Presentations

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 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.  

View a recording of this presentation.

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 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.

View a recording of the session here: http://cmes.adobeconnect.com/p19rulo7ln6/

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...