Ravit Reichman: “Toward a Labor Theory of Memory”

April 4, 2013

Thursday, April 4 at 4:00, LC 319. Theory & Media Studies Colloquium & the Yale Journal of Law and Humanities present: Ravit Reichman is the author of The Affective Life of Law: Legal Modernism & the Literary Imagination (Stanford University Press, 2009), which examines responses to trauma and war in fictional and legal texts. She is currently working on a book about the modern relation to property in literature and law. Her articles on Holocaust testimony, law & culture, colonial law, and capital punishment, as well as on writers like Albert Camus, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce, have been published in such journals as South Atlantic Quarterly, Law, Culture, & the Humanities, ARIEL, American Imago, NOVEL, and Studies in Law, Politics, and Society.

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