BOOK TALK - Roy Grundmann and Julia Cumes: Between Fear and Hope

Between Fear and Hope: A Conversation about Displacement, Migration, and Belonging Across Eras and Continents

Online Event | Free Admission, please RSVP at the ticketing link.

Roy Grundmann, author of On Shoreless Sea: The MS St. Louis Refugee Ship in History, Film, and Popular Memory, and Julia Cumes, a photographer whose long-term project explores the lives, histories, and inner worlds of people who have crossed borders and rebuilt their lives far from home, come together to discuss the power of visual storytelling in illuminating resilience, identity, and the human search for safety and belonging. Drawing from his work on the MS St. Louis and her portrait series Invisible Threads, they reflect on how stories of displacement—past and present—shape our understanding of community, humanity, and hope.

The GEGENÜBER magazine of the Goethe-Institut in North America presents a series of online conversations with contemporary German-language authors.

Contribution from the Goethe-Institut Boston.

Event in English.

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