Evenings with an Author

President of ARTE Bruno Patino speaks on media consumption, human connection, and information as a public good faced with the digital age.

How is the story of fashion written? What goes into the records, and what is lost to time? A panel on the history of fabric and fabricating fashion archives.

What has gone wrong in Macron's second term, and what has gone right? Where do we go from here? In partnership with the Overseas Press Club of America, journalists convene in a panel moderated by Vivienne Walt to discuss.

Simone de Beauvoir’s lived experiences were instrumental to the development of her philosophy. Who was the woman behind The Second Sex?

How does one write one’s way out of a traumatic event? Does disaster inevitably resist narrative? Preti Taneja speaks on language, loss, and possibilities of resolution.

Bestselling author Mohsin Hamid speaks on new visions of society, the self, and others in the post-racial world of new novel The Last White Man.

Are we in a fourth wave of feminism? How can the current feminist movement be defined, if definition is possible at all? Given the current terrain, what does the future of feminism look like?

What can memoir do for global health? A personal perspective on chronic illness shows the importance of patient voices in the medical field and raises awareness for the international "superbug" crisis.

What is the relationship between migration and writing? When one’s life and legal status have been reduced to written files, what other possibilities for storytelling emerge?

Six women changed science, and were forgotten by history. Uncover the women written out of the Enlightenment with historian Nina Gelbart.

Celebrated psychoanalyst Adam Phillips discusses changing our understanding of change and getting better at talking about getting better.