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European Voices: A Reading & Conversation with Bulgarian-German Author Ilija Trojanow
This reading and conversation with Bulgarian-German author Ilija Trojanow, moderated by editor, teacher, and translator Aaron Kerner, took place at the Boston University Castle on Tuesday, April 26, 2016. The discussion centered around Ilija's latest [...]novel, The Lamentations of Zeno (Verso Books, 2016), a literary fiction about climate disaster and a scientist imploding on a journey to the Antarctic.
Trojanow, born in Bulgaria in 1965 and brought up in East Africa, established his name as an international writer with the novel Der Weltensammler or The Collector of Worlds (2006), about the cross-cultural Victorian adventurer Sir Richard Francis Burton. Since the mid-1990s Trojanow has been prolific in a number of genres, including travel, ethnography and science fiction. He has also become a major public intellectual in Austria and Germany with provocative interventions on topics such as Islam and the West, civil rights in the age of cyber-surveillance and climate change. His imaginative writing sits at the centre of a number of defining contemporary concerns, in particular the relationship between identity, language and culture.
Trojanow is the author of more than 20 books, including Angriff auf die Freiheit (Attack on Freedom), a polemic on surveillance that he co-wrote with fellow writer Juli Zeh and published in 2009. In July, he and Zeh penned an open letter calling on German Chancellor Angela Merkel to respond to the NSA’s surveillance program. - See more at: http://www.pen.org/press-release/2013/11/08/third-attempt-pen-member-ilija-trojanow-permitted-us#sthash.CGMLZ0lk.dpuf
This year's European Voices events are organized in collaboration with the literary journal AGNI and the Goethe-Institut Boston and are taking place as part of a larger project entitled EU Futures, the aim of which is to explore the emerging future in Europe. The EU Futures project is supported by a Getting to Know Europe Grant from the European Commission Delegation in Washington, DC to the Center for the Study of Europe at Boston University.
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Who Runs Europe? A Conversation with JoseÌ Ignacio Torreblanca
A conversation with José Ignacio Torreblanca, Head of ECFR Madrid Office and Senior Policy Fellow at ECFR and in its European Power program. Sofia Perez interviews Torreblanca on the subject of his 2014 book, Who Runs Europe? Reconstructing [...]Democracy, Bringing Citizens Back In.
José Ignacio Torreblanca has been a Fulbright Scholar, a lecturer at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and a researcher at the European University Institute in Florence. A frequent radio, TV, press and journal contributor, his articles and views have appeared in Aspen Review, BBC.com, Bloomberg, CNN.com, Le Courier International, La Croix, European Voice, EurActiv, Financial Times, The Guardian, Internationale, The New York Times, OpenDemocracy, Gazeta Wyborcza, Politiken, PressEurop, Queries, Reuters, Der Spiegel and La Stampa.
In March 2015 Torreblanca was announced the winner of the prestigious Salvador de Madariaga award for journalism in Spain. He was also ranked amongst the ten most influential new intellectuals in Spain and Latin-America by Foreign Policy en español in May 2011.
This event is the third in a new series of conversations on issues pertinent to democratic politics in the US and Europe entitled "Interferences." It is organized as part of a larger project, funded by a Getting to Know Europe Grant from the European Commission Delegation in Washington, DC., entitled EU Futures, the aim of which is to explore the emerging future in Europe.
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European Voices A Reading and Conversation with Christos Ikonomou and Karen Emmerich
A reading and conversation with Greek writer Christos Ikonomou and translator Karen Emmerich. Ikonomou reads from and discusses his short story collection, Something Will Happen, You'll See (Polis Editions, 2010)—a wrenching yet optimistic [...]elegy to Greece’s working classes. The collection was the most reviewed Greek book of 2010 and the recipient of the prestigious Best Short-Story Collection State Award. It has been translated into six languages and was published in the U.S by Archipelago in March, 2016.
Christos Ikonomou was born in Athens in 1970. He has published two earlier collections of short stories, The Woman on the Rails (2003) and Something Will Happen, You'll See (2010). Described by Italy’s La Repubblica as “the Greek Faulkner,†Ikonomou writes with profound sensibility, deep humanism and astute foresight about the human condition using the Greek economic crisis as a backdrop.
Karen Emmerich's translations from the Greek include books by Margarita Karapanou, Amanda Michalopoulou, Sophia Nikolaidou, Ersi Sotiropoulos, and Vassilis Vassilikos. Her translation of Miltos Sachtouris for Archipelago was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry and her translation of Yannis Ritsos's Diaries of Exile with Edmund Keeley won the 2014 PEN Literary Award. She teaches at Princeton University.
This year's European Voices events are organized in collaboration with the literary journal AGNI and the Goethe-Institut Boston and are taking place as part of EU Futures, a series of initiatives exploring the emerging future in Europe. The EU Futures project is supported by a Getting to Know Europe Grant from the European Commission Delegation in Washington, DC to the Center for the Study of Europe at Boston University. Christos Ikonomou's visit was co-sponsored by the Modern Greek Program at Boston University.
