Joy Neumeyer on her new book, A Survivor’s Education: Women, Violence, and the Stories We Don’t Tell, in conversation with Jared McBride, UCLA History.
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The Center for European and Russian Studies, in cosponsorship with the Department of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures, UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy, and UCLA Center for the Study of Women – Barbra Streisand Center, invites you to a book talk with Joy Neumeyer to discuss her book, A Survivor’s Education: Women, Violence, and the Stories We Don’t Tell (2024). The talk will be followed by discussion with Professor Jared McBride, UCLA Department of History. This book talk will take place at Bunche Hall Room 10383 on October 30th at 4 PM. Register now!
About the Book
In this poignant self-investigation, historian and journalist Joy Neumeyer explores how violence against women is portrayed, perceived, and adjudicated today. Interweaving the harrowing account of the abuse she experienced as a graduate student at Berkeley with those of others who faced violence on campus and beyond, Neumeyer offers a startling look at how the hotly-debated Title IX system has altered university politics and culture, and uncovers the willful misremembrance that enables misconduct on scales large and small. Deeply researched, daringly inquisitive, and resonant for our times, A Survivor’s Education reveals the entanglement of storytelling, abuse, and power–and how we can balance narrative and evidence in our attempts to determine what “really” happened.
About the Author
Joy Neumeyer is a journalist and historian of Russia and Eastern Europe. She received a PhD in History from the University of California, Berkeley and was a Fulbright Fellow in Russia and a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. She has also worked as a reporter in Moscow and Warsaw. Her writing has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Nation, Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, New Left Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Aeon, The Baffler, Vice, ARTNews, the Guardian, Tablet Magazine, The Moscow Times, Calvert Journal, and Cat Fancy.
Her first book, A Survivor’s Education: Women, Violence, and the Stories We Don’t Tell—an investigative memoir about abuse and the tension between narrative and evidence in understanding the past—was released on August 20, 2024 by PublicAffairs.
About the Discussant
Jared McBride is a historian who examines Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe in the 20th century with a focus on nationalist movements, mass violence, interethnic conflict, and war crimes prosecution, related to both the Second World War and Cold War periods. He also has a strong interest in the politics of archival research and access to freedom of information. His research has been supported by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the Fulbright-Hays Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council, among others, and he has published in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Journal of Genocide Research, The Carl Beck Papers, Ab Imperio, Kritika, and Slavic Review.
Prior to starting at UCLA, Dr. McBride held post-doctoral positions at Columbia University, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Kennan Institute, and USC’s Shoah Foundation. Over the past five years, he has directed and instructed “Political Violence in the Modern World,” a year-long Cluster course that one thousand first-year students have completed at UCLA. He also teaches courses on the Soviet Union, 20th century Eastern Europe, the Second World War, and on History and Film. Presently, he is completing a book manuscript concerning interethnic violence and local perpetrators in Nazi-occupied western Ukraine. Dr. McBride is available for media inquiries concerning Ukraine and Russia.
Venue
Bunche Hall 10383
(10th floor of Bunche Hall)
315 Portola Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Parking
Parking Structure 5 is closest to the event venue. Parking Structure 5 is accessible from Royce Drive, south of Sunset Boulevard, and west of Hilgard Ave. (in the northeast section of the campus). Alternatively, Parking Structure 4 is also close to the venue and has Pay-By-Space Visitor Parking available. Guest drop/Ride-share drop off is closest at the turnaround at the front of Royce Hall located at: 10745 Dickson Court, Los Angeles, CA 90095. Accessible parking: If you have accessibility needs, you may park in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area on the rooftop (level 5) of this structure, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station machine to pay by credit card.
Related Document: Joy-Neumeyer-Flyer-rf-byf.pdf
Sponsor(s): Center for European and Russian Studies, Department of Slavic, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures, UCLA Center for the Study of Women, Department of History, UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy
