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.
Moderated by Laetitia Marie Ndiaye, Columbia University. Book synopsis: Strange signs in black paint on doors all over Paris. At first glance, one might believe the work of a tagger. Commissioner Adamsberg detects a dull threat, a hint of evil. For his part, Joss Le Guern, the Town Crier of the Place Edgar-Quinet, wonders who slips into his message box of incomprehensible announcements.
Join LBI and The Gross Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies of Ramapo College of New Jersey for a conversation with Griselda Pollock and Kerry Wallach about the work and life of the Berlin-born Jewish artist, Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943). Michael Riff, Director of The Gross Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Ramapo College of New Jersey, will moderate the event.
Open Austria Art + Tech Lab and Deutsches Haus at NYU present a conversation between renowned author Daniel Kehlmann and philosopher and AI researcher Bryan McCann, who will discuss collaborating on “AI Storytelling,” an innovative project in which they jointly explore and experiment with the process of creating new stories by working with an NLP-based (natural language processing) algorithm named CTRL.
The new Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity at the Graduate Center—CUNY launches its public programming with “In Honor of Barbara Engelking and Jan Grabowski: New Scholarship on the History and Memory of the Holocaust in Poland.” Chaired by Dr Joanna Sliwa, the program showcases a wave of outstanding young historians: Miranda Brethour, Alicja…
Tristan Garcia est né en 1981 à Toulouse. Auteur de plusieurs romans parus aux éditions Gallimard, il poursuit sa recherche en métaphysique (Forme et objet, PUF, 2011), tout en publiant des essais portant aussi bien sur l'influence de l'électricité sur notre conception de la vie, que la politique des identités (Nous, Grasset, 2016), l'éthique animale (Nous, animaux et humains, F.…
Irish crime fiction, long present on international bestseller lists, has been knocking on the door of the academy for a decade. With a wide range of scholars addressing some of the most essential Irish detective writing, Guilt Rules All confirms that this genre has arrived. The essays collected here connect their immediate subjects—contemporary Irish crime writers—to Irish culture, literature, and history.
We launched our new series on contemporary writing in 2018. Led by a prominent figure in French culture, we invite four writers every year in order to reflect and discuss on a chosen theme. These interviews will each take place on a Monday night; the following day, the invited authors will give public lectures, and their works will be integrated…