Thursday, September 17 at 6:30 pm
The Future of the Past 
Speakers: Roland Greene, '79 and 
Marianne Hirsch, '70, '75
Granoff Center, Martinos Auditorium

Friday, September 18 at Noon
Panel Discussion: Brown and Beyond
Granoff Center, Englander Studio, Room N420

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Roland Greene, Old Terms, New Lives

Roland Green's recent work includes Five Words: Critical Semantics in the Age of Shakespeare and Cervantes and (as editor in chief) the fourth edition of the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. He is Mark Pigott KBE Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University and director of Arcade (http://arcade.stanford.edu), a digital salon for literature and the humanities. He serves as the 2015 president of the Modern Language Association of America. 

Marianne Hirsch, Mobile Memories

Marianne Hirsch is WIlliam Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and Director of the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Her recent books include Family Frames: Photography, Narrative and Postmemory; The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust; and Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory, co-authored with Leo Spitzer. She was the 2013 president of the Modern Language Association of America. 

 Co-sponsored by the Brown 250th Committee project "Brazenly Brown" and the Department of Comparative Literature.