Marci Shore is Associate Professor of History at Yale University and a regular visiting fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna. She is the translator of Michał Głowiński’s The Black Seasons, and the author of Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation’s Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968, The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe, and The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution. In 2018 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship for her current book project titled “Eyeglasses Floating in the Sky: Central European Encounters that Took Place while Searching for Truth.” She is presently co-curating a Public Seminar/Eurozine forum “On the Uses and Disadvantages of Historical Comparisons for Life” (title stolen from Nietzsche).
This event is free and open to the public.
Registered attendees will receive the Zoom link via email
This event is part of the 29th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute, organized every summer by the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies (TCDS).
The Unwrinkling of Time: How Historicity Inflects a Flattened Present – Marci Shore