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SUMMARY:Cities of Literature Chainpoem
DESCRIPTION:On 21 March 2021\, Utrecht UNESCO City of Literature will kick off an international chain poem to celebrate World Poetry Day. Local poet Yentl van Stokkum will write the first three lines of verse. On the 21st day of each subsequent month a poet from one of the 39 UNESCO Cities of Literature will add lines of their own. Yentl van Stokkum’s contribution will be printed on a postcard that Utrecht’s booksellers will hand out to customers when they purchase a book on World Poetry Day.  \nThe theme of the globetrotting poem is ‘polyphony’. It will return to Utrecht for a visit every month\, so keep an eye on the hashtag #WPDUtrecht and follow Utrecht City of Literature on social media to read more about it. \nEach month\, we will unveil the latest verses on social media and introduce the poet and their city. Poets from the following cities will be contributing to the poem: Wonju\, South Korea; Durban\, South Africa; Odessa\, Ukraine; Heidelberg\, Germany; Edinburgh\, Scotland; Dunedin\, New Zealand; Ulyanovsk\, Belarus; Melbourne\, Australia; Manchester\, England; Bucheon\, South Korea\, and Nottingham\, England. At the end of the year\, Yentl van Stokkum will take up her pen once more to give the work a title\, and we will bring the participants together to reflect on their poetic collaboration. \nPart of the process will include translating the three lines into English every month\, so that the poets and readers can find one another in a common language. Yentl van Stokkum’s lines will be translated by poet Mia You. Audio recordings of the poets reciting their own lines will connect sounds to the words and characters. \nThe residents of the 39 Cities of Literature speak hundreds of languages\, so the chain poem will also serve as a poetic study of multilingualism and polyphony. What happens when poets from different cultures react to each other? What gets ‘lost in translation’? But above all: what happens when we listen carefully to one another? \nUtrecht has been an UNESCO City of Literature since 2017\, making it part of the global network of UNESCO Creative Cities. UNESCO created World Poetry Day in 1999 to support linguistic diversity through poetic expression\, and to give more people an opportunity to hear languages threatened with extinction. Utrecht’s contribution is just one of a vast number of activities shared with and through the UNESCO network worldwide.
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SUMMARY:QUEERING THE CITY OF LITERATURE | Zine Presentation
DESCRIPTION:For Queering the City of Literature 2020 authors Ayden Carlo\, Kalib Batta\, Roelof ten Napel and Welmoed Jonas wrote brand new texts about queer bodies and the city. Through queer literature they give you a whole new experience of Utrecht. \nThese texts are now bundled in the publication Zine and on 19 November bookstore Savannah Bay will present it festively during What You See. Not only will you hear the work of these literary superstars\, there will also be music by Kopje Onder\, designer Yasmin Katlich will share Zine’s design process and writer Anne Chris van Doesburg will reveal a tip of the veil of QtCoL 2021. And you’ll also get to take the publication home with you! \nThis event will also be streamed live. \nWant to go into the city? Follow the foot steps of the writers and read their texts in a set out walking route. Here\, you can find more info.
URL:https://www.cityofliterature.nl/en/evenement/queering-the-city-of-literature-zine-presentation/
LOCATION:Theater Kikker\, Ganzenmarkt 14\, Utrecht\, Nederland
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SUMMARY:La grande traversée poétique
DESCRIPTION:Ten poets from Utrecht will be contributing to the virtual event La grande traversée poétique\, by our colleague City of Literature Québec. The event will consist of over twelve hours of uninterrupted poetry by more than 200 international poets. Lovers of poetry will be able to discover the works of poets from different cultures from all over the world\, in the comfort of their own homes. We will be streaming the event on October the 24th on our facebook channel.\n\nInformation: quebecentouteslettres.qc.ca\n\nVisual: Nadia Morin
URL:https://www.cityofliterature.nl/en/evenement/la-grande-traversee-poetique/
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SUMMARY:Cover to cover: 'Imagined Communities'
DESCRIPTION:What makes people live and die for nations? Social scientist Dr Fenella Fleischmann explains the power of the imagined community. \n“[T]he members of the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow-members\, meet them\, or even hear of them\, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion.” \nWith this seemingly simple observation Benedict Anderson opens his now-famous inquiry into the roots of nationalism. In Imagined Communities he tries to understand why people with such different lives\, interests and needs\, nevertheless share a sense of identity and belonging. Social scientist Dr Fenella Fleischmann (UU) will discuss what Anderson’s book tells us about nationalism today. What makes people live and die for nations\, as well as hate and kill in their name? Can the imagined community be multicultural one?
