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Tyrants & Rebels: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon

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SPEAKERS: Rania Abouzeid, Alissa J. Rubin, and Robert Worth REGISTER FOR ZOOM LINK Three acclaimed journalists -- former Middle East bureau chief for the New York Times Robert F. Worth; award-winning film and print journalist and 2019-20 Nieman Fellow...

Alice Oswald in conversation with Teju Cole

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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...

Conversation on Covid-19 | Jill Lepore

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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...

Yiyun Li in Conversation with Claire Messud

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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...

Howie Tam

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Howie Tam earned his PhD in English at the University of Pennsylvania. His book project in progress, Rewriting Vietnam: Forms of Nationhood in Diasporic Literature, examines complex modes of national belonging, refugee cultural politics, and the Vietnam...

Delali Kumavie

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Delali Kumavie received her PhD in English from Northwestern University at Evanston in 2020. Her dissertation, “Dreams of Flight: Literary Mapping of Black Geographies through Air, Airplane, and Airport,” examines the intersection of blackness with...

Anna Jones Abramson

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Anna Jones Abramson received her PhD in English from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2016. Her current project, “The Age of Atmosphere: Air, Affect, and Technology in Modernist Literature,” traces the convergence of meteorological, affective...

Stephen Tardif

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Stephen Tardif is a Ph.D. Candidate in English at Harvard University. His research centers on the relation between literary form and self-formation in nineteenth-century British literature. Arguing that artistic creation has the performative character of...

Benjamin Woodring

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Benjamin Woodring is a Ph.D. Candidate in English at Harvard University. His dissertation examines spaces of refuge as they are imagined and represented in Shakespearean England. He investigates what a place of last resort meant to an early modern...