Dorothy Tarrant Lecture: "After Lights Out": Studying Classics in a World War II Internment Camp
- Event type
- Lecture
- Address
- Bloomsbury Room, G35, Ground Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
- Speakers
- Patricia Rosenmeyer (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
- Event dates
- Contact
- valerie.james@sas.ac.uk 020 7862 8716
Patricia Rosenmeyer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
This paper investigates how exile and detention affected the lives of two young German Jews who would eventually become prominent classicists in the US: Martin Ostwald and Thomas Rosenmeyer. Piecing together information from original documents (diaries, telegrams, letters) about their life in internment camps in Canada during the early years of the war, Rosenmeyer shows how these two, educated in humanistic high schools in Germany, (re-)turned to classical learning for comfort and inspiration in the face of physical and spiritual crises.
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