URL:https://www.cityofliterature.nl/en/evenement/cover-to-cover-imagined-communities/
LOCATION:Academiegebouw\, Domplein 29\, Utrecht\, Nederland
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SUMMARY:ILFU Book Talk with Louis Theroux
DESCRIPTION:Ticket sales start on Friday morning 11 October at 10am via the website of TivoliVredenburg. It can be busy in their online ticket office and you may have to queue. Don’t refresh the page\, because this will put you right at the back of the queue again. To quicken the process we advise to make a webshop account beforehand so you can start ordering straightway. ———————————————————————————————— \nBritish documentary maker Louis Theroux will come to Utrecht for the sixth ILFU Book Talk of this year. The world-famous journalist and groundbreaking documentary maker will speak about his new book Gotta Get Through This (the Dutch translation will be published on November 15). In this book he penned his personal memoires about his career and the award-winning documentaries. After the conversation Louis Theroux will sign his book at the book stand of the Utrechtse Boekenbar. The evening will take place in the Janskerk in Utrecht and is presented in cooperation with TivoliVredenburg. \nPersonal memoires by Louis Theroux\nTwenty-five years after his first tv-appearance\, Gotta Get Through This (Geen taboe voor Theroux entitled in Dutch\, by Ambo | Anthos) is published. Louis Theroux takes the reader on a journey through his tv-career\, that started working with Michael Moore’s TV Nation\, and along the many remarkable and striking encounters he had though the years. He describes his experiences with extreme subcultures and militias in the US\, gangs in Johannesburg and with heavy drinkers in London. He also writes about his interviews with famous Brits such as TV-host Jimmy Saville\, who he admired but following disclosures about Savilles past\, was forced to see in a different light. Louis Theroux’ documentaries are broadcast in Holland on NPO3 by VPRO. \nILFU Book Talks in Utrecht UNESCO City of Literature\nFollowing the successful first two week edition of ILFU International Literature Festival Utrecht in 2018\, the ILFU organises Book Talks through the year. Great names and cutting-edge writers in Dutch and international literature enter into conversation about their latest work during the ILFU Book Talks in Utrecht. Utrecht has been a UNESCO City of Literature since 2017.
URL:https://www.cityofliterature.nl/en/evenement/ilfu-book-talk-with-louis-theroux/
LOCATION:Janskerk\, Janskerkhof 26\, Utrecht
CATEGORIES:Book Talk
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SUMMARY:ILFU Book Talk with Jeanette Winterson
DESCRIPTION:On Monday evening 4 November the British author Jeanette Winterson will speak about her latest novel Frankisstein in the fifth ILFU Book Talk of this year. Frankisstein was recently selected for the Man Booker Prize 2019 longlist.  \nJeanette Winterson’s (1959) novel Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit was her highly successful debut\, described as ‘delicate\, quirky\, funny and intricate’ (Washington Post). For this semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story of a lesbian girl growing up in an English Pentecostal community she won the Whitbread Prize for best debut. Winterson subsequently adapted the novel into a BBC television drama which won a BAFTA award for Best Drama. In 1987 her novel The Passion was awarded the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize. For her following book Sexing The Cherry (1989) she received the E.M. Forster Award. She also received an OBE for her services to literature in 2006. \nJeanette Winterson was in Utrecht before for the Belle van Zuylen lecture. This lecture has been organised since 2005 to keep the literary legacy of Utrecht’s internationally most renowned writer Belle van Zuylen alive and a source of inspiration. \nAfter the Book Talk Jeanette Winterson will sign at the book stand. Friends of the House of Literature can purchase tickets at a discount (€ 10 instead of € 15). Interested in becoming our Friend? Please find more information here (in Dutch). \nThe story of Frankisstein \nIn Brexit