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| Art and Graft
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25 Feb 2009 - 7:00 pm |
| Contributors: | Eva Hoffman, Richard Sennett, Chair: Jonathan Heawood |
| Notes: | Eva Hoffman and Richard Sennett, both intellectuals and musicians of the highest standard, discuss what makes the difference between a good and a great performer and the very concept of genius. They argue whether the view of the artist as superior to the craftsman is romantic idealism or reality. They consider these themes in relation to their own intellectual pursuits and explore the role and responsibility of the writer. |
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| The Outsider
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26 Feb 2007 - 8:30 pm |
| Contributors: | Julia Kristeva, Eva Hoffman |
| Notes: | ‘Between man and citizen there is a scar: the foreigner’ Julia Kristeva
The idea of the ‘foreigner’ or ‘stranger’, provides a nexus for examining the dynamics and tensions of differing cultures in contact which has long been associated with the Jewish people. A foreigner inhabits spaces both inside and out, allowing a dual perspective and it is this prerogative of exile and displacement which is both enlightening and alienating. Both Julia Kristeva and Eva Hoffman have explored the role of a foreigner or stranger within society and also within the individual.
What kind of additional perspective does displacement afford the individual? How are we strangers to ourselves? Is the Jew an eternal foreigner? And can foreigners ever be happy?
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| Book Launch
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02 Mar 2004 - 7:30 pm |
| Contributors: | David Albahari and Eva Hoffman in conversation with David Cesarani |
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| Innocence, Memory and Experience
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05 Mar 2003 - 6:15 pm |
| Contributors: | Eva Figes, Ruth Kluger, Chair: Eva Hoffman |
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| Shtetl: The History of a Small Town and an Extinguished World
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11 Mar 1998 - 8:15 pm |
| Contributors: | Eva Hoffman |
| Notes: | Author of the award-winning memoir Lost in Translation, Eva Hoffman has written widely on cultural and political subjects and worked as an editor and writer for the New York Times. Holding a Ph.D from Harvard, she has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, an award from the American Academy and Institute for Arts and Letters and a Whiting Award for writing. Eva Hoffman was born in Cracow, Poland, where she had her early schooling, emigrated to Canada with her family in 1959, and went on to study and work in the USA. |
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