The Mews Book Club, hosted by Catherine Cusset, explores new tendencies in French and Francophone literature in a relaxed setting. Discussion is in French. The book to be discussed is Les Adieux à la reine by Chantal Thomas.
For this Black, Brown and Green Voices event, Dr. Miriam Nyhan Grey will be in conversation with Dr. Danielle T. Phillips-Cunningham about her new book Putting Their Hands on Race: Irish Immigrant and Southern Black Domestic Workers, which offers an important labor history of 19th and early 20th century Irish immigrant and US southern Black migrant domestic workers.
The German Film Office is pleased to present Lisa Miller’s award-winning film Country Noise as part of its monthly German Movie Nights series. Country Noise tells the story of two women searching for identity in a rural setting that is facing increasing challenges from an ever more complex world. A mix of documentary footage and amateur actors speaking in their own vernacular…