Britain\, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love – against their better judgement – with Victor Stein\, a celebrated professor leading the public debate around AI. Meanwhile\, Ron Lord\, just divorced and living with his mother again\, is set to make his fortune launching a new generation of sex dolls for lonely men everywhere. Across the Atlantic\, in Phoenix\, Arizona\, a cryonics facility houses dozens of bodies of men and women who are medically and legally dead… but waiting to return to life. \nBut the scene is set in 1816\, when nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley writes a story about creating a non-biological life-form. What will happen when homo sapiens is no longer the smartest being on the planet? Jeanette Winterson shows us how much closer we are to that future than we realise. \n  \n‘Only an author like Jeanette Winterson can breathe new live into a monster like Frankenstein’ –  NRC \n‘Frankusstein turns out to be an inventive fest of a novel’ – Het Parool \n‘A radical love story for right now\, from one of the most gifted writers working today’ – New York Times \n‘This reimagining of a classic shifts our view of humanity in a darkly entertaining style’ – The Guardian
URL:https://www.cityofliterature.nl/en/evenement/ilfu-book-talk-with-jeanette-winterson/
LOCATION:TivoliVredenburg\, Vredenburgkade 11\, Utrecht\, Nederland
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SUMMARY:ILFU Book Talk with Siri Hustvedt
DESCRIPTION:We are very happy to announce that the ILFU Book Talk with Siri Hustvedt will now be taking place on October 1. It is the only opportunity in The Netherlands to hear Siri Hustvedt speak about her latest novel Memories Of The Future. Power structures and the tension between memories and truth are contemporary as well as timeless themes in her new novel that was published at the end of April. Siri Hustvedt’s previous works include the international bestsellers What I Loved and The Summer Without Men. Her novel The Blazing World was nominated for a Man Booker Prize in 2014. \nIn Memories Of The Future a young woman from Minnesota\, S.H.\, moves to New York. In her new apartment she hears the bizarre and threatening monologues of her neighbour which she registers in her notebook\, together with the outlines of a novel and her other adventures in the metropolis. Forty years on and she discovers her long forgotten notes. Intrigued she decides to investigate her memories and relives the period in which her obsession for her neighbour completely dominated her life. \nHere is the review of The Washington Post about Memories Of The Future. After the interview Siri Hustvedt will sign her book. \nAbout Siri Hustvedt \nSiri Hustvedt (Northfield\, 1955) is a writer of novels\, essays\, short stories and poetry and the author of worldwide bestsellers What I Loved and The Sorrows Of An American. In 2010 Hustvedt’s memoires entitled The Shaking Woman Or A History Of My Nerves about her experiences with psychiatry were published. Her novel The Blazing World was nominated for a Man Booker Prize in 2014. Hustvedt lives in New York with her husband\, author Paul Auster.
URL:https://www.cityofliterature.nl/en/evenement/ilfu-book-talk-with-siri-hustvedt/
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SUMMARY:Cover to Cover: 'Orientalism'
DESCRIPTION:Scholar of Islamic Studies Dr Joas Wagemakers illustrates how Edward Saids Orientalism caused a fierce polemic that continues to this day. \n“[A]s much as the West itself\, the Orient is an idea that has a history and a tradition of thought\, imagery\, and vocabulary that have given it reality and presence in and for the West.” \nIt’s been three decades since Orientalism was published. In his groundbreaking study Edward Said reveals how in colonial times the Western world shaped a one-sided view of ‘the East’. Full of clichés and racial stereotypes\, it saw Eastern societies as primitive\, inferior\, and in desperate need of control. Islamic Studies scholar Dr Joas Wagemakers (UU) discusses how Orientalism caused a fierce polemic that continues to this day. Does the Orientalist mindset still exist? Can Said’s book help us understand how Muslims are being treated by Western countries today?
