Vera Schwarcz, the Freeman Professor of East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University, will speak on
“The Garden of History: Art and Atrocity in One Corner of China” on Wednesday, Jan. 17, at 7:30 p.m.
in the Nott Memorial.
The talk is part of the College's Perspectives at the Nott lecture series.
Schwarcz, the author of seven books and over 50 articles, is best known for her recent studies on the
parallels between Chinese and Jewish cultural memories.
Among her books are Time for Telling Truth is Running Out: Conversations with Zhang Shenfu and Bridge Across
Broken Time, a comparison of the Jewish and Chinese cultures in what the New York Times called “at once a
scholarly consideration of Chinese and Jewish intellectual life, a poetic evocation of the wrenching
imperative of historical memory and an extraordinary personal story about uncovering family secrets.”
Bridge Across Broken Time was nominated as a finalist in history for the Jewish Book Council's National
Book Award.
A reception in Hale House sponsored by the Women's Commission and the East Asian Studies Program will follow
the lecture.