On Tuesday 3 June 2025, artist Sara Davidmann will be taking part in an event with Scholar Marianne Hirsch—Touching Photographs/Prompting Postmemories— at Wolfson College, University of Oxford.
This hybrid event is free and open to all but registration is required. Register to attend in person here or online here
Marianne and Sara will reflect on the very different ways the family photographs they inherited have shaped their work on family and cultural memory.
What do photographs from the European Jewish world before the Holocaust tell us about Jewish life and how the legacies of its destruction have shaped subsequent generations?
How do photographs carry memory? How do they prompt our own postmemories?
The discussion will be based on Marianne’s autobiographical and theoretical writing and Sara’s artistic practice