Joseph Conrad’s Polish-Ukrainian “Graveyard”: Memory, Mourning, and AntiColonial Resistance
Schedule
Thu Oct 24 2024 at 12:30 pm
UTC-04:00Location
411 Chapel Dr, Durham, NC 27708-9984, United States | Durham, NC
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This new library exhibit seeks to educate visitors about the little-known Polish-Ukrainian roots of the author of The Heart of Darkness. Focusing on the family photo album that the orphaned victim of Russian imperialism carried with him into permanent exile, the exhibit explores the role of early eastern European photography in commemorating acts of political resistance and mourning the trauma of collective and personal loss. In doing so, it also provides the historical background necessary for understanding the present-day military conflict in Ukraine.Exhibit curators, Ernest Zitser, Duke University Librarian for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies, and Kimberly Kresica, Archivist, MSIS 2022, UNC Chapel Hill, will explain the reasons for their re-examination of Conrad’s portable memorial to the land and people he was forced to leave behind. These introductory remarks will be followed by a guest lecture by George Z. Gasyna, Arlys Conrad Humanities Scholar, Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Program in Comparative and World Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Visitors will then be welcomed to tour the exhibit with the event speakers.
Joseph Conrad’s Polish-Ukrainian “Graveyard” can be viewed online and in the Michael and Karen Stone Family Gallery of Duke University’s David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library between October 8, 2024 and April 5, 2025.
This event made possible, in part, by the generous support of the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation Endowment Fund and Duke University’s Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies.
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