В Маркетте пройдет презентация проекта устной истории о событиях 11 сентября в Верхнем полуострове

Trending MARQUETTE -- As part of its America 250 programming, the Beaumier U.P. Heritage Center on the campus of Northern Michigan University, will present an event about the Upper Peninsula 9/11 oral history project with Anna Zimmer at 7 tonight. The event will be held in the Atrium of the Lydia M. Olson Library in Harden Hall at NMU. It is free and open to the public. Zimmer, a professor of German studies and assistant director of the honors program at NMU, will describe how her personal and scholarly journey from Stuttgart to Omaha to Washington, D.C. to Berlin and finally to Marquette, led to the development of the Upper Peninsula 9/11 Oral History Project. "While much has been written about national and urban responses to 9/11, even 25 years after the attacks, little exists about how rural or midwestern communities experienced that day and its aftermath," reads a news release. "The UP 9/11 Oral History Project, conducted in collaboration with Zimmer's Honors Program students, aims to address that gap by foregrounding regional memory, especially as shaped by geographical isolation, local institutions, and the U.P.'s Cold War military legacy. "Zimmer's research focuses primarily on 21st-century German-language literature and explores how authors employ literary representations of World War II memory to narrate memories of post-1990 violent conflicts and wars."