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Thank you all for an amazing year of BPL Presents! Here are just some of the highlights from our 2023 season ✨Stay tuned for announcements about 2024, and happy holidays! 📸: Gregg Richards
“On Tuesdays, Mommy took us to the greengrocers!” Watch Sharon Gordon perform a Brooklyn-set scene from Laura James's vibrant new children’s book My Mother Was A Nanny at BPL. James’s accompanying exhibit, which features her original illustrations from the book, is up in the Central Library youth wing through January 🥕🌽🥦
12/19/2023
Join novelist Ha Jin for a discussion of his latest work, The Woman Back from Moscow, at BPL on January 25. Based on pioneering stage director Sun Weishi (1921–1968), this epic novel immerses us in the multifaceted history of China’s Communist Party through the life of a remarkable woman. RSVP here: https://bklynlib.org/3RMADD0
12/14/2023
Announcing one of our first literary events of 2024! On January 30, join us for a discussion of the new essay collection HBCU Made with editor Ayesha Roscoe (NPR) and politics reporter Astead Herndon (CNN). Read more below and RSVP at the link! https://bklynlib.org/4aiArTb
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Join Greenlight Bookstore and BPL Presents for a conversation around HBCU MADE: A Celebration of the Black College Experience, edited and with a foreword by Ayesha Rascoe, host of National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition Sunday. This joyous and moving collection includes a distinguished and diverse set of contributors including Oprah Winfrey, Stacey Abrams, Branford Marsalis, Roy Wood Jr, along with other prominent and up-and-coming alumni. HBCU MADE beautifully pulls back the curtain on the lived experience of prominent graduates while also shining a bright light on the significant contribution that HBCUs have made to American culture.
This event is co-presented with Greenlight Brooklyn.
The full Q&A from October’s Center for Brooklyn History talk on A Day in the Life of Abed Salama (featuring Nathan Thrall, Masha Gessen and Abed Salama) is now available to view!
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On October 4, 2023, hosted a talk on Nathan Thrall’s new book A Day in the Life of Abed Salama, featuring Thrall, Salama, and moderator Masha Gessen. The book chronicles the aftermath of a tragic school bus accident right outside Jerusalem that killed Salama’s young son, offering a window into the injustices that shape daily life in the West Bank.
This event was co-presented with Jewish Currents, New York Review of Books, Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International.
12/07/2023
This Saturday's book launch event with Laura James has been rescheduled to next Saturday, December 16, from 4-5:30 pm. We hope to see you there!
12/06/2023
The many faces of Molière in the Park's star-studded cast at last weekend’s sold out readings of The Miser 🐍🌷
12/04/2023
We’re almost at the end of 2023! Check out what we’re offering at BPL Presents this month, from avant-garde poets in translation to stories of Brooklyn childhood to Barbra Streisand’s memoir.
11/29/2023
A special matinee performance of The Miser has been added for this Friday, December 1 at 11 am! All other performances are at capacity. RSVP here to catch this fantastic cast: https://bklynlib.org/3QTcWqM
Two weeks from today, join us for a staged reading of The Miser with Moliere in the Park, featuring a star-studded cast! RSVP and read more here: https://bklynlib.org/3MO24JC
11/29/2023
Calling all musical kids and families! Join the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and BPL this Saturday for an afternoon exploring invention, virtuosity, and exhilarating music of the Baroque era. Following the performance, stay for a Q&A with the artists. Read more at the link in our bio!
11/29/2023
Beautiful illustrations of childhood in Brooklyn from ’s book My Mother Was A Nanny are lighting up the youth wing at Central Library. Join us on December 9 for a special book launch event, featuring a reading by audiobook narrator . Read more below and RSVP at the link in our bio!
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In this new vibrant and spirited picture book, artist Laura James pays homage to her childhood in Brooklyn, Caribbean immigrants, and to her mother, a homemaker who wore many hats. Often relegated to the background, nannies and domestic workers are seldom the topic of children’s stories, yet Ms. James achieves at once a deeply personal and relatable story.
Audiobook narrator Sharon Gordon will perform a reading of My Mother Was A Nanny and Ms. James will speak about how she came to write this book and what it means to tell a children's story with big topics including economy, religion, immigration, and love. After discussion and Q & A, Ms. James will be available to sign copies of the book.
