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PEN America 8:
Making Histories
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| April 25 | At Home in Europe |
When: Wednesday, April 25
Where: Hemmerdinger Hall at NYU: 100 Washington Square East
What time: 3–4:30 p.m.
With Marguerite Abouet, Geert Mak, Zafer Şenocak, Janne Teller, Ilija Trojanow; moderated by Jane Kramer of The New Yorker
Free and open to the public. No reservations.
Co-sponsored by the NYU Creative Writing Program
Over the last decade, Europe has undergone some of the most radical changes in its recent history. These writers
take a look at the impact of multiculturalism, migration, and economic and other social shifts, and discuss
their implications for the stability of individual countries and the creation of a broader European identity. Ilija
Trojanow has undertaken a reverse migration of sorts, leaving Europe to settle in various places in sub-Saharan Africa and then chronicling many of these far-flung corners of the world. Geert Mak is a journalist,
historian, and author of the forthcoming In Europe: A Journey Through the Twentieth Century. While working as a macroeconomist for the United Nations, Janne Teller lived in Dar-es-Salaam, Maputo, Brussels, and New York and much of her writing focuses on European and multicultural identity. Zafer Şenocak has written widely on the issues of diversity in
Germany, the Turkish diaspora, and the short distances and large fears of a globalizing Europe. Marguerite
Abouet left Abidjan, Ivory Coast at the age of 12 to study in France. Her graphic novel Aya details the
promising, prosperous period of the 1970s in Ivory Coast.
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