Tuesday 10 November 2015
David Vilaseca Memorial Lecture
From ‘Lives at the Limit’: histories against the grain – an unfinished dialogue with David
Speaker: Prof. Helen Graham (Royal Holloway)
Time: 6pm.
Place: Royal Holloway University of London, Picture Gallery
Professor Helen Graham discusses her forthcoming book Lives at the Limit. Its subject is Europe’s dark 20th century, explored through a set of signal lives which pass through the war in Spain (1936-39) and are transformed by it. The book’s themes of displacement and difference allow a reflection on how history can be other than a homogenising discourse or instrument of state or nation. By excavating real lives to reveal their own – and the century’s – complexity and multiplicity, history counters retrospective ideological tellings which shut down the past.
The lecture will be followed by a reception. Please see attached poster for details.