EXILE IN THE SHADOWS OF EMPIRE: Emine Sevgi Özdamar's Ein von Schatten begrenzter Raum. A lecture by CLAUDIA BREGER - Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, New York

Prof. BREGER explores political exile and authorship across cultures, and she delves into histories of displacement from the Armenian genocide to present-day decolonization struggles, highlighting the creative and ethical urgency in the face of contemporary fascism and deadly violence at Europe’s ever more unabashedly fortified borders.