Author: admin
Wednesday, October 17
Part 1 of 3: noon-4pm, 105b Davis Family Library
12-1:15 pm: Keynote—William B. Hart, The Past as the Small and the Mighty
1:30-245 pm: Intercultural Exchange in Pan-American and Atlantic Worlds
Brief presentations, followed by discussion.
- Richard Candida Smith
- Michele Greet
- Gabriela Pellegrino Soares
- Didier Aubert
- Daniel Silva
3-4 pm: Environmental Humanities & Ecocritical Approaches to the Atlantic World
Part 2 of 3: 4:30-6 pm, Twilight Hall
4:30-6 pm: André Aciman Reading and Talk (Twilight Auditorium, Room 101, Presented by the Creative Writing Program)
October 17, 2018
4:30pm
Twilight Auditorium, Room 101
André Aciman is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is the author of Out of Egypt: A Memoir, False Papers, Alibis, and four novels: Call Me by Your Name, Eight White Nights, Harvard Square, and Enigma Variations. He is the co author and editor of Letters of Transit and of The Proust Project. Aciman is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as a fellowship from The New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. He has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, and has appeared in several volumes of Best American Essays. He is currently working on a novel and a collection of essays. Presented by the Creative Writing Program.
Part 3 of 3: 6-9:30 pm, Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Robert A. Jones ’59 House, 148 Hillcrest Road
6:15-7:45 pm: Dinner Buffet – Music in Transatlantic Circulations
Dinner Buffet during brief presentations, followed by discussion.
- Marcos Napolitano
- Anaïs Fléchet
- Jean-Sébastien Noel
- Michael J. Kramer