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Creating History: Can We Tell the Past

In Letters to Afar, a new installation at the Museum of the City of New York, personal home videos once taken for family and friends are re-presented to us as windows to the past. What can art reveal about history? How does Letters, or any artistic work, mediate the past? How does scholarship? Artists Péter Forgács (filmmaker, Letters to Afar) and Svetlana Boym (photographer, Harvard), and scholars Marci Shore (Yale), Steven Zipperstein (Stanford), and Amelia Glaser, moderator (UC San Diego) present their work and discuss how art and scholarship shape our understanding of the past. How do artists’ and scholars’ views differ from our understanding of our own histories? How do we engage with what is no longer here?











When: Thu., Oct. 30, 2014 at 7:00 pm
Where: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
15 W. 16th St.
212-294-8330
Price: $12
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In Letters to Afar, a new installation at the Museum of the City of New York, personal home videos once taken for family and friends are re-presented to us as windows to the past. What can art reveal about history? How does Letters, or any artistic work, mediate the past? How does scholarship? Artists Péter Forgács (filmmaker, Letters to Afar) and Svetlana Boym (photographer, Harvard), and scholars Marci Shore (Yale), Steven Zipperstein (Stanford), and Amelia Glaser, moderator (UC San Diego) present their work and discuss how art and scholarship shape our understanding of the past. How do artists’ and scholars’ views differ from our understanding of our own histories? How do we engage with what is no longer here?

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