This event accompanies the exhibition My Mother Was A Nanny, located in the Central Library's Youth Wing.
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11/21/2023
On December 9, we welcome you to join us for a book launch and signing event for My Mother Was A Nanny, a children's book by author, illustrator and visual artist Laura James.
In this new vibrant and spirited picture book, artist Laura James pays homage to her childhood in Brooklyn, Caribbean immigrants, and to her mother, a homemaker who wore many hats. Often relegated to the background, nannies and domestic workers are seldom the topic of children’s stories, yet Ms. James achieves at once a deeply personal and relatable story.
Audiobook narrator Sharon Gordon will perform a reading of My Mother Was A Nanny and Ms. James will speak about how she came to write this book and what it means to tell a children's story with big topics including economy, religion, immigration, and love. After discussion and Q & A, Ms. James will be available to sign copies of the book.
This event accompanies the exhibition My Mother Was A Nanny, located in the Central Library's Youth Wing.
RSVP here and join us on the 9th! https://bklynlib.org/3sJLOTf
11/20/2023
On Wednesday, December 6, we're hosting the tenth installment of World Poetry Books and Montez Press Radio's Colloquy: Translating Avant-Garde Women. Read more below and RSVP here: https://bklynlib.org/3G3BjNx
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BPL Presents welcomes to Brooklyn the tenth installment of Colloquy: Translators in Conversation, with readings and discussion from Emilie Moorhouse, Alex Braslavsky, and Christina Svendsen on translating Avant-Garde women. The event will be moderated by Madhu H. Kaza.
Colloquy is an event series presented by World Poetry Books in collaboration with Montez Press Radio and partnering event spaces like Brooklyn Public Library and others. The series invites translators to engage with live audiences in an exploration of the art of translation.
11/20/2023
We were so lucky to welcome dancers from on Saturday, November 4 in celebration of Día de los Mu***os. Check them out in action, courtesy of photographer 💃🏽💃🏻💃🏿
11/18/2023
Two weeks from today, join us for a staged reading of The Miser with Moliere in the Park, featuring a star-studded cast! RSVP and read more here: https://bklynlib.org/3MO24JC
On October 4, 2023, the Center for Brooklyn History hosted a talk on Nathan Thrall’s new book A Day in the Life of Abed Salama, featuring Thrall, Salama, and moderator Masha Gessen. The book chronicles the aftermath of a tragic school bus accident right outside Jerusalem that killed Salama’s young son, offering a window into the injustices that shape daily life in the West Bank. During the Q&A, Salama was asked about the one thing he hopes readers take away from the book. Here is part of his response.
This event was co-presented with Jewish Currents, New York Review of Books, Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International.
View the full talk here: https://bklynlib.org/49tEsUp
11/06/2023
A few weeks ago, we hosted a powerhouse panel of artists of marginalized genders in celebration of the five year anniversary of the Pandora’s BoxX Project, moderated by project founder Grace Roselli. Photos by Gregg Richards ⭐️
11/03/2023
Happy November! Check out this calendar to see the events we’re offering this month 🍁
At our recent teach-in with Brooklyn Institute for Social Research honoring Edward Said, NYU professor Robert J.C. Young shared a memory of his time as Said’s student during the 1982 siege on Beirut. Today, on what would have been Said’s 87th birthday, we remember his commitment to reading and thinking “in a worldly way.” Like Said, may our reading always lead us to engagement with the world and the pursuit of decolonization and justice.
10/30/2023
Ensemble Pi brings their Banned Books program to Brooklyn Public Library this Sunday! Come hear classical compositions inspired by And Tango Makes Three, The Bluest Eye, and more. RSVP: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/classical-interludes-central-library-dweck-20231105
For , BPL is uplifting banned books through the Borrowed and Banned series on our podcast, our ongoing campaign, and the initiative with New York Public Library and Queens Public Library. In honor of this week, we're announcing an upcoming program with Ensemble Pi that celebrates the radical importance of banned books through music.
