Samantha Ting (PhD Candidate, Department of Comparative & World Literature, HGMS, JS) received the inaugural Dara Goldman Memorial Scholarship to present her research at the Annual Conference of the Memory Studies Association, "Memory and Democracy" (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina). Samantha’s dissertation is the first comparative study of Yiddish and Okinawan Japanese literature. Although geographically and linguistically distant, both developed in the borderlands of imperial power, confronting the legacies of Russia, Japan, China, and the United States. Their literary trajectories reveal striking parallels in how writers respond to and resist hegemonic pressures, negotiate trauma, and strive for cultural preservation within shifting political orders. While in Argentina, she will also conduct archival research in the Argentine branch of YIVO, the international Yiddisher Kultur Farband, etc.