Public lecture by Professor Neil Hertz, Johns Hopkins University: Pastoral in Palestine

23 Apr 2014 - 16:00 / 23 Apr 2014 - 18:00

Northrop Frye Hall, Room 119
Victoria University, 73 Queen’s Park Crescent
Toronto

In 2011 and again in 2013, Neil Hertz lived in Ramallah, in Palestine’s West Bank and taught at Al-Quds University in Abu Dis, just outside Jerusalem.  With “Pastoral in Palestine” he offers a personal take on life in the Occupied Territories and East Jerusalem, reporting on how people on both sides of the increasingly bizarre frontier have come to terms with what they refer to, hopelessly, as “The Situation.”

Neil Hertz taught literature at Cornell University and Johns Hopkins University until his retirement in 2005.  In addition to his pamphlet Pastoral in Palestine (2013) he is the author of The End of the Line (1985) and George Eliot’s Pulse (2003).  He lives in Ithaca, New York.

…

This event is organized by the Centre for Comparative Literature

and co-sponsored by:
The Department of English
The Latin American Studies Program
and The Department of Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations