Fugue” is one of the most famous poems to commemorate the Holocaust. Celan himself refused to publicly read the poem in the decades after its publication. But the poem and its key figure of “black...

Feb 3, 2027

Global Antiquities & Early Modernisms Lecture

Details TBA

May 17, 2027

Global Antiquities & Early Modernisms Lecture

Details TBA