URL:https://www.cityofliterature.nl/en/evenement/cover-to-cover-orientalism/
LOCATION:Bibliotheek Leidsche Rijn Centrum\, Brusselplein 2\, Utrecht\, 3541 CJ
CATEGORIES:Bijeenkomst
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SUMMARY:ILFU Book Talk with Colson Whitehead
DESCRIPTION:Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead will come to Utrecht. During this third ILFU Book Talk he will speak about his latest novel The Nickel Boys that was published this month. \nBarack Obama and Oprah Winfrey are just a few of the great admirers of Colson Whitehead’s work. His novel The Underground Railroad\, a powerful story about the history of slavery\, left a deep and unforgettable impression and became an international best seller. It was also awarded the National Book Ward. Barry Jenkins\, director of Moonlight and If Beale Street Could Talk\, is adapting it into a tv-series. \nIn The Nickel Boys he refers to a more recent history\, that of the early years of the civil rights movement and he tells the story of two teenage boys in a reform school. By mistake Elwood ends up at the Nickel Academy where boys are severely mistreated\, tortured and abused. Together with his friend Jack he only has one goal: to escape from this hell. The Nickel Boys has already received five star reviews in Holland and will be published in the US on July 16. \nColson Whitehead’s books are on sale this evening at Savannah Bay’s book stand. After the Talk he will sign his books. \nILFU Book Club with Colson Whitehead \nIn the afternoon between 3pm and 5pm there will be a unique opportunity to speak with the author himself about The Nickel Boys. During this Book Club you will discuss the book in a small group of avid readers. In the second hour Colson Whitehead will attend and you can pose your questions to him directly. Tickets to the Book Club are on sale here. Please note that the first hour will be conducted in Dutch.
URL:https://www.cityofliterature.nl/en/evenement/13542/
LOCATION:TivoliVredenburg\, Vredenburgkade 11\, Utrecht\, Nederland
CATEGORIES:Book Talk
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SUMMARY:ILFU Book Talk: Valeria Luiselli
DESCRIPTION:Mexican writer Valeria Luiselli is our second ILFU Book Talk guest. She is widely regarded as one of the most innovative young authors from North en Central America. She had an international breakthrough with Faces In The Crowd (original title Los ingrávidos). Her new book Lost Children Archive was published recently and she will come over to Utrecht to talk about this impressive and widely acclaimed road novel. Tickets are now on sale now. \nThe story of Lost Children Archive \nIn this novel a Mexican-American family travels from New York to Arizona. As the family heads south\, tens of thousands of children from Central America are on their way north\, without their parents\, looking for a chance of a better life. When the children of the family disappear\, the two story lines seem to come together and become entwined. \nIn America\, England as well as The Netherlands the novel received brilliant reviews: \n‘Beautiful\, pleasurable\, engrossing\, beguiling … brilliantly intricate and constantly surprising’ James Wood\, New Yorker \n‘A mould-breaking new classic … The novel truly becomes novel again in her hands – electric\, elastic\, alluring\, new’ New York Times \n‘Fascinating\, haunting\, poetic\, engrossing … an involving and richly textured book’ Sunday Times \n‘Valeria Luiselli offers a searing indictment of America’s border policy in this roving and rather beautiful form-busting novel. Among the tale’s many ruminative ideas about absences\, vanished histories and bearing witness\, it offers a powerful meditation on how best to tell a story when the subject of it is missing’ Daily Mail  \nAbout Valeria Luiselli \nValeria Luiselli lives and works in New York. Her debut Papeles Falsos achieved a cult status and with the novel Faces In The Crowd she had an international breakthrough. The United States’ migration policy is an important theme in her work. Luiselli’s short stories and essays were previously published in New York Times\, El País and Das Magazin.  \nBelow please find the interview with PBS News Hour of March 6 about Lost Children Archive.
