Lecture: Sanyal, "Migrations of the Plague: Albert Camus, The Concentrationary, and Terror" (2/18,)

Join us for a lecture by

Debarati Sanyal, University of California, Berkeley

Friday, February 18th
4-6pm
Nicholson Hall 125



This talk offers a discussion of Albert Camus's competing canonizations as exemplary witness to the Holocaust, as apologist of French imperialism, and as critic of terror. Through a reading of his figure of the plague and its contemporary circulation on both sides of the Mediterranean, the paper explores points of overlap and tension between distinctive legacies of historical violence when these are brought together in allegorical form.