Book 7, Ep. 2 | Historical Memory with Shira Lurie
Material Girls
Rehak Hannah
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2022
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
We continue our journey through Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows with a special guest, Shira Lurie! Shira joins us to discuss historical memory in the Wizarding World. We're talking statues, stories, memorials and archives. If you enjoyed our episodes on Critical Archival Studies, Chosen One Narratives, Hauntology and Life Writing, then you'll love this episode! You can follow Shira Lurie on Twitter @ShiraLurie.
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| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome to which please, a fortnightly podcast about the Harry Potter world. I'm Marcel Cosman |
| 0:49.2 | and I'm Hannah McGregor and Marcel. Since we are talking about history today, |
| 0:55.4 | I want you to tell me about your favorite historical period in the sorting chat. Do you have a |
| 1:01.7 | favorite historical period? I feel like I really do. Okay, wait, why don't you go first? I'm going |
| 1:06.9 | to think about it because literally no one has ever asked me this question before and I want to |
| 1:12.1 | hear yours and then I'll decide whether or not I'm just going to copy what you say. |
| 1:17.6 | I mean, if you copy what I say, it's going to be really funny. I think there's a few ways of |
| 1:22.5 | thinking about this. Like, is there a period you really like learning about and reading about, |
| 1:28.7 | like you really like reading the literature from that period or like secretly, if you were ever |
| 1:33.7 | going to become a weird historical reenactment larper, that would be the period you loved. |
| 1:41.9 | Or like, if you could travel back in time, what's the period that you would travel back to, |
| 1:47.2 | which you know, for everybody who isn't a white man, it's like a significantly shorter span |
| 1:51.1 | of time than I would like, all right, that would be nice. Yeah, but I am just, I have a, |
| 1:58.0 | like, I was going to say lifelong, but truly since I was 13, maybe, obsession with the |
| 2:06.7 | ex-pat artist community in Paris in the 1930s, like 1920s and 30s. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 2:14.5 | I mean, you know this about me, right? Like, the autobiography of Alice B. Tockless was a very |
| 2:19.7 | pivotal, important text of my queer awakening. Mm-hmm. And then from there, I've read just like a ton |
| 2:27.2 | of biographies of different artists and figures from the time. And just everybody was just like, |
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