Professor Alistair Thomson will address the topic 'Leaving: making sense of poignant memories'.
We all have stories about leaving. Leaving is a universal human experience, though its nature and meaning vary across time and culture. This lecture will recite the leaving stories of men who went to war and women who migrated to the other side of the world. How have they told stories and made sense of leaving? Why are those stories so jagged and sharp, etched with the sounds of silence? How can historians make useful sense of poignant memories? |
