Akil Kumarasamy appears in conversation with writer Dinaw Mengestu to discuss her debut novel, Meet Us by the Roaring Sea: a story of memory, loss, language, shared love, and shared suffering between bodies.
Meeting three of Critical Conversations, an expert-led discussion series that allows Library members to ponder the most important issues of our time. This season: a reflection on how to lead a contemplative, vital, and unmediated life in an ever-faster digital world.
Celebrated author Jean D’Amérique, lauded one of the most prominent voices in contemporary Haitian literature, speaks on his debut novel, A Sun to be Sewn.
As humanity encounters an increasing number of threats, an increased public understanding of science will be crucial to our continued existence.
Robert G. O’Meally and Courtney Bryan speak about Such Sweet Thunder and Shakespearean jazz. A conversation at Reid Hall organized in collaboration with Columbia Global Centers | Paris and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination.
Fifteen years after the publication of seminal work Chinongwa, author Lucy Mushita reflects with journalist Kidi Bebey upon the state of Zimbabwe at the time of writing and today.
What does it mean to say that “form follows fuel”? Historian Barnabas Calder speaks about the relationship between energy and architecture.
Meeting one of Ecologues, a series of interactive webinars featuring experts on various aspects of the environmental crisis. Organized in partnership with News Decoder and the Climate Academy at the European School of Brussels.
Experience Britain through the eyes of its artists as they look out to sea and look inward upon their nation with author Lily Le Brun.
Novelist Toni Ann Johnson speaks with actor and writer Robinne Lee about fractured families and the wounds of racism in the context of new work, Light Skin Gone to Waste.
President of the Bibliothèque nationale de France Laurence Engel speaks with journalist Elaine Sciolino about the role of the library in France’s intellectual history, present, and future.
From secret desires and multiple partners to trauma and damage wrought by racist, patriarchal societies, author and activist Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah breaks the silence on sexuality.
