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“Clairvoyant of the Small”: A Conversation with Susan Bernofsky & Eileen Myles

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Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York present a conversation between writer and translator Susan Bernofsky and poet and writer Eileen Myles about Bernofsky's “Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser,“ the first English-language biography of Swiss author Robert Walser. In their conversation, Myles and Bernofsky will reflect on Walser's intriguing work and life, problems of…

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Women, Feminists, and Other Poets: A Series of Readings and Conversations

For the first installment of “Women, Feminists, and Other Poets: A Series of Readings and Conversations,” the Jordan Center will host Nastya Denisova, Kit Eginton, Anna Glazova, and Alex Niemi. This April, the Jordan Center will host 6 contemporary Russian poets for a series of readings and conversations. With a view to the recent anthology F-Letter: New Russian Feminist Poetry (isolarii, 2020), this…

White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea

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The era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern conceptions of freedom and democracy, was also the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. America, a nation founded on the principle of liberty, is also a nation built on African slavery, Native American genocide, and systematic racial discrimination. White Freedom traces the complex relationship between freedom and race from the eighteenth…

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