Banned Books is an evening-length performance of six premieres commissioned by Ensemble Pi in response to recent U.S. bills, which ban books or curtail the discussion of critical race theory, LGBTQ+ issues, antisemitism and other disputed topics in public schools and libraries. Taking inspiration from New York Times bestselling author Azar Nafisi’s Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times – a galvanizing guide to literature as an act of resistance – the concert aims to draw awareness to these oppressive practices while opening a space through music for reflection and connection. A diverse group of composers were asked to create pieces influenced by a particular banned book that resonated with them. The resulting works are Tango by Richard Brooks (inspired by children's book And Tango Makes Three), The Banned by Tamar Muskal (inspired by Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel Maus), New Kid by Laura Jobin-Acosta (Inspired by Jerry Craft’s graphic novel New Kid), Reading Nafisi by Laura Kaminsky (Inspired by Azar Nafisi’s Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times), and Praise Pecola! by Damian Norfleet (inspired by Toni Morrison’s novel The Bluest Eye).
RSVP at the link below and join us on November 5!
https://bklynlib.org/46h5xbj
This BPL Book Prize event will feature two panels featuring authors who have been shortlisted for the 2023 Prize, moderated by BPL Librarian and Prize Chair Jess Harwick.
The complete 2023 longlist and shortlist can be viewed here. See below to view the shortlist authors who are participating in this event. In November, the winners will receive a $5,000 prize. Congratulations to this year's nominees!
The panels will be followed by a short reception in the Dweck Lobby.
About the prize: Each year Brooklyn Public Library honors outstanding works of nonfiction and fiction/poetry with a prize given in the fall. Selected by librarians and library staff, who draw on their broad knowledge of literature and the many populations they serve, the BPL Book Prize recognizes writing that captures the spirit of Brooklyn, one of the most socially and culturally diverse communities in the country.
The Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize was established in 2015 by the Brooklyn Eagles, a group of young and engaged Brooklynites who are passionate about Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) and work to engage new patrons, promote the Library as a cultural center, and build a vibrant community around the resources the library offers.
The Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize is generously underwritten by the Peck Stacpoole Foundation.
10/25/2023
Some snapshots from the amazing discussion of Teju Cole's new novel Tremor on October 19, ft. Cole, Emily Raboteau, Garnette Cadogan, and more. All photos by Gregg Richards!
Two decades into the twenty-first century, the stagnation of living standards has become the defining trend of American life. Life expectancy has declined, economic inequality has soared, and, after some progress, the Black-white wage gap is once again as large as it was in the 1950s. How did this happen in the world’s most powerful country? And what happened to the “American dream”—the promise of a happier, healthier, more prosperous future—which was once such an inextricable part of our national identity?
Drawing on decades of writing about the economy for The New York Times, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer David Leonhardt examines the past century of American history, from the Great Depression to today’s Great Stagnation, in search of an answer.
To make sense of the rise and subsequent fall of the American dream, Leonhardt tells the story of the modern American economy as an ongoing battle between two competing forms of capitalism: one that envisions prosperity for most, and one that serves the individual and favors the wealthy. In vivid prose, Ours Was the Shining Future traces how democratic capitalism flourished to make the American dream possible, until the latter decades of the twentieth century when, bit by bit, the dream was corrupted to serve only the privileged few.
Ours Was the Shining Future is a sweeping narrative full of innovation and grit, human drama and hope. Featuring the trailblazing figures who helped shape the American dream—Frances Perkins, Paul Hoffman, Cesar Chavez, Robert Kennedy, A. Philip Randolph, Grace Hopper, and more—this engaging history reveals the power of grassroots democratic movements from across the political spectrum. And though the American dream feels lost to us now, Leonhardt shows how Americans—if they commit themselves to transforming the economy, as they did in the past—have the power to revive the dream once more.
10/23/2023
This Sunday, October 29, join us at for an afternoon with renowned pianist Sofya Melikan. Read more below and RSVP at this link! https://bklynlib.org/45KwYcL
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Pianist Sofya Melikyan is praised for being a “a highly sensitive performer, who always subordinates technical aspects to the rhetoric” (Remy Franck, Pizzicato) and “a musician with strong, self- confident voice” (Klassik Heute). She has been regularly presented at important venues around the world and as a soloist with orchestras including the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra, Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra of Spain, Cordoba Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony, Valencia Symphony Orchestra, New Europe Chamber Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba, Spanish National Youth Orchestra, Master Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic of Galicia, Navarra Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia Toronto, under conductors such as Adrian Leaper, Yaron Traub, Nurhan Arman, Salvador Brotons, Jaume Santonja, Yi-Chen Lin, Tigran Hakhnazaryan, among others.
