UNE Center for 全球 Humanities presents ‘Is Harvard Killing Me?3月25日
In the early 2000s, Svetlana Boym emerged as one of academia’s leading public intellectuals. 在短短几年的时间里, the Russian-Jewish scholar produced a veritable library of influential books and papers, while receiving a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Academy in Berlin Fellowship, the Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award. No one doubted that the prolific member of Harvard University’s Comparative Literatures department was on her way to ever greater heights.
But then tragedy struck when Boym received a cancer diagnosis. Six months later, the disease claimed her life in 2015. 她只有56岁.
Before she left this world, 然而, Boym reflected on all she had left behind when she immigrated to America in search of the physical and academic freedoms denied her in Russia. 在她的决赛中, 未出版的手稿, she reflected on what she had abandoned and betrayed to achieve her success. “哈佛要杀了我吗??” she asked herself shortly after her first session of chemotherapy. Grappling with the ultimate meaning of her life in its final days, she came to celebrate the Russian-Jewish culture, 以及不可思议的自由, 她年轻时就知道了.
This is the topic historian Tony David will take up when he visits the University of New England Center for 全球 Humanities to present a lecture titled “哈佛在杀我吗??” on Monday, March 25, at 6 p.m. at the WCHP Lecture Hall in Parker Pavilion on the UNE Portland Campus for the 健康 科学s.
David is a faculty member at 正规澳门赌场网络丹吉尔校区 and the author of nine books, including most recently “Friendly Fire: How Israel Became Its Own Worst Enemy and Its Hope for the Future,” which he wrote with Ami Ayalon, the former director of the Israeli Shin Bet. 他的下一本书, the basis for this talk, is “The Daring Club: The Many Lives of Svetlana Boym” (Steerforth, 2024).
After telling the story of Boym’s physical and intellectual journey, David will conclude with a tribute to Boym that illuminates how her renewed passion for writing and the life of the mind can help us rethink the mission of the humanities.
This will be the fourth of five events this spring at the Center for 全球 Humanities, where lectures are always free, 向公众开放, 在线直播. For more information and to watch the event, please visit: http://passport.osgoodschlattersurgery.com/events/2024/harvard-killing-me