There are several events happening at the National Library this September. These events are all free to attend but bookings are essential. For more information, spokesperson details and to book, please visit the relevant event webpages included below.
Tracing the impacts of inter-generational trauma is a complex task, and the concept of affective postmemory (as characterized by Marianne Hirsch) is one way of conceptualising how traumatic experience is transferred. Kathy Behrendt, and others, however, have criticized Hirsch, suggesting some limits upon the use of postmemory.
Established in 2006, Japan Fellowships were supported by the H.S. Williams Trust Fund. Harold Stannett Williams (1898-1987) donated his personal collection on Japan and the West to the Library in 1978.