URL:https://www.cityofliterature.nl/en/evenement/ilfu-book-talk-valeria-luiselli/
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SUMMARY:ILFU Book Talk: Michael Ondaatje
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday April 20 author Michael Ondaatje will come to Utrecht for the first ILFU Book Talk to speak about his latest novel Warlight. This eighth novel by Ondaatje was published in 2018 (Dutch translation Blindganger (Uitgeverij Nieuw Amsterdam). The best-selling Canadian writer\, of course known for The English Patient will be interviewed in a special afternoon programme in TivoliVredenburg. \nMichael Ondaatje has published an extensive oeuvre including poetry\, scripts and non-fiction but is best known for his novels. In 2018 his most famous work The English Patient received the Golden Man Booker Prize for best work of fiction of the past fifty years. The eponymous film featuring Juliette Binoche\, Ralph Fiennes and Kristin Scott Thomas in leading roles received no less than nine Oscars. \nIn his most recent novel Warlight we follow Nathaniel in post-war London trying to put together the puzzle of his parents’ life and find out why he grew up without them\, surrounded by mysterious figures. The book received outstanding reviews describing it as equally mesmerizing as The English Patient. \n‘Our book of the year – and maybe of Ondaatje’s career.’ Daily Telegraph \n‘Warlight sucked me in deeper than any novel I can remember… fiction as rich\, as beautiful\, as melancholy as life itself.’ Observer \nLaunch ILFU Book Talks \nFollowing the successful first edition of the ILFU International Literature Festival Utrecht that took place in September 2018 the ILFU will present new ILFU events during the year starting in April 2019. In the ILFU Book Talks internationally renowned authors will be interviewed. And we are thrilled that Michael Ondaatje will be our very first guest of the ILFU Book Talks. Tickets are on sale now. Friends of the House of Literature have free access to this Book Talk.
URL:https://www.cityofliterature.nl/en/evenement/ilfu-book-talk-michael-ondaatje/
LOCATION:TivoliVredenburg\, Vredenburgkade 11\, Utrecht\, Nederland
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SUMMARY:Wildlife
DESCRIPTION:Great Falls\, Montana\, 1960s. Sensitive\, 14-year old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerry who works on a golf course. When Jerry loses his job and his goal in life he leaves his wife and child behind and joins the firemen who fight a huge bushfire at the Canadian border. Joe is forced to become the man of the house and sees how his mother starts her own adventure\, an affair with an older man. Carey Mulligan (Drive\, An Education)\, Jake Gyllenhaal (Nocturnal Animals\, Brokeback Mountain)\, Ed Oxenbould (Paper Planes) and Bill Camp (Mollys Game\, Loving) play the lead roles in Wildlife. This movie is actor Paul Dano’s (There Will Be Blood\, Little Miss Sunshine) excellent directing debut after the eponymous story by Richard Ford. \nThe film will play at the Louis Hartlooper Complex or Springhaver cinemas. Location and time to be confirmed.
URL:https://www.cityofliterature.nl/en/evenement/wildlife/
LOCATION:Louis Hartlooper Complex\, Tolsteegbrug 1\, Utrecht\, Nederland
CATEGORIES:Movie
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SUMMARY:Colette
DESCRIPTION:Colette’s true story starts when she enters Parisian high society as a simple country girls around 1900 as Henri ‘Willy’ Gauthier-Villars’ young bride\, a famous but poor writer. Bored by her new life she writes diaries full of her sexual phantasies that are eventually published under Willy’s name as a series of novels entitled Claudine. The sensual stories are a massive success and Willy and Colette become the most famous couple of France. Until Willy betrays her one day. Keira Knightley plays the leading role in this new movie by Wash Westmoreland (Still Alice). The script was written by Westmoreland together with Richard Glatzer\, his late husband and co-director of Still Alice. \nThe movie will play at either the Louis Hartlooper Complex or Springhaver cinema. Location and exact times to be confirmed.
