TEDxPalermo - Maria Sebregondi - Ecriture Infinie
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The TEDxPalermo Talk by Maria Sebregondi was one of the first in the morning of April30th. The location due to bad weather was changed at the very last