events

Syrian artist and architect Mohamad Hafez shares a personal view of forced migration through mixed and multi-media sculptures representing Middle Eastern streetscapes and buildings ravaged by civil war. 

Novelist Elizabeth Graver will read from and discuss her novel in progress, a genre-crossing text based on the migration story of her Sephardic grandmother, whose life path took her from Turkey, to Spain, to Cuba, and finally to New York.

Join us for a reading and dialogue with author Valeria Luiselli, author of Tell Me How It Ends, which chronicles the struggle of Central American minors seeking asylum in the United States.

Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902) was not just any haiku poet. He was the inventor of haiku. 

Kristen Case will read from her new collection of poetry, Principles of Economics, followed by a reception in the Newhouse lounge.

What is girlhood? And how has it evolved since the time of Jane Austen to the present? This mini-conference will explore images of the girl in various media in the East and West from the early 19th century to the 21st.

A conversation with award-winning author and critic Samuel Delany, whose works explore Afrofuturism, LGBTQ issues, and gender theory.

Three Sisters (2012), the masterful documentary from Wang Bing, is an intimate portrait of a peasant family the ekes out a humble existence in a small village in China's Yunnan province. Discussion with director to follow screening.

Wang Bing's astonishing first film is a moving and engrossing chronicle of the slow, sinking death of the factory towns in China's Northeast Shenyang province as their aging foundries are quietly abandoned by the state.

A reading from Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, followed by a conversation with the author.