Events: Readings and Talks
June 4, 2013, 7 pm
Cotton Tenants: A Discussion with John Summers, Adam Haslett, and Daniel Thomas Davis
McNally Jackson, New York
As the novelist Adam Haslett writes in the introduction, the never before seen material in Cotton Tenants from Agee and Evans represents “a poet’s brief for the prosecution of economic and social injustice,” as relevant today as it was then.
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Selected by Yasmine El Rashidi
June 9, 2013, 7 pm
A Tale From Baghdad
Durham Cathedral, Durham
Chirine Al-Ansary's performance at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Durham Cathedral will borrow from the tales of the Thousand and One Nights, with new anecdotes and insight from the present.
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June 22, 2013 – June 23, 2013
Philosophy as a Humanist Discipline
Wadham College, Oxford
A conference to mark the 50th anniversary of The New York Review of Books and to honour the lives, work, and legacy of Isaiah Berlin, Stuart Hampshire and Bernard Williams.
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