Breathing in Unison: The Archive and the Senses - By Cristina Rivera Garza

Trinity Global Humanities Lecture Series 2026: Tactile: Archives, Collective Memory and Bodies

Join us for the Trinity Global Humanities Lecture Series 2026: Tactile: Archives, Collective Memory and Bodies, featuring Pulitzer Prize–winning author, translator, critic, and MacArthur Fellow Cristina Rivera Garza.

Across four thought‑provoking lectures, Rivera Garza examines the sensory, emotional, and corporeal dimensions of archival work — exploring how memory, translation, loss, and embodiment shape our encounters with the past.

Lecture Series Programme 2026

🕠 All sessions from 5:30pm -6:30pm followed by Q&A

• 29 April – Breathing in Unison: The Archive and the Senses (Winstanley Theatre)
• 6 May – Transcribir: Transcribing (Winstanley Theatre)
• 13 May – Translation and Grieving (OCR Trinity College)
• 20 May – Standing on a Mass Grave (Winstanley Theatre)

📍 Winstanley Theatre - Entrance via Whewell’s Court (across the Great Gate)

📍 OCR at Trinity College - Entrance via the Great Gate through porter's lodge

Hosted by Trinity College, University of Cambridge, in collaboration with Cambridge University Press.

Open to all!

Our Speaker

Cristina Rivera Garza is a Pulitzer Prize–winning Mexican author, historian, and MacArthur Fellow, internationally recognised for her innovative contributions to fiction, nonfiction, and critical theory. A prolific writer of nearly twenty books, she is known for her interdisciplinary approach to language, memory, gender, and the politics of the archive. Rivera Garza currently serves as a professor at the University of Houston, where she directs the Ph.D. program in creative writing in Spanish. Her recent memoir, Liliana’s Invincible Summer, received the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Memoir or Autobiography, further cementing her status as one of the most influential contemporary voices in Latin American and transnational literary studies.