Winner of numerous international piano competitions, Melikyan's performances have been broadcast by the National Radio and Television of Spain, National Radio and Television of Armenia, National Radio of Catalonia, Melbourne ABC Classic FM Radio Station, Chicago WFMT Radio station, Radio France, Deutschlandfunk Radio, Mezzo French Television Station, WDR 3 Radio Station in Germany, New York WXQR Radio Station, and many others.
Her program is a tribute to the brilliant pianist and composer Ricardo Viñes ( Lleida, 1875- Barcelona, 1943) and it explores the link and affinities between Viñes and his contemporaries, such as Ravel, Séverac, Satie, Fauré and Mompou. These works are marked by a strong poetic climate, by sonic and atmospheric research, by an admirable depth of musical narrative: qualities analysed and described in a remarkable way in Vladimir Jankelevitch's book "Présence Lointaine" on the creative universe of Albéniz, Séverac and Mompou.
10/17/2023
On Thursday, October 26 at 7 pm, join us for a celebration of the BPL Book Prize shortlist finalists at Central Branch. This year's finalists include Chen Chen, Oscar Hokeah, Catherine Lacey, Linda Villarosa, Lamya H, and R.F. Kuang.
Each year, Brooklyn Public Library honors outstanding works of nonfiction and fiction/poetry with a prize given in the fall. Selected by librarians and library staff, who draw on their broad knowledge of literature and the many populations they serve, the BPL Book Prize recognizes writing that captures the spirit of Brooklyn, one of the most socially and culturally diverse communities in the country.
This BPL Book Prize event will feature two panels featuring authors who have been shortlisted for the 2023 Prize, moderated by BPL Librarian and Prize Chair Jess Harwick. The panels will be followed by a short reception in the Dweck Lobby.
RSVP now and join us next Thursday!
BPL Book Prize Shortlist Panel Event Join Brooklyn Public Library as we celebrate the 2023 Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize shortlist finalists! This BPL Book Prize event will feature two panels featuring authors who have been shortlisted for the 2023 Prize, moderated by BPL Librarian and Prize Chair Jess Harwick. The complete 2023 l...
10/16/2023
We have two incredible events this week!
Tomorrow (Tuesday), October 17, come celebrate 5 years of the Pandora's BoxX Project, a photographic portrait series that documents and celebrates the impact of creators and art workers of marginalized genders. RSVP and read more here: https://bklynlib.org/3taCKXw
On Thursday, October 19, Teju Cole and Emily Raboteau discuss Cole's new novel Tremor: https://bklynlib.org/3tdCxCY
See you there!
Pandora’s BoxX Project: Celebrating Womxn Artists & Visionaries Pandora’s BoxX Project is a photographic portrait series that documents and celebrates the impact of womxn creators and art workers (including trans, non-binary, gender q***r, and female) who reshape how we experience art and culture. Join us as we celebrate 5 years of Pandora’s BoxX Project, wi...
10/11/2023
Naomi Klein's September talk on Doppelganger with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is now available to stream:
Naomi Klein on Doppelganger with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Not long ago, the celebrated activist and public intellectual Naomi Klein had just such an experience—she was confronted with a doppelganger whose views she ...
Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir perform at Remembering Barbara Ehrenreich, a memorial for the late, brilliant critic and champion of the working class at the Center for Brooklyn History last month.
Video by Alissa Quart
10/06/2023
For , BPL is uplifting banned books through the Borrowed and Banned series on our podcast, our ongoing campaign, and the initiative with New York Public Library and Queens Public Library. In honor of this week, we're announcing an upcoming program with Ensemble Pi that celebrates the radical importance of banned books through music.
