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Telling America’s Untold Story
COM professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson, author of the acclaimed book “The Warmth of Other Suns,†talks about how writing the book provided a connection to her family’s past.
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European Voices: A Reading and Conversation with Polish author Grażyna Plebanek
A reading and conversation with Polish author Grażyna Plebanek and a celebration of the publication by New Europe Books of Illegal Liasons (Nielegalne związki, 2010).
A passionate novel of unstoppable physical obsession amongst a group of [...]Brussels eurocrats, Illegal Liaisons offers a fascinating insight into the first Polish generation that is truly 'free', but struggle to know where the boundaries of that freedom lie.--Stork Press
Aspiring writer Jonathan puts his career on hold to follow his wife to Brussels, but finds himself drawn into an affair with the beautiful yet elusive Andrea. What follows is a tormenting battle between conscience and desire. Complex and compelling, Illegal Liaisons is a penetrating work of erotic imagination and a chilling portrait of the nature of love.--New Europe Books
A literary sensation in Poland, it is Plebanek's first novel to be translated into English.
Co-sponsored by the literary journal AGNI. Funded in part by the European Commission Delegation in Washington DC.
November 6, 2013
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Contemporary Perspectives Lecture Series: Carol Becker
As part of CFA's school of visual arts Contemporary Perspectives Lecture Series, Carol Becker, dean of Columbia University's School of the Arts, reads from her most recent book, Thinking in Place: Art, Action, and Cultural Production. A compilation [...]of essays, the book offers a glimpse into the author's background, beginning with her childhood, and describes how various events in her life molded her into the person she is today.
Hosted by College of Fine Arts School of Visual Arts on February 10, 2009.
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A Reading and Conversation with Attila Bartis and Clemens Meyer
Romanian-Hungarian author Attila Bartis reads and answers questions about Tranquility, his first novel to appear in English. German writer Clemens Meyer shares an excerpt from When We Were Dreaming, his story about working-class kids trying to find [...]place in Leipzig after fall of the Berlin Wall.
Hosted by Institute for Human Sciences at Boston University on April 7, 2009.
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Poetics Between Languages: The Turkish-German Experience
German-Turkish poet, novelist, and essayist Zafer Senocak has been called "the most important living voice of German multiculturalism." Born in Turkey, raised in Germany, he bridges ancient, disparate cultures in this talk. Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright, [...]Senocak's English translator, explores the crucial, complicated role all translators play - a perilous, underappreciated art.
Hosted by Institute for Human Sciences at Boston University on March 16, 2009.
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Translating a Moving Target: Poetry of a New Romania
Liliana Ursu, author of eight books of poetry in Romanian, and her translator, Sean Cotter, read and discuss Ursu's poetry as part of a post-Communism literary movement in the country. Ursu says her childhood in the city of Sibiu, where she lived [...]with her parents and then her grandparents when her family moved to Bucharest, gave her a sense of home and shelter that influences her work.
Hosted by Institute for Human Sciences at Boston University on March 26, 2009.
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The Presence of the Past
Bernhard Schlink, a lawyer by training who took up fiction writing and is best known for his best-selling novel The Reader (currently a film starring Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes) discusses his generation of Germans - those born at the tail end of [...]World War II or in the immediate postwar years - and how they approached the memory and lessons of the Third Reich and the Holocaust.
Hosted by Institute for Human Sciences at Boston University on February 2, 2009.
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Suzy Welch with Special Guest Jack Welch
Suzy Welch, author, commentator, and business journalist, discusses her decision-making philosophy, which is outlined in her newest book, 10-10-10: A Life-Transforming Idea. The 10-10-10 method examines the consequences of a decision after ten [...]minutes, ten months, and ten years and allows the decision-maker "to strategically and proactively make decisions based on values," she says.
Hosted by School of Management on April 28, 2009.
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Bud Collins, American Journalist and Television Sportscaster
Bud Collins (COM'55) - journalist, author, and television sportscaster whose career has spanned more than a half-century - is an authority on tennis, which he began covering in 1963. In his talk, he regales the audience with anecdotes from his early [...]sports-reporting days, when boxing was his beat (he covered the Muhammad Ali-Sonny Liston fights), through the 2009 Australian Open (he predicted, correctly, Rafael Nadal would beat Roger Federer).
Hosted by The Friends of the Libraries of Boston University and the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center on March 3, 2009.
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