URL:https://www.cityofliterature.nl/en/evenement/colette/
LOCATION:Louis Hartlooper Complex\, Tolsteegbrug 1\, Utrecht\, Nederland
CATEGORIES:Movie
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20181215T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20181215T170000
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SUMMARY:Musical Meet & Greet Charlotte Haesse
DESCRIPTION:Singer Charlotte Haesen commands a wide range of musical genres. A wave of enthusiastic reacties followed after her performance on Dutch national TV show Podium Witteman which showed that she should no longer be a hidden gem. Charlotte will sing for you for approx. half an hour\, talk about her newest cd and career and sign her album. Please feel welcome to join us! Entrance is free. \n 
URL:https://www.cityofliterature.nl/en/evenement/musical-meet-greet-charlotte-haesse/
LOCATION:Broese Boekverkopers\, Stadhuisbrug 5\, Utrecht\, Nederland
CATEGORIES:Musical performance
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20181206T000000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20181206T000000
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SUMMARY:The Front Runner
DESCRIPTION:Hugh Jackman is the charismatic politician Gary Hart in this movie by director Jason Reitman (Up In The Air\, Juno). The movie follows the rise and fall of this senator who stole the hearts of young voters and became the favourite to become the Democrats’ candidate in the presidential elections of 1988. His campaign however faltered when his extramarital affair with Donna Rice was exposed. Political and tabloid journalism crossed paths for the first time and Hart eventually had to withdraw his campaign. The events would have a huge and longlasting impact on American politics. Vera Farmiga (The Departed\, Up In The Air)\, J.K. Simmons (Whiplash\, Juno) and Alfred Molina (Chocolat\, Frida) can also be seen in leading roles. The Front Runner was written by Matt Bai\, Jay Carson and Jason Reitman\, based on the book All The Truth Is Out by Matt Bai. \nThis movie will play at Louis Hartlooper Complex or Springhaver. Location and time to be announced.
URL:https://www.cityofliterature.nl/en/evenement/the-front-runner/
LOCATION:Louis Hartlooper Complex\, Tolsteegbrug 1\, Utrecht\, Nederland
CATEGORIES:Movie
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20181206T000000
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SUMMARY:Kursk
DESCRIPTION:Kursk follows the drama of the K-141 submarine in 2000 and the political negligence that followed. While the marines are trying to survive\, their families are desperately trying to overcome the political obstacles. Based on Robert Moore’s book A Time To Die. With Colin Firth\, Matthias Schoenaerts\, Lea Seydoux and Max van Sydow. \nThe film is subtitled and will  at Louis Hartlooper Complex or Springhaver. Location and time to be announced.
URL:https://www.cityofliterature.nl/en/evenement/kursk/
LOCATION:Louis Hartlooper Complex\, Tolsteegbrug 1\, Utrecht\, Nederland
CATEGORIES:Movie
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20180913T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20180913T200000
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SUMMARY:Maxim Februari at University College Utrecht
DESCRIPTION:An evening with acclaimed Dutch writer and columnist Maxim Februari (1963) at UCU. This event will be in English and is open to all. \nUniversity College Utrecht welcomes the Dutch writer\, lawyer and philosopher Maxim Februari on Thursday 13 September. Februari will read from his work\, will be interviewed and will engage with the audience. The event is open to all interested.\nPart of the evening is devoted to a discussion of Februari’s The Book Club (originally published in Dutch as De literaire kring)\, a novel that begs questions about morals and virtues\, about Dostoevsky and Sex and the City\, and about how to save the world. Or should we try to save something else? The Book Club is the selected novel for One Book One Campus at UCU\, a communal reading event taking place in the Fall semester of 2018\, on the occasion of UCU’s 20th anniversary. You don’t need to have read the book in advance\, but be prepared for plot spoilers! \n19.30 Auditorium open\n20.00 Start evening\nWith live music by UCU students; drinks afterwards. \nAbout the author\nMaxim Februari (1963) is a Dutch novelist\, essayist\, and columnist. He holds degrees in Law\, Art History and Philosophy\, and wrote a PhD on the limitations of rationality in economics. He is a member of the Dutch Expert Group Aviation Safety. Currently\, he is highly engaged in the debate about datafication\, information and privacy. Two of his books have been translated into English: The Book Club (2010) and The making of a man: notes on transsexuality (2015). \nAbout One Book One Campus\nThe purpose of One Book\, One Campus is to enjoy reading together\, to stimulate conversations on current social issues\, and to enhance the social and intellectual community. The One Book One Campus format was first introduced in the US in the early 2000s\, and has become popular at many American universities. One Book One Campus at UCU is the first project of its kind at a Dutch university. \nAbout the novel\nThe Book Club is an engaging novel about the power of the elite\, about global trade and local responsibility\, and about reading fiction. 30-year old Teresa Pellikaan gradually discovers a dark secret in her village when the local book club\, chaired by her father Randolf Pellikaan\, an eminent lawyer\, is remarkably reluctant to read the bestseller of the homegrown writer Ruth Ackermann.