Banned Books is an evening-length performance of six premieres commissioned by Ensemble Pi in response to recent U.S. bills, which ban books or curtail the discussion of critical race theory, LGBTQ+ issues, antisemitism and other disputed topics in public schools and libraries. Taking inspiration from New York Times bestselling author Azar Nafisi’s Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times – a galvanizing guide to literature as an act of resistance – the concert aims to draw awareness to these oppressive practices while opening a space through music for reflection and connection. A diverse group of composers were asked to create pieces influenced by a particular banned book that resonated with them. The resulting works are Tango by Richard Brooks (inspired by children's book And Tango Makes Three), The Banned by Tamar Muskal (inspired by Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel Maus), New Kid by Laura Jobin-Acosta (Inspired by Jerry Craft’s graphic novel New Kid), Reading Nafisi by Laura Kaminsky (Inspired by Azar Nafisi’s Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times), and Praise Pecola! by Damian Norfleet (inspired by Toni Morrison’s novel The Bluest Eye).
RSVP at the link below and join us on November 5!
https://bklynlib.org/46h5xbj
10/02/2023
On Saturday, October 15, 2022 Concert Artists Guild Award Winners Eleni Katz (bassoon) and Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner (piano) traverse the world with us in an international program featuring composers from France, Mexico, Germany, Poland, Taiwan, Russia, and the United States. RSVP here: https://bklynlib.org/3LJF4es
10/01/2023
Welcome to October! Click through to check out the events BPL Presents is offering this month at Central Library and beyond ✨
09/29/2023
Join us in the Dweck Center on Tuesday, October 17 as we celebrate 5 years of Pandora’s BoxX Project, with a focus on Brooklyn’s art ecosystem and the multigenerational womxn artists and cultural producers enlivening it. Artists Deborah Kass, Helen Evans Ramsaran, Aya Rodriguez-Izumi and Emily Mae Smith will engage in a lively conversation on their work and the art world as they see it, with Ivy N. Jones moderating. RSVP and read more here: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/pandora%E2%80%99s-boxx-project-central-library-dweck-20231017
Pandora’s BoxX Project is a photographic portrait series that documents and celebrates the impact of creators and art workers of marginalized genders who reshape how we experience art and culture. This program is co-organized with artist Grace Roselli, creator and photographer of the Pandora’s BoxX Project.
09/27/2023
On Thursday, October 19, award-winning author Teju Cole (Open City) and critic Emily Raboteau will discuss Cole's forthcoming novel Tremor. Co-presented with Greenlight Bookstore, BPL Presents will feature a powerful, intimate novel that masterfully explores what constitutes a meaningful life in a violent world. Read more below and RSVP here: https://bklynlib.org/3tdCxCY
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A weekend spent antiquing is shadowed by the colonial atrocities that occurred on that land. A walk at dusk is interrupted by casual racism. A loving marriage is riven by mysterious tensions. And a remarkable cascade of voices speaks out from a pulsing metropolis.
We’re invited to experience these events and others through the eyes and ears of Tunde, a West African man working as a teacher of photography on a renowned New England campus. He is a reader, a listener, a traveler, drawn to many different kinds of stories: stories from history and epic; stories of friends, family, and strangers; stories found in books and films. Together these stories make up his days. In aggregate these days comprise a life.
Tremor is a startling work of realism and invention that engages brilliantly with literature, music, race, and history as it examines the passage of time and how we mark it. It is a reckoning with human survival amidst “history’s own brutality, which refuses symmetries and seldom consoles,” but it is also a testament to the possibility of joy. As he did in his magnificent debut Open City, Teju Cole once again offers narration with all its senses alert, a surprising and deeply essential work from a beacon of contemporary literature.
Copies of Tremor will be available to purchase at the event from Greenlight Bookstore.
Nikhil Goyal, a sociologist and recent senior policy adviser for Senator Bernie Sanders, offers an examination of the school dropout crisis and failings of the social safety net.
“An incisive, compassionate description of families in a crisis not of their making, and the policy choices our country could choose to make to save their lives.” —Heather McGhee, bestselling author of The Sum of Us
Kensington, Philadelphia, is distinguished only by its poverty. It is home to Ryan, Giancarlos, and Emmanuel, three Puerto Rican children who live among the most marginalized families in the United States. This is the story of their coming-of-age, which is beset by violence—the violence of homelessness, hunger, incarceration, stray bullets, sexual and physical assault, the hypermasculine logic of the streets, and the drug trade. In Kensington, eighteenth birthdays are not rites of passage but statistical miracles.
