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. | |
| 12:00 PM | Opening Panel: Discussing Diaspora Rashidah Ismaili, Cormac James, Abdourahman Waberi, Kerry Young, and others discuss their thoughts on the diaspora. | |
| 12:00 PM | Outdoors: On the Mews 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM Literary Magazine and Book Fair on the Mews | |
| 1:00 PM | Onstage 1:00 PM – 1:30 PM Tiga Jean-Baptiste: Sounds of Africa | |
| 1:15 PM | African Musical Workshop: The Art of Storytelling through Music | |
| 2:00 PM | *CANCELED* A Conversation with Jean-Christophe Rufin | |
| 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. | |
| 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, | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 5:00 PM | Poetry Reading Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Parneshia Jones, and Ladan Osman will read from their work. | |
| 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 | |
| 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, | |
| 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 | |
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