URL:https://www.cityofliterature.nl/en/evenement/maxim-februari-op-university-college-utrecht/
CATEGORIES:Boekpresentatie
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SUMMARY:A tribute to César Vallejo
DESCRIPTION:César Vallejo (Peru\, 1892) died in 1938. The Peruvian embassy in The Netherlands and the Instituto Cervantes commemorate the 80th anniversary of the writer’s death. \nCésar Vallejo died in 1983 on Good Friday in Paris. The Peruvian embassy in the Netherlands and the Instituto Cervantes take the initiative to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the writer’s death. On that date it will also be a hundred years ago that he published his first poetry book called The Black Heralds. The interview will be supervised by Ina Salazar.\nCésar Vallejo is the most important representative of the Avant-Garde in Peru and is seen as an important figure in Peruvian literature. He is undoubtedly one of the great figures of Spanish-American lyricism in the 20th century.\nAs Peruvian former politician Luis Alberto Sánchez says\, his poetry is “one of the most representative\, extraordinary and profound of the Spanish language”. It can be said that the work of César Vallejo during the development of poetry after the Modernismo was perhaps just as important as that of the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda or the Mexican writer Octavio Paz. \nIna Salazar teaches Spanish-American Literature at the University of Caen Basse-Normandie. \nThe program is Spanish with a simultaneous translation in Dutch. \nCésar Vallejo (Santiago de Chuco\, Perú 1892 – París\, Francia 1938)  La Embajada del Perú en los Países Bajos y el Instituto Cervantes conmemoran el 80 aniversario de la muerte del autor\, que coincide con el centenario de la publicación\, en 1918\, de su primer poemario: “Los heraldos negros”.\nRepresentante máximo del vanguardismo en Perú\, César Vallejo está considerado un personaje mayor de las letras peruanas. Sin duda una de las grandes figuras de la lírica hispanoamericana del siglo XX\, su poesía\, como apunta Luis Alberto Sánchez\,  es “una de las más representativas\, insólitas y profundas del idioma”.\n\nIna Salazar (Lima\, 1959) es catedrática de Literatura Hispanoamericana en la Université de Caen Basse-Normandie (Francia). Su actividad como investigadora se centra en la poesía hispanoamericana moderna y contemporánea y más específicamente en la peruana. 
URL:https://www.cityofliterature.nl/en/evenement/gesprek-met-cesar-vallejo/
LOCATION:Instituto Cervantes\, Domplein 3\, Utrecht\, Nederland
CATEGORIES:Bijeenkomst
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20180612T180000
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SUMMARY:Utrecht Writers' Jam
DESCRIPTION:A place for writers of any kind to hang out\, have a drink and some writing done! \nThe Utrecht Writers’ Jam is a brand new event every two weeks in the beautiful Utrechtse Boekenbar. Come along and meet other writers for a chilled out writing session in a beautiful space surrounded by books\, with a beer of coffee available. \nCome along to the Utrecht Writer’s Jam – a place for writers of any kind to hang out and get some writing done while surrounded by books inside the beautiful Utrechtse Boekenbar. \nWe’ll meet at 6\, say hello and grab a drink\, then do a few short writing exercises together. After that\, there’ll be around 40 minutes to get some writing done. This can be your own project\, or if you want some inspiration we’ll set an optional challenge for the second part of the event. \nAfter writing\, there’ll be time to grab a beer and have a chat together. It’s a nice\, chilled out space to meet other writers and talk about each other’s projects\, whether you’ve been writing for years or you’re just starting out. There are plenty of bars nearby if people want to carry on chatting afterwards! \nThere’ll even be a special discount on selected books at the Boekenbar\, just for attendees of the Writers’ Jam. \nHope to see you there! \nEnglish speaking people welcome!
URL:https://www.cityofliterature.nl/en/evenement/utrecht-writers-jam/
LOCATION:De Utrechtse Boekenbar\, Westerkade 2\, Utrecht\, Nederland
CATEGORIES:Bijeenkomst
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