Monday, April 7, 2025 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

In-Person at Columbia University Knox Hall, Room 208, 606 W. 122 St., New York, NY 10027

RSVP needed. Email Prof. Khatchig Mouradian at km3253@columbia.edu to RSVP.

FEATURED SPEAKERS:

Nancy Kricorian, author of four novels about post-genocide Armenian diaspora experience, including her latest book The Burning Heart of the World, which focuses on an Armenian family in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War. Her poems and essays have been published in The Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly, The Markaz Review, Parnassus, Wasafiri, Minnesota Review, and other journals. She lives in New York.

Marianne Hirsch, writer about the transmission of memories of violent histories across generations, a process she has termed “postmemory.” Her recent books include The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust (2012), Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory (2010) and School Photos in Liquid Time: Reframing Difference (2020), both co-authored with Leo Spitzer, and the co-edited volume Women Mobilizing Memory (2019).  Hirsch is Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature and Gender Studies at Columbia University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is working on a book about “Epiphanies of Repair."

Join us on April 7 for a discussion featuring novelist Nancy Kricorian and Prof. Marianne Hirsch about Kricorian’s novel The Burning Heart of the World!

CO-SPONSORS:

Columbia University Armenian Center

Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS)

Columbia University Armenian Society

NAASR