What: Trinity College welcomes visiting scholar Saree Makdisi, who will give a lecture: “The Architecture of Erasure: Excavating Memory in Jerusalem.”  This event, sponsored by the English Department, is free and open to the public.  Light refreshments will be provided.

When: Thursday, October 15 ~ 4:30 p.m.

Where: Alumni Lounge, Mather Hall, on the Trinity College campus. 

Background: Saree Makdisi is an internationally renowned scholar and a professor of English at UCLA. He is the author of several books, including Romantic Imperialism: Universal Empire and the Culture of Modernity (Cambridge University Press, 1998), William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s (University of Chicago Press, 2003), and Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation (WW Norton, 2008). He has written a number of articles on contemporary events for The Los Angeles Times, The Nation and the London Review of Books, and he currently is co-editor of the journal Nineteenth-Century Literature.

This event is free and open to the public.  For more information, please contact the Manu Chandler at 860/297-2529 or by email at Manu.Chander@trincoll.edu.

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