Thursday 10 October, 6pm-7.15pm
Speaker: Emily Roche (IRC Post-doctoral research fellow, Department of History, Maynooth University)
Title: Structure of survival: architectural experiences of Auschwitz
Emily completed a PhD at the Department of History, Brown University and is now based at Maynooth University where she has just taken up an Irish Research Council Post-doctoral fellowship at the Department of History, under the mentorship of Dr John Paul Newman.
Emily’s research interests are Jewish history, memory and place, Polish-Soviet relations, communist aesthetics, theories of urbicide, and intellectual history. Her publications include an original translation of Władysław Azlengel’s ‘What I read to the dead’ in Jewish Currents.
Emily works on the history of architecture and war in twentieth-century Poland and is particularly interested in writing about the experiences of Jewish architects in Warsaw during and after the Holocaust. This paper offers an insight into her IRC-funded project.
All are welcome