More than six hundred years ago, a conspiracy theory about the murder of children went viral in a brand new medium, and it has circulated in ever-changing forms to the present day, inspiring vigilantism, mob violence, and state persecution.
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…
Laurent de Sutter (born in 1977 in Brussels, Belgium) is Professor of Legal Theory at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He is the author of more than twenty award-winning books, translated into a dozen languages. He has been visiting researcher at Waseda University, Bonn University and Yeshiva University, as well as invited professor at New York University, Université Catholique de Louvain and Facultés…
Explore these interwoven trails which create a map of Irishness, yesterday, today and tomorrow. A virtual excursion, traversing land and lore, with Manchán Magan, filmmaker, travel writer and author of Thirty-Two Words for Field, (Gill Books, 2020).
What is a national writer? Individual creator and recognized representative of a collective identity, he is the embodiment of an image of the nation through his work and through his person between literature and politics. In The Factory of the National Writer. Between literature and politics, Anne-Marie Thiesse went in search of this eminent figure, obvious, and of definition however uncertain. “Literary nation” among all,…
Frédéric Gros, professeur d'humanités politiques à Sciences-po Paris, est un spécialiste de la pensée de Michel Foucault dont il a édité les derniers cours au Collège de France (1980-1984) et dirigé l'édition des oeuvres dans la Bibliothèque de la Pléiade.
Banished Children of Eve: A Novel of Civil War New York, originally published in 1995, traces that event as it gripped New York City. The cast is drawn from every strata: a likable and laconic Irish American hustler, an ambitious and larcenous Yankee stockbroker, an immigrant serving girl, a beautiful and mysterious biracial actress and her white minstrel lover as…
Pierre Bayard is best known to the general public for his essay "How to speak about books that we have not read?" (2007) where he criticizes the received idea that there is a clear border between reading and non-reading, and invites the reader to build a freer, less complex relationship with the literary text.
Loosely based on the journalist and writer Chawki Amari’s travelog Nationale 1, Hassan Ferhani’s film creates such intimacy that we feel we are sitting next to the proprietor. Through Malika's exchanges with her customers, portrait of a woman, a landscape, and even a country emerges. One hundred virtual seats available.