Literature

Speaker: Joy Harjo REGISTER FOR ZOOM LINK The Harvard University Native American Program and the Harvard Art Museums present a reading and conversation with Joy Harjo, the 23rd poet laureate of the United States.Harjo is an internationally renowned...

Migration and the Humanities Speakers: Natalie G. Diaz, Yannis Hamilakis, Maaza Mengiste REGISTER FOR ZOOM LINK Migration seems to be a historical category of analysis with no clear beginning, middle, and end. It has allowed humanistic inquiry to re...

WRITERS SPEAK SPEAKERS: Maaza Mengiste and Namwali SerpeLL REGISTER FOR ZOOM LINK About the Speakers Maaza Mengiste is a novelist and essayist. She is the author of the novel, The Shadow King, which was shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, and was a...

Speaker: Álvaro Santana-Acuña, Whitman College REGISTER FOR ZOOM LINK Gabriel García Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude seemed destined for obscurity upon its publication in 1967. The little-known author, small publisher, magical style, and...

WRITERS SPEAK SPEAKER: Alice Oswald "With Homer" – a conversation and reading with Teju Cole REGISTER FOR ZOOM LINK Alice Oswald was trained as a classicist at New College, University of Oxford. Her first collection of poetry, The Thing in the Gap-Stone...

Speaker: Claire Messud, author of Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography in Essays Harvard Book Store's virtual event series and the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University welcome eminent novelist Claire...

Writers Speak Speakers: Mark Gevisser, George Paul Meiu Mark Gevisser's new book, The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World’s Queer Frontiers, explores how the conversation around sexual orientation and gender identity has come to divide—and describe—the...

Speaker: Karen Thornber, Harvard University Karen Thornber, Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University on her recent book, Global Healing: Literature, Advocacy, Care in conversation...

Speaker: Jill Lepore, Harvard University Jill Lepore, Kemper Professor of American History, Harvard University on her recent New Yorker article in conversation with Sunil Amrith, Mehra Family Professor of South Asian History, Interim Director, Mahindra...

Writers Speak Speaker: Yiyun Li, Award-winning Author REGISTER FOR ZOOM LINK About the Speakers Yiyun Li is the author of six works of fiction— Must I Go, Where Reasons End, Kinder Than Solitude, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, The Vagrants, and Gold...