Modern Roads to Rome Lecture: "Literary Echoes. The Round-up and Deportation of the Jews of Rome," by Mara Josi (University College Dublin).

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Location: Decio-3-AL 344 Seminar Room (20) (View on map )

Mara Josi. Literary Echoes. The Round-up and Deportation of the Jews of Rome
Sketches by Aldo Gay (1914 - 2004) portraying moments from the 1943 raid on the Roman Ghetto are accompanied by examples of Stolperstein memorials

As part of the Modern Roads to Rome series, the Notre Dame Center for Italian Studies and Notre Dame Rome are pleased to invite you to a lecture led by Dr. Mara Josi. The event will be livestreamed from Rome.

Mara Josi is Assistant Professor at University College Dublin. She completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge (UK) and held Postdoctoral positions at University College Dublin and Ghent University, as well as a lectureship at the University of Manchester. Her first book, Rome, 16 October 1943. History, Memory, Literature (2023) was awarded the Premio Internazionale Ennio Flaiano di Italianistica. Mara’s work reflects her interest in innovative research methodologies and cultural approaches to the study of literature. She has designed interdisciplinary frameworks which merge notions of Holocaust and cultural memory studies with literary and trauma theory.

 

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Originally published at italianstudies.nd.edu.