Journalist and author Alice Hasters is a major contemporary Black German voice. Her bestselling 2019 book Was weiße Menschen nicht über Rassismus hören wollen, aber wissen sollten (What White People Don’t Want to Hear About Racism, But Should Know Anyway) led to animated public debates about race and racism in Germany. In her lecture, Hasters...
War and flight endanger the literature of affected countries. Authors struggle to survive. They are unable to write. They lose their libraries, manuscripts, pictures and other valuable objects. In response to these political and social challenges, how can we build up an archive for asylum and offer these literatures the place they serve in research?...
UCLA Professors Laure Murat and Efrain Kristal will host a talk and Q&A with Marjorie Perloff. Marjorie Perloff is Sadie D. Patek Professor of Humanities Emerita at Stanford University. She is also Florence Scott professor Emerita of English at the University of Southern California. Marjorie Perloff, author of numerous books on topics ranging from 20th...
Is it possible to be the historian of one's own family, when one already serves as its archive? What resources exist to enable this undertaking? How might one craft a story from it all? In her talk, Annette Wieviorka will discuss these and related questions, which she grappled with herself upon deciding to tell the intersecting...
Franco Baldasso is Assistant Professor of Italian and Director of the Italian Program at Bard College and co-Director of the Summer School “The Cultural Heritage and Memory of Totalitarianism” at Sapienza University in Rome. His work focuses on the complex relations between Fascism and Modernism, the legacy and memory of political violence in Italy, and the idea...
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Join us for a lecture by Carolin Görgen, Associate Professor of American Studies at Sorbonne Université, Paris & 2023 Thomas Mann Fellow When the Paris world’s fair opened to the public in the spring of 1900, California was the only U.S. state to have its own pavilion. This talk explores the photo album Californie 1900,...
This is where the cookbook differs from the cooking show. In Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1961), the omelette is not mentioned until chapter three. But this egg recipe is right in the middle of the three pilots of Julia Child’s cooking show The French Chef (1962-1973). The recipe is cheap, full of basic...