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Lusophone Voices: A Reading & Conversation with José Eduardo Agualusa
Lusophone Voices: A Reading & Conversation with José Eduardo Agualusa. Moderated by Linda Heywood. At the Boston University Castle. Tuesday, April 12, 2016.
José Eduardo Agualusa [Alves da Cunha] was born 1960 in Huambo and is considered one [...]of Angola’s most important writers. He studied agronomy and forestry in Lisbon before starting his writing career as a poet. His novel Creole was awarded the Portuguese Grand Prize for Literature, and he recently received the U.K.'s Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in the U.K. for The Book of Chameleons. His books have been translated into more than 25 languages.
His most recent novel to be translated into English, A General Theory of Oblivion (from which he reads in this video) tells the story of Angola through Ludo, a woman who bricks herself into her apartment on the eve of Angolan independence. Published by Archipelago Books last year, the book was one of thirteen finalists for the Man Booker International Prize (awarded annually on the basis of the single book) and one of twenty-five finalists for the Best Translated Book Award (by Three Percent) of 2015.
This year's European Voices events are organized in collaboration with the literary journal AGNI and the Goethe-Institut Boston and are taking place as part of a larger project entitled EU Futures, the aim of which is to explore the emerging future in Europe. The EU Futures project is supported by a Getting to Know Europe Grant from the European Commission Delegation in Washington, DC to the Center for the Study of Europe at Boston University.
José Eduardo Agualusa's visit was co-sponsored by the African Studies Center at Boston University and UMASS Lowell.
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The Double Edge Sword of Austerity: European Governance Since the Eurozone Crisis
Speakers include: Vivien SCHMIDT, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration and Founding Director of BU’s Center for the Study of Europe; Laszlo ANDOR, Professor of European Economic Governance at the Institute for European Studies of the [...]ULB and Former EU Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion; Mario TELO, Professor of International Relations at the Université Libre de Bruxelles - ULB and at the LUISS Guido Carli di Roma, Emeritus President of the Institute for European Studies of the ULB and Member of the Belgian Royal Academy. Moderated by Daniela CARUSO, Jean Monnet Professor of European Law at Boston University
This activity acknowledges the support of the H2020 RIA research project ENLIGHTEN - European Legitimacy in Governing through Hard Times: the role of European Networks European Commission Project Number: 649456
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The Arab World Meets Europe
March 2, 2016. A reading and conversation with Elias Khoury, moderated by Jocelyne Cesari.
Khoury reads from and discusses his latest novel, Broken Mirrors: Sinalcol (Archipelago Books, January, 2016). The novel follows Karim, a Lebanese doctor [...]who has escaped the civil war by emigrating to France, as he returns to Beirut like a “criminal returns to the scene of his crime.â€
Presented by the Center for the Study of Europe at Boston University. Co-sponsored by Institute for Iraqi Studies, the Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations, the Middle East and North African Studies Program, and the literary journal AGNI. Free and open to the public. Supported in part by a Getting to Know Europe grant from the European Commission Delegation.
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European Voices: A Reading & Conversation with Hubert Klimko-Dobrzaniecki
European Voices: A Reading & Conversation with Hubert Klimko-Dobrzaniecki and Julia Sherwood. Moderated by Alissa Valles. At the Goethe-Institut Boston. Thursday, March 31, 2016.
Klimko-Dobrzaniecki is a novelist and poet who has lived outside [...]Poland for many years (formerly in Iceland, and now in Austria). He is author of Bielawa West Station (2003), Roza’s House. Krysuvik (2006), The Lunatic (2007); the novella Lullaby for a Hanged Man (2007); the novels One Two Three (2007), First Things (2009) and Bornholm, Bornholm (2011); and two volumes of poetry written in Icelandic.
Julia Sherwood was born and grew up in Bratislava, then Czechoslovakia. After working for Amnesty International for over 20 years and travelling widely in Eastern and Central Europe, she became a freelance translator in 2008. Based in London, she is editor-at-large with Asymptote, the international journal of translation.
This year's European Voices events are organized in collaboration with the literary journal AGNI and the Goethe-Institut Boston and are taking place as part a larger project entitled EU Futures, the aim of which is to explore the emerging future in Europe. The EU Futures project is supported by a Getting to Know Europe Grant from the European Commission Delegation in Washington, DC to the Center for the Study of Europe at Boston University. This event received additional support from the Polish Cultural Institute.
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European Voices in Translation: László Krasznahorkai and George Szirtes (with James Wood)
László Krasznahorkai and George Szirtes in conversation with James Wood. European Voices in Translation Festival at Goethe-Institut Boston on May 10th, 2014. Sponsored by Boston University's Center for the Study of Europe, AGNI, and the [...]Goethe-Institut, with thanks to the European Commission Delegation in Washington, DC.
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European Voices in Translation: Veronika Tuckerova reads her translations of Ivan Blatný
A reading of selected poems by Ivan Blatný in English translation by Veronika Tuckerova. European Voices in Translation Festival at Goethe-Institut Boston on May 10th, 2014. Sponsored by Boston University's Center for the Study of Europe, AGNI, [...]and the Goethe-Institut, with thanks to the European Commission Delegation in Washington, DC.
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