Events

In Tarantula, Eduardo Halfon recalls the summer of 1984, when he was twelve and travelled to a Jewish summer camp in Guatemala that turned out to be an immersive reenactment of a Nazi concentration camp. A novel of memory shards and wounds, Tarantula asks what it means to live in the shadow of history and collective violence. Eduardo Halfon is the author of fifteen prize-winning books and was a Fellow at the Columbia Institute for Ideas & Imagination in 2019-20. He will be in conversation with Thomas Dodman, Associate Professor of French and History at Columbia University.

This event is co-organized by the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination and The Hispanic Institute. It is open to the public with registration. 

Please note that Room 201 of Casa Hispánica is located in the second floor of a non-accessible building.