This session was held on January 22nd, 2015. It featured the author, Anthony Marra and Russian journalist and Nieman Fellow Irina Gordienko, and was sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program. 

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This session offered the opportunity for book group participants to think more deeply about connections between book group material and their classrooms.

The session included a presentation by educator and long–time GLOBE participant Jen Dean.  

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About the presenter:
At the time of this presentation, Jen S. Dean was a student teacher at Rogers Heritage High...

This session, focusing on Autumn Quail, was hosted in January 2014 by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Note that this session was offered twice; the recording listed here was the first of two sessions.  It featured CMES Arabic Preceptor and scholar Sami Alkyam.

View a recording of the session here: http://cmes.adobeconnect.com/p9qmadl1o92/  

About the book: 
Legendary Egyptian writer and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, Naguib...

This session, focusing on Behind the Beautiful Forevers, was hosted on March 31st, 2014 by the Global Health Institute and South Asia Institute. It featured South Asian Studies Postdoctoral Fellow...

This session, focusing on Cutting for Stone, was hosted on May 7th, 2014 by the Committee on African Studies. It featured Wendy Belcher, Assistant Professor in the Princeton University department of Comparative Literature.

View a recording of the session here: http://cmes.adobeconnect.com/p7y3ulmar9v/

Accompanying Non-Fiction Reading:
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This session, focusing on Dreaming Cuban, was hosted on December 4th, 2013 by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. It featured Rainer Schultz, Fellow, DRCLAS Cuban Studies Program.

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This session, focusing on Dream of Ding Village, was hosted on February 5th, 2014 by the Asia Center. It featured Karen Thornber, Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University.

View a recording of the session here: http://cmes.adobeconnect.com/p5x31tqxlrs/

Accompanying Non-Fiction Reading:

PBS.org - China from the Inside - The Spread of AIDS in China: A slow acknowledgement of...

This session, focusing on The Dream Life of Sukhanov, was hosted on November 13, 2013 by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. It featured the novel's author, Olga Grushin.

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The story of Anatoly Sukhanov, 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...

This session on Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was hosted by the Committee on African Studies on June 5, 2013.  It featured Professor Akua Sarr of Boston College and Kristen Robinson, Ph.D. Candidate in Harvard's English Department.

Book description: From the outside, fifteen-year-old Kambili has the perfect life. She lives in a beautiful house, has a caring family, and attends an exclusive missionary school. She's completely shielded from the troubles of the world. Yet, as Kambili reveals in her tender-voiced account, things are less than...

This session on The Accompanist by Nina Berberova was hosted by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies on May 15, 2013.  It featured a discussion with Professor Julie Buckler of Harvard's Slavic Languages and Literatures.

Book description: Written right before the height of Stalin's purges by a Russian émigré living in Paris, this novella explores the tangled relationship between an opera singer, her husband, and her accompanist.  The accompanist of the title is Sonechka, an 18-year-old girl, talented but impoverished and self-deprecating by reason...