Literature News
WAMC’s On the Road Broadcasts Live from Arendt Center’s Annual Conference “JOY”
Opening the show, Donahue will speak with Bard President Leon Botstein and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities at Bard College Roger Berkowitz.
Ingrid Becker Named a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study
Becker will work on a new research project about the rise of the questionnaire—a sociological technology and ubiquitous mass cultural form—in relation to the shifting status of the question in post-1945 Anglo-American poetry.
Robert Kelly and Charlotte Mandell ’90 Write About Pierre Joris ’69 for the Poetry Foundation
“He was never jealous of anybody,” said Mandell. “He was always happy for other people's success.”
Upcoming Events
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10/28Tuesday5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Olin Auditorium
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10/28Tuesday5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Preston Theater
"Yoko Tawada's Traveling Voices": A Screening and Conversation with Son HyeJeong
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Preston Theater
Tawada Yōko is very well-known in the US, especially thanks to the translation in English of The Emissary, which received in 2018 the National Book Award for Translated Literature. Less renowned are, however, her poetry and performances playing with language, media and voices, which Son has been following around the world for the past ten years. The teaser gives a taste of them, but does not encompass their originality, nor the way they ask their audience to interrogate their sense of identity, and their pre-established conceptions of how cultural and language canons operate. Tawada's work is translingual (shifting between her two main languages, Japanese and German, and an expanding repertoire of others) and interstitial, thriving in the no man's lands between and beyond national borders -- and different forms of media production. Her games with audio and video, word and gesture, human and non-human entities (including, at times, generative AI) all converge towards one goal: to give a voice to what and who is often unvoiced.
Contact: Chiara Pavone
E-mail: [email protected]
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11/11Tuesday5:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
Rival Riverains: Joyce and Proust in ParisTuesday, November 11, 2025
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumJames Joyce and Marcel Proust met only once, at a late-night supper in the Hotel Majestic in Paris in May 1922. This lecture will revisit their brief and awkward encounter and explore what it reveals about the literary and social worlds of early twentieth-century Paris, how artistic value is created and sustained, and the contrasting experiences of exile and belonging that shaped each writer’s work.Barry McCrea is the Donald R. Keough Family Professor of Irish Studies and Professor of English at Notre Dame University. He is the author of three books: Languages of the Night, winner of the American Comparative Literature Association’s René Wellek prize for the best book of 2016; In the Company of Strangers which was awarded the Heyman prize for scholarship in the humanities; and a novel, The First Verse, which won a number of awards including the Ferro-Grumley prize for fiction and a Barnes & Noble “Discover” award.For more information, contact Prof. Éric Trudel at [email protected]
Contact: Éric Trudel
E-mail: [email protected]