Many to Remember - Rachel Kaufman (UCLA) with Dalia Kandiyoti (CUNY) book talk
UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies https://levecenter.ucla.edu/ https://www.facebook.com/UCLACJS https://www.instagram.com/uclalevecenter/ Many to Remember Available now: https://www.dosmadres.com/shop/many-to-remember-by-rachel-kaufman/ Rachel Kaufman (UCLA) with Dalia Kandiyoti (CUNY) Rachel Kaufman's first poetry collection, Many to Remember (Dos Madres Press, 2021), enters the archive’s unconscious to reveal the melodies hidden within the language of the past. The collection unravels Kaufman's historical research of New Mexican crypto-Jews and the Mexican Inquisition alongside the poet’s own family histories. This discussion between Rachel Kaufman and Professor Dalia Kandiyoti will explore questions of memory, transmission, media, and translation. How can poetry translate history and the rhythms and form of the archive? What are the possibilities and limitations of the poetic line in holding overlapping but distinct histories at once? Rachel Kaufman is currently pursuing a PhD in Latin American and Jewish History at UCLA. Her poetry has appeared on poets.org http://poets.org/ and in the Harvard Review, Southwestern American Literature, Western Humanities Review, JuxtaProse, and elsewhere, and her prose has appeared in The Yale Historical Review and Rethinking History. She received a BA in English and History from Yale University.
UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies https://levecenter.ucla.edu/ https://www.facebook.com/UCLACJS https://www.instagram.com/uclalevecenter/ Many to Remember Available now: https://www.dosmadres.com/shop/many-to-remember-by-rachel-kaufman/ Rachel Kaufman (UCLA) with Dalia Kandiyoti (CUNY) Rachel Kaufman's first poetry collection, Many to Remember (Dos Madres Press, 2021), enters the archive’s unconscious to reveal the melodies hidden within the language of the past. The collection unravels Kaufman's historical research of New Mexican crypto-Jews and the Mexican Inquisition alongside the poet’s own family histories. This discussion between Rachel Kaufman and Professor Dalia Kandiyoti will explore questions of memory, transmission, media, and translation. How can poetry translate history and the rhythms and form of the archive? What are the possibilities and limitations of the poetic line in holding overlapping but distinct histories at once? Rachel Kaufman is currently pursuing a PhD in Latin American and Jewish History at UCLA. Her poetry has appeared on poets.org http://poets.org/ and in the Harvard Review, Southwestern American Literature, Western Humanities Review, JuxtaProse, and elsewhere, and her prose has appeared in The Yale Historical Review and Rethinking History. She received a BA in English and History from Yale University.