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A group of Wesleyan students, led by Demian Pritchard, visiting assistant professor of Latina/o literature and culture in the English Department, attended a reading by Cherríe Moraga at Wellesley College Nov. 20. Moraga is an influential and prolific Chicana lesbian writer of poetry, drama and essays. She is known for mixing genre in her writing as she engages issues of sexuality, race, gender and class - alongside questions of nation and language. Her reading was titled "Still Loving in the Still War Years," a play on the title of one of her most widely read books: Loving in the War…
Berel Lang, visiting professor of philosophy, visiting professor of letters, has given lectures recently at a conference held at Boston University in honor of Elie Wiesel's 80th Birthday; at a conference on "History and Memory of the Holocaust," held in Berlin at the Adenauer Foundation; and at a conference on "Holocaust Denial" in Paris at the Ecole Normale Superieure. Lang's new book, Philosophical Witnessing: The Holocaust as Presence, is scheduled for publication by the University Press of New England in 2009.
David PesciPulitzer Prize winning author, historian and philosopher Saul Friedlander will deliver a presentation titled "Toward an Integrated History of the Holocaust" as the featured speaker at this year’s Hallie Lecture, which will be held at 4:15 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 23 in Memorial Chapel. (more…)