Christian Tryon, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University Lecture. Free and open to the public.
Thursday, May 8, 7:00 pm.
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA Free event parking available in the 52 Oxford Street Garage Sponsored by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
Join the Committee on African Studies for a discussion of "Cutting for Stone" by Abraham Varghese, a novel which moves from India to Ethiopia to an inner-city hospital in New York through generations. This session will feature a presentation by Professor Wendy Laura Belcher, who will be joining us from Princeton University's Department of Comparative Literature....
Join the Asia Center for a discussion of Yan Lianke's Dream of Ding Village, featuring discussant Professor Karen Thornber, Comparative Literatures and East Asian Languages and Civilizations.
Join the Center for Middle Eastern Studies for a discussion of Autumn Quail by Naguib Mahfouz with CMES Arabic Preceptor and scholar Sami Alkyam.
Legendary Egyptian writer and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, Naguib Mahfouz writes about shifting experiences of authority and identity following the Egyptian revolution of 1952. Part of a three-part novella cycle exploring the historic military coup that resulted in the overthrow of Egypt's constitutional monarchy, this short work of fiction offers a rich historical lens through which to explore political transitions in contemporary Egypt.
Register now to attend this session. The first 15 K-12 educators who register will receive a free book – see instructions on registration form.
Join the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) for a discussion of Cristina Garcia's novel, Dreaming in Cuban. The session will be moderated by Rainer Schultz, Fellow, DRCLAS Cuban Studies Program.
Garcia's first book, Dreaming in Cuban is about three generations of del Pino women who are seeking spiritual homes for their passionate, often troubled souls. Celia del Pino and her descendants also share clairvoyant and visionary powers that somehow remain undiminished, despite the Cuban revolution and its profound effect upon their lives.... Read more about Dreaming in Cuban Webinar
Join the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies for a discussion of Olga Grushin's The Dream Life of Sukhanov, featuring the author herselfin conversation.
Published in 2006 and described by the Washington Post as "sophisticated, ironic and witty, multilayered, intricately constructed, deeply informed, elegantly written," The Dream Life of Sukhanov is set in the Moscow of early perestroika, a city on the brink of deep political and cultural change. It is the story of Anatoly Sukhanov, an art critic and member of the cultural elite who many years before abandoned the precarious existence of an underground artist for the perks of a Soviet apparatchik. But, at the age of 56, his perfect life is suddenly disintegrating. Buried dreams return to haunt him. New political alignments threaten to undo him. Vaulting effortlessly from the real to the surreal and from privilege to paranoia, The Dream Life of Sukhanov is a darkly funny novel.