Please join the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures for a discussion of Moving Words: Literature, Memory, and Migration in Berlin by Andrew Brandel (U Chicago) with comments from Johns Hopkins faculty members Naveeda Khan (Anthropology), Sabine Mohamed (Anthropology), Aamir R. Mufti (English), and Samuel Spinner (MLL). The event is co-sponsored by MLL, Anthropology, and AGHI. March 6, 5-7 PM, Gilman 479.

Andrew Brandel is Associate Instructional Professor of the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago and earned a PhD in cultural anthropology at Johns Hopkins University.

Moving Words: Literature, Memory, and Migration in Berlin (U Toronto, 2023)

In the decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Berlin has re-emerged as a global city in large part thanks to its reputation as a literary city. Moving Words foregrounds the many contexts in which life in the city of Berlin is made literary – from old neighborhood bookshops to new reading circles, NGOs working to secure asylum for writers living in exile to specialized workshops for young migrant poets. By attending to the everyday lives of writers, readers, booksellers, and translators, Brandel offers a crucial new vantage point on the politics of difference in contemporary Europe, at a moment marked by historical violence, resurgent nationalism, and the fraught politics of migration.

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