Upcoming Events Apr 4, 5–6 PM The Jordan Lecture: A Reading and Conversation with Valeria Luiselli 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. Event Date: Thursday, April 4, 2019 -5:00pm to 6:00pm Apr 18, 4:15 PM Scatter and Seed: Crossing Borders in one Historical Novel of Migration 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. Event Date: Thursday, April 18, 2019 - 4:15pm Apr 25, 4:30 PM Homeland inSecurity: A Presentation by Mohamad Hafez 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. Event Date: Thursday, April 25, 2019 - 4:30pm
Past Events Mar 18, 4:15 PM Keith Vincent: Masaoka Shiki's New Haiku Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902) was not just any haiku poet. He was the inventor of haiku. Event Date: Monday, March 18, 2019 - 4:15pm Mar 13, 6–7 PM An Evening with Marlon James **this event is cancelled and will be rescheduled** Join us for a reading from Black Leopard, Red Wolf, followed by a discussion with its award-winning author Marlon James. Event Date: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 -6:00pm to 7:00pm Feb 26, 5–6 PM A Poetry Reading with Kristen Case Kristen Case will read from her new collection of poetry, Principles of Economics, followed by a reception in the Newhouse lounge. Event Date: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 -5:00pm to 6:00pm Feb 20, 7 PM, Feb 21, 4:15–6 PM Images of the Girl from West to East: From Austen to Manga 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. Event Date: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 - 7:00pm , Event Date: Thursday, February 21, 2019 -4:15pm to 6:00pm Feb 7, 5–6:15 PM An Evening with Samuel R. Delany A conversation with award-winning author and critic Samuel Delany, whose works explore Afrofuturism, LGBTQ issues, and gender theory. Event Date: Thursday, February 7, 2019 -5:00pm to 6:15pm Nov 15, 7 PM Three Sisters 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. Event Date: Thursday, November 15, 2018 - 7:00pm Nov 7, 10 AM–8 PM Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks 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. Event Date: Wednesday, November 7, 2018 -10:00am to 8:00pm Sep 27, 5–6 PM A Reading and Conversation with Min Jin Lee A reading from Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, followed by a conversation with the author. Event Date: Thursday, September 27, 2018 -5:00pm to 6:00pm Mar 6, 4:30 PM Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: A Few Thoughts on Teaching Reading If the humanities produce a will for social justice, we require large-scale mindset changes across the board: how to construct oneself and the world to participate in democracy. Event Date: Tuesday, March 6, 2018 - 4:30pm Feb 9, 4:30 PM Daniel Mendelsohn International bestselling author Daniel Mendelsohn discusses his book An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic. Event Date: Friday, February 9, 2018 - 4:30pm
