EIHS Workshop: Exile as Erasure: Reflections on Marginality

From Ovid to Hannah Arendt, the experience of exile has been reckoned with on multiple temporal and spatial scales. The phenomenon of exile has been a useful lens through which to interrogate systems of power and authority, and has helped modern scholars redefine identity. Exile, however, does not always mean a physical displacement of a people; despite being “at home,” those who live, think, and practice on the margins of society can experience isolation in one’s own domain that feels akin to exile. Join us and our graduate student panelists in a discussion of the experience of exilic marginality in native and foreign lands.

Panelists:
Tuğçe Akgül (Graduate Student, Ancient History, University of Michigan)
Melissa Itzkowitz (Graduate Student, Anthropology, University of Michigan)
Zhaina Meirkhan (Graduate Student, History, University of Michigan)
Talitha Pam (Graduate Student, Anthropology and History, University of Michigan)
Anna Bonnell Freidin (Assistant Professor, History, University of Michigan)

This event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.