The three-day
closed event is part of a preparatory workshop for No
Happy End: The German-Speaking Intellectual and Cultural Emigration
to the U.K. and U.S., 1933-1945 a conference taking place
at Bard in 2002. The workshop is open to some dozen invited specialists,
where participants will contribute brief papers in response to
the organizers' prospectus, for purpose of intensive discussion,
especially in the light of the differences among the states of
the question in Germany, Austria, Canada, and the US.
Since this
is a workshop and planning session, meetings will be held in a
conference room without an audience. The workshop's results will
be summarized in a brochure available after September 15, 2001.
A
Roundtable Discussion titled On Exile,
is part of the three-day workshop. This discussion will feature
a panel of three Bard faculty members—the celebrated authors,
Chinua Achebe, Norman Manea, and André Aciman—who have each been forced to face the challenges
of living and writing outside their native countries. Many
of the world's foremost experts on cultural and intellectual exile
will attend the discussion. The event, which will be moderated by Bard College's
Asher B. Edelman Professor of English Robert Kelly,
takes place at 7 p.m. in Olin Auditorium
and is free and open to the public.
A preliminary
overview of the No Happy End conference can be gained from
the workshop program.
To be on
the mailing list for the free No Happy End brochure please
submit the online Contact Form. Individuals
who would like to submit proposals for the conference in 2002
should send for the brochure and orient their submissions to the
terms of reference to be developed there.
