Hannah Arendt Center Presents

Operation Lightness with Teju Cole

TEJU COLE is a novelist, essayist, and photographer. His books include the novels Open City and Tremor, the novella Every Day is for the Thief, the essay collections Known and Strange Things and Black Paper, and a number of projects that set photographs alongside texts. He has been honored with the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Internationaler Literaturpreis, the Anisfield-Wolf Award, and the Windham-Campbell Prize, among others. He is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College from 2012 to 2015. He delivered the 2024 Clarendon Lectures at the University of Oxford. Teju Cole is currently Gore Vidal Professor of the Practice of Creative Writing at Harvard.

Learn more at hac.bard.edu/joy-2025. Registration for the conference is free to the Bard community and HAC members, so join the Center! Come for a panel or stay the whole time! 

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For more information, call 845-758-6822.

Time: 10:30 am EDT/GMT-4

Location: Olin Humanities Auditorium

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