Joni Wallin Lämsä: ”Speaking the Pain of Others: Towards a Rhetoric of Invitational Witnessing”
- Date
- 31 March 2026, 14:15–16:00
- Location
- English Park, 6-0023 (The Danius Room)
- Type
- Seminar
- Organiser
- Department of Literature and Rhetoric
Higher Seminar in Rhetoric
Abstract:
Joni Wallin Lämsä presents the concluding part of his doctoral project on the rhetoric of secondary witnessing in contemporary Scandinavian Holocaust literature. The presentation focuses on the rhetorical conditions of a particular kind of speech act: bearing witness to the experiences of suffering and violence endured by others.