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Writers Speak | Elif Batuman in conversation with Beth Blum

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WRITERS SPEAK SPEAKER: Elif Batuman About the Speakers Elif Batuman’s first novel, The Idiot, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and for the Women’s Prize. She is also the author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read...

Hari Kunzru in conversation with Duncan White

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WRITERS SPEAK SPEAKER: Hari Kunzru Register for a Zoom Link About the Speakers Born in London, Hari Kunzru is the author of the novels The Impressionist, Transmission, My Revolutions, Gods Without Men, and White Tears, as well as a short story collection...

Rachel Kushner in conversation with James Wood

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WRITERS SPEAK SPEAKER: Rachel Kushner Register for a Zoom link About the Speakers Rachel Kushner's first two novels, The Flamethrowers (2013) and Telex from Cuba (2008), were both New York Times bestsellers and finalists for the National Book Award in...

Between Petro-Magic and the Pedestrian

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THE ENVIRONMENT FORUM SPEAKER: Jennifer Wenzel, Columbia University Register for a Zoom link In this talk, Jennifer Wenzel suggests that the impasse of the present is determined not only by petro-magic—fairy-tale promises of wealth without work—but also...

Raymond De Luca

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Raymond De Luca is a Ph.D. candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures with a secondary field certification in Art, Film, and Visual Studies (AFVS) at Harvard University. His dissertation is tentatively titled “The Lives and Deaths of Animals in Soviet...

Catherine H. Nguyen

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Catherine H. Nguyen earned her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her project Children Born of War, Adoptees Made by War: Vietnamese Diasporic Contestations of Empire and Race investigates the Vietnamese mixed...

Nicole Eitzen Delgado

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Dr. Nicole Eitzen Delgado– from Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico–is a scholar of Latinx literary and cultural studies, nineteenth century American literature, and the literatures of the Americas. Her dissertation, Captivity Narratives Unbound: Mexican, Mexican...