The Politics of Victimhood:
The Work of
Dahlia Ravikovitch
Tuesday , March 12, 2013
3:30pm to 5:30pm
Schusterman conference room, 3rd Floor
mandel center for the humanities
Brandeis University
415 South Street, Waltham MA 02454
Ilana Szobel, an assistant professor of
modern Hebrew literature at Brandeis University,
will give a talk drawing on her recent book,
A Poetics of Trauma: The Work of Dahlia Ravikovitch.
In her work, Ravikovitch, an Israeli writer and
Israel Prize Laureate, raises provocative questions
about gender, trauma, and nationalism. Using close
reading and the lenses of gender and psychoanalytic
theory, Szobel analyzes Ravikovitch’s entire work
as a depiction of the emotional structure of trauma
survivors.
Ilana Szobel is an assistant
professor on the Joseph H. and Belle
R. Braun Chair in Hebrew Literature
in the Department of Near Eastern
and Judaic Studies at Brandeis
University. Her fields of interest
include women’s and gender studies,
psychoanalysis, trauma studies, postcolonial theories, and film theories.
PROGRAM
3:30 pm
3:45 pm
4:30 pm
5 pm
Introduction: Ilan Troen
Ilana Szobel
Q & A Session
Reception
Parking is available in Tower Lot.
Your RSVP is strongly encouraged:
hbi@brandeis.edu
This
event is co - sponsored by the
Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, the Women’s
Program, and the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies.
Schusterman Center
for Israel Studies
Brandeis University
www.brandeis.edu/hbi | 781-736-2064 | hbi@brandeis.edu
and
Gender Studies