World Literature Lecture Series

Join us for a series of lectures on authors from around the world, presented by faculty from CU Boulder and Boulder area literati!

This lecture series is FREE and open to everybody! Please register in advance. Refreshments will be served. *Authors will not be present at the lectures in this series*

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Dominique Goblet is a Belgian visual artist, illustrator and pioneer of the European graphic novel. Involved from the start in the creation of the experimental-comics publisher Frémok, she published several books with them. At the same time she worked with the Parisian publishing house L'Association and published two books with them, including Pretending Is Lying. In a series of dazzling fragments--skipping through time, and from raw, slashing color to delicate black-and-white--Pretending Is Lying examines the most important relationships in Goblet's life: with her partner, Guy Marc; with her daughter, Nikita; and with her parents.

Presented by Catherine Labio, Associate Professor of English

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Olivia Wenzel is a performer, cultural scientist, musician and author. She was born in Weimar, Germany, and now lives in Berlin. Her plays have been performed at numerous theaters. Her novel 1,000 Coils of Fear was published in 2020. 1,000 Coils of Fear is a multilayered and rhythmic debut novel about a Black German woman living in Berlin and New York during the chaos of the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Presented by Adrienne Merritt, Assistant Professor of German

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Haruki Murakami is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold millions of copies outside Japan. His work spans genres including science fiction, fantasy, and crime fiction, and has become known for his use of magical realist elements.

This lecture will focus on After the Quake. Set at the time of the catastrophic 1995 Kobe earthquake, the mesmerizing stories in After the Quake are as haunting as dreams and as potent as oracles.

Presented by Andrew Gilbert, Assistant Teaching Professor of the Humanities

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Marvel Moreno was a Columbian writer best known for December Breeze, a masterful novel exploring womanhood, class, and tradition in 1950s Colombia. She was chosen by the Columbian magazine Cromos as "one of the hundred most influential women in the history of Colombia."

Presented by Yohainna Abdala-Mesa, Assistant Teaching Professor of Spanish and Portuguese

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