The Roaring 80’s: China’s Rising Indie Filmmakers
China has been on the spotlight for its rapid urbanization and tremendous economic growth. Big cities form a major theme in the mainstream Chinese...
Zhao Mengfu: Crown Jewel of the Yuan Literati
Online lecture. Zhao Mengfu (1254-1322), legendary painter, poet, calligrapher and seal maker of the early Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368), is considered as...
Susan Coll Presents Bookish People, in conversation with Julie Klam
Reading. A perfect storm of comedic proportions erupts in a DC bookstore over the course of one soggy summer week--narrated by two very different...
New York City Poetry Festival
Free weekend of readings, workshops, open mics, installations, performances, writing activities, bookselling, children’s...
Amit Chaudhuri Presents Sojourn, in convesation with Charles Bernstein
Reading. In this haunting and noirish novel by a leading author and critic, an Indian writer travels to Berlin and soon finds himself slipping into a...
Dipo Faloyin Presents Africa Is Not a Country in conversation with Abdi Iftin
Reading. So often, Africa has been depicted simplistically as a uniform land of famines and safaris, poverty and strife, stripped of all nuance. In...
“Researchers Remember” Book Talk
For descendants of Holocaust survivors who became researchers and scholars, whether they devoted their professional lives to the Holocaust or to...
“Wartime North Africa” Book Talk
Professor Sarah Stein has spent a decade seeking out people who experienced fascist rule in Vichy-controlled Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia,...
Shaunna J. Edwards and Alyson Richman Present The Thread Collectors
Reading. Registration required. 1863: In a small Creole cottage in New Orleans, an ingenious young Black woman named Stella embroiders intricate maps...
From WWII to the Space Race: The Story of Project Paperclip
Between 1945 and the 1960s, the United States government brought more than 1,500 German scientists and engineers into the country through Project...
