"Europe en Miniature at the Margins" - Round Table: Ruth Levin

Activity Type: 
Lecture
Presenter: 
Ruth Levin
Date: 
Monday, September 15, 2014 - 17:00
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Location: 
602 Cathedral of Learning

Actress and scholar Ruth Levin will join in a round table discussion titled "Europe en Miniature at the Margins." Focusing on a "Europe en miniature" at the "eastern-most border" of "Europe"--a region of "books and people," as the poet Paul Celan called it--is a region that is home to Austro-German, Jewish, Romanian, and Ukrainian cultures and has produced many poets who were fluent in several languages. The panel will discuss the ways in which literature gave and gives insight into historical events, including the Shoah, at a time when the Soviets did not wish to acknowledge the mass murder of Jews in Nazi-occupied territories of the USSR.

UCIS Unit: 
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Non-University Sponsors: 
Humanities Center
World Regions: 
Europe