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The School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Royal Holloway, University of London is delighted to invite you to the keynote of the annual Postgraduate Colloquium Professor Griselda Pollock 'The Nameless Artist in the Theatre of Memory' 17 June 2013, 6pm Location Main Lecture Theatre, Founder’s Building Professor Griselda Pollock Director, Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory & History (CentreCATH) and Professor of Social & Critical Histories of Art, University of Leeds 'The Nameless Artist in the Theatre of Memory: Interdisciplinary and Ethical Challenges in the Analysis of One Work— Charlotte Salomon's "Leben? oder Theater?" ["Life? or Theatre?"] (1941-43)' As the conclusion to this year's SMLLC postgraduate colloquium, we are delighted to announce that the keynote address will be delivered by Professor Griselda Pollock. The lecture will be about Charlotte Salomon, an artist murdered at the age of 26 in Auschwitz who deposited a single work comprising 769 paintings and supplementary or rejected works totalling 1325 items with a local doctor before going into ultimately discovered hiding in the South of France. Salomon is increasingly becoming the object of interdisciplinary studies in autobiography and life-narratives, and this lecture will explore the various frames of analysis with which Professor Pollock has experimented in seeking a way to write about this unique work and the issues it has posed. Working across image, music and text at the intersection of political history and individual trauma, Salomon's project defies the categories established by the various disciplines and genres it touches to provoke both methodological perplexity and innovation. All welcome.