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Thursday, October 27, 2022
Heinz History Center
2:00 PM EDT
Learn how to develop your memoir writing craft with Edvige Giunta, a seasoned narrative memoir writer and professor.
Memoirs hold the key to time travel. A letter, a dish, an item of furniture, a door, a street, a face, a gesture, a smell, a sound, a touch—anything conjured through memory can become a passport for traveling into the past, for crossing the divide between the living and the dead. In immigrant memory, whether one is a recent immigrant or the descendant of immigrants, these crossings are part of an invaluable project of recovery, reclamation, rewriting, and understanding.
Through prompts that cross temporal borders and break geographical and identity boundaries, this generative workshop will lead participants to lands where the unexpected and the forgotten appear on the page, where we speak to ghosts and, listening intently, become their scribes.
This memoir workshop is offered in conjunction with the Italian American Studies Association and the University of Pittsburgh.
Note Bene: Speaker is remote, audience is in-person. Workshop attendees will get to explore collections from the Heinz History Center’s archive, including letters, photographs, immigration documents, and newspapers.
After you register for this program, you will be provided with a discount code to use if you would like to register for our other conference workshop, Mining the Diaspora: How to Use the Library & Archives, at a reduced price.
Thank you for registering for the The Living and the Dead: A Memoir Workshop with Edvige Giunta.
We're looking forward to having you join us on Thursday, October 27, 2022 at 2:00 PM EDT. The workshop will be held in the History Center’s Detre Library & Archives on the museum’s sixth floor.
If you have any questions before the event, please contact Melissa E. Marinaro at memarinaro@heinzhistorycenter.org or 412-454-6426.
If you would like to register for our other conference workshop, Mining the Diaspora: How to Use the Library & Archives, at a reduced price, please register online and use the discount code IASAOCTOBER at checkout.