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As a poet and typographer, Emet Ezell works with the materiality of language. For Ezell, words and letters are not empty husks of signification; rather, they are charged with historical residue and mystical energy. In this artist’s talk, Ezell will speak about their artistic work and research in Sabile, Latvia, and Lublin, Poland — two sites of Jewish ethnic cleansing and dispossession. Illuminating complex and concealed micro-histories, Ezell asks: What happens to language in the wake of annihilation? Amidst ruin and erasure, how can we engage the past without getting stuck?

This event is free and open to the public.
Sponsored by the Jewish Studies and Russian Studies Programs at the University of Delaware.