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Book Club on A King Alone by Jean Giono

Join us for a lively Zoom conversation on A King Alone by Jean Giono, translated from the French by Alyson Waters (NYRB). A King Alone is set in a remote Alpine village that is cut off from the world by rugged mountains and by long months when the ground is covered with snow and the heavens with clouds. One such winter,…

The Mews Book Club: Tropique de la Violence by Natasha Appanah

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Catherine Cusset is the award-winning, best-selling author of thirteen novels published by Gallimard. She taught literature at Yale between 1991 and 2002 and lives in New York City. Her novel Un brillant avenir received the Goncourt des Lycéens Prize in 2008 and her novel L’autre qu’on adorait was a finalist for the Goncourt Prize in 2016. The Story of Jane was published by Simon & Schuster in 2001 and Life of…

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L’Atelier des enfants with Magali Attiogbé

Albertine 972 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United States

Join us for a morning of readings and fun activities based on Le Collier Magique by Souleymane MBodj and Magali Attiogbé in French. The reading will be followed by an interactive collective workshop lead by Magali Attiogbé on Zoom. Children will be invited to create a lion and imagine his various emotion, chat with the author, and share their work…

Carlo Ginzburg on Dante “Reproduction/Reproduction: Approaching Dante from Afar”

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February 23: Reproduction/Reproduction: Approaching Dante from Afar March 16: Forging the People: Machiavelli, Michelangelo April 6: Montaigne, the Wave, the Diagram: Depicting Life (and Death) The University of Pennsylvania is the joint producer of this series—through the Italian Studies section of the Department of Romance Languages, and the Center for Italian Studies. Carlo Ginzburg (born 1939) has taught at the University of Bologna,…

LBI Book Club, Vol. XIII: Fanny Von Arnstein: Daughter of the Enlightenment

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Fanny von Arnstein was an important figure in the history of the Enlightenment.  Born into a wealthy Jewish family in Berlin, she married and moved to Vienna, where she founded a salon attracted politicians, artists, writers, and other prominent figures. Included in this list are Madame de Staël, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Amadeus Mozart. Hilde Spiel's biography provides "a vivid portrait of…

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Post-Socialist Rehabilitations: Disability, Race, Gender and Sexuality and the Limits of National Belonging by Kateřina Kolářová

This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar and streamed via YouTube Live. There will be no in-person event. Register here for the Zoom webinar, or tune in on YouTube Live. Please join us for an event in the Minority Inclusion and Exclusion in Soviet and Post-Communist Societies Speaker Series, a discussion with Kateřina Kolářová, Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies…

Irregular Readings: A Conversation with Anja Kampmann and Anne Posten

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NYU Center for the Humanities, Stanford University’s Division of Literatures, Cultures and Languages, and Deutsches Haus at NYU present the inaugural event of "Irregular Readings," a conversation with novelist and poet Anja Kampmann who will read from her highly acclaimed debut novel, High as the Waters Rise (Catapult, 2020), and from her poetry. She will then discuss her writing with literary translator Anne Posten who…

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L’Atelier des Enfants with Aurore Petit

Join us for a morning of reading and activities inspired by Aurore Petit’s Une Maman c’est comme une maison (A Mother is like a Nest). The reading will be followed by an interactive collective workshop led by Aurore Petit on Zoom. A mom is like a nest; a mom is like a vehicle; a mom is like a fountain…In the…