A Civilization that Needs Metaphysics': Existentialism and Dissent in Eastern Europe
Marci Shore is associate professor of History at Yale University where she teaches European cultural and intellectual history. She received her M.A. from the University of Toronto in 1996 and her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2001. Before joining Yale’s history department, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University's Harriman Institute; an assistant professor of history and Jewish studies at Indiana University; and the Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Visiting Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies at Yale.
She is the translator of Michal Glowinski's The Black Seasons and the author of Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968, and The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe.
Her recent essays, among others, include "Surreal Love in Prague" (TLS); "Out of the Desert: A Heidegger for Poland" (TLS); "Rescuing the Yiddish Ukraine (New York Review of Books); "Rachelka's Tablecloth: Poles and Jews, Intimacy and Fragility 'on the Periphery of the Holocaust,'" (Tr@nsit Online); and "Can We See Ideas? On Evocation, Experience, and Empathy" (Modern European Intellectual History).
Professor Shore's talk is sponsored by the Center of Human Rights and the Keck Center for Strategic and International Studies.