The Literary Mews at NYU: A Day of Festivities
Global bazaar meets county fair at this third annual festival within the Festival. Discover a world of literature and music in NYU’s beautiful Washington Mews and its international houses and institutes.
All events are free and open to the public.
7:00 PM |
Prelude to the Literary Mews: Thursday, May 7th The New Salon: Poets in Conversation Yona Harvey and Afaa Weaver in conversation with Charif Shanahan. |
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10:30 AM |
Writers Workshop: Liberty in All Its Forms A poetry workshop with Véronique Tadjo. |
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12:00 PM |
Opening Panel: Discussing Diaspora Rashidah Ismaili, Cormac James, Abdourahman Waberi, Kerry Young, and others discuss their thoughts on the diaspora. |
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12:00 PM |
Outdoors: On the Mews 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM Literary Magazine and Book Fair on the Mews |
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1:00 PM |
Onstage 1:00 PM – 1:30 PM Tiga Jean-Baptiste: Sounds of Africa |
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1:15 PM |
African Musical Workshop: The Art of Storytelling through Music |
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2:00 PM |
*CANCELED* A Conversation with Jean-Christophe Rufin |
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3:00 PM |
Author Reading and Lecture: Abdourahman Waberi This lecture by Abdourahman Waberi will focus on his individual writing, translation, and the process of writing in diaspora. |
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4:00 PM |
Reading Between the Lines/Languages: Moroccan Poetry in Text, Translation, and Performance A program of readings (with translation) by Moroccan poets Idriss Aissa and Driss Mesnaoui, with commentary and critique from Omar Berrada, |
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4:00 PM |
Afro-Asian Mixtapes: Overlapping Literary Diasporas in the Caribbean A reading and listening session highlighting the literary intersections between Asian and African diasporas in the Caribbean. |
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5:00 PM |
Discussing Another Country: South Africa’s New Portraits A conversation between photographer Reiner Leist and Hlonipha Mokoena, professor of anthropology at Columbia University. |
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5:00 PM |
Poetry Reading Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Parneshia Jones, and Ladan Osman will read from their work. |
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5:00 PM |
Cormac James Launches The Surfacing Irish novelist Cormac James launches The Surfacing, his novel about a ship that is threatened by ever-hardening Arctic ice when its lieutenant |
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6:00 PM |
The Passion of Elena Ferrante Award-winning translator Ann Goldstein (The New Yorker) and NYU professor Rebecca Falkoff will discuss the anonymous Italian author, |
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7:30 PM |
Édouard Glissant: Everything Scatter, Scatter This celebration of the late Martinican writer, poet, and cultural commentator brings together Kaiama Glover, Achille Mbembe, and |
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Additional events will be presented by the NYU Institute of African American Affairs and will be announced here: as.nyu.edu/page/literarymews
The Literary Mews is presented with the support of:
The Vice Provost for Faculty, Arts, Humanities and Diversity
The Humanities Initiative at New York University
Arts & Science Dean for the Humanities
Graduate School of Arts & Science Office of the Dean
The Department of English