One mistake drives Ryan out of middle school and into the juvenile justice pipeline. For Emmanuel, his q***rness means his mother’s rejection and sleeping in shelters. School closures and budget cuts inspire Giancarlos to lead walkouts, which get him kicked out of the system. Although all three are high school dropouts, they are on a quest to defy their fate and their neighborhood and get high school diplomas.
In a triumph of empathy and drawing on nearly a decade of reporting, sociologist and policymaker Nikhil Goyal follows Ryan, Giancarlos, and Emmanuel on their mission, plunging deep into their lives as they strive to resist their designated place in the social hierarchy. In the process, Live to See the Day confronts a new age of American poverty, after the end of “welfare as we know it,” after “zero tolerance” in schools criminalized a generation of students, after the odds of making it out are ever slighter.
09/26/2023
Tonight in the Dweck Center! Recent Bernie Sanders policy adviser Dr. Nikhil Goyal and New York Times columnist Michelle Goldber discuss Goyal’s fascinating new account of navigating adolescence in poverty. RSVP here: https://bklynlib.org/3swktn7
We look forward to seeing you tonight!
09/24/2023
Max Glazer returns to the Central Library Plaza this Wednesday!! RSVP at the link and get ready to dance💃 https://bklynlib.org/3t5ZiIL
Best known for his landmark work, Orientalism, and tireless advocacy on behalf of the Palestinian people, the Palestinian-American intellectual Edward Said (1935-2003) left behind a formidable body of work that anticipated many of today’s most controversial questions regarding representation, power, and the idea of tradition. Among Said’s key contributions was to articulate an understanding of artistic and literary production as sites of structural power, of culture as a sphere of activity that not only reflected the preoccupations of political domination, but paved the way for its actualization. Yet as a scholar of British literature, he was also embedded within the tradition he critiqued, refusing to cede its contents to the so-called defenders of Western civilization. Rather, Said advanced an understanding of tradition as process rather than possession, insisting on the liberatory potentiality of reading the canon against the grain.
This special program, co-presented with Brooklyn Institute for Social Research (BISR) to mark the twentieth anniversary of Edward Said’s death, offers participants a chance to explore some of his evergreen questions in a collaborative setting: What does it mean to be part of a tradition, and what claims does tradition exert on the present? How should we relate to canonical texts that advanced pernicious social and/or political agendas, and their creators? What power is bound up in artistic representation, and is there an ethical way to depict subject positions that are radically different from our own?
The program will feature introductory remarks by Mariam Said followed by a lecture by BISR faculty member, Dr. Suzanne Schneider. Participants will then have an opportunity to work through key ideas in moderated small groups before reconvening for a panel discussion and Q&A period with special guests.
09/18/2023
This Thursday, September 21 at 7 pm, we'll be cohosting a teach-in with the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research to commemorate the work and life of Edward Said. This year marks the twentieth anniversary of the passing of the great Palestinian-American intellectual, advocate and author of the landmark work Orientalism. Read more about the event below, and RSVP here: https://bklynlib.org/48n4Gr2
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Edward Said (1935-2003) left behind a formidable body of work that anticipated many of today’s most controversial questions regarding representation, power, and the idea of tradition. Among Said’s key contributions was to articulate an understanding of artistic and literary production as sites of structural power, of culture as a sphere of activity that not only reflected the preoccupations of political domination, but paved the way for its actualization. Yet as a scholar of British literature, he was also embedded within the tradition he critiqued, refusing to cede its contents to the so-called defenders of Western civilization. Rather, Said advanced an understanding of tradition as process rather than possession, insisting on the liberatory potentiality of reading the canon against the grain.
This special program, convened by Brooklyn Institute for Social Research (BISR) to mark the twentieth anniversary of Edward Said’s death, offers participants a chance to explore some of his evergreen questions in a collaborative setting: What does it mean to be part of a tradition, and what claims does tradition exert on the present? How should we relate to canonical texts that advanced pernicious social and/or political agendas, and their creators? What power is bound up in artistic representation, and is there an ethical way to depict subject positions that are radically different from our own.
The program will feature introductory remarks by Mariam Said, followed by a lecture by BISR faculty member, Dr. Suzanne Schneider. Participants will then have an opportunity to work through key ideas in moderated small groups before reconvening for a panel discussion and Q&A period with special guests.
We can't wait to welcome you to the Dweck Center this Thursday!
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