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Life Doesn’t Just Go On: A Hybrid Memoir of Two World Wars
15 January 2025, 5:30 pm–8:00 pm
Join us for a captivating journey through two world wars in a unique hybrid memoir.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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School of European Languages and Culture
Location
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Gustave Tuck Lecture TheatreUCL Main BuildingGower StreetLondonWC1E 6BTUnited Kingdom
This talk is based on my new book, an archival study of my family's letters, family photographs and original documents from both World Wars, and stories of the time as related by surviving family members.
The book asks how and why members of the same nuclear family--a father, a mother, a son and two daughters--responded to the Nazi era and the wars in completely different ways, and reflects on the effect of these unspoken rifts on the part of the family that survived into the post-war era.
The letters and other World War I and II documents the book is based on will be housed at the Wiener Library once I complete the book. The talk will contain a brief introduction to the project, my reasons for wanting to write it, brief excerpts from two chapters, and time for questions.
About the Speaker
Professor Susanne Kord
Emeritus Professor at UCL
Susanne Kord is a Professor Emeritus at UCL and the author of eleven books. She has written on women's literary history and reception, anonymity and pseudonyms, gender issues and violent crime, the history of antisemitism, and genre film.
She has received six major awards for her writing. Her latest book is a short exploration of Drew Goddard’s meta-horror film The Cabin in the Woods (2012), published with Liverpool University Press in 2023.
More about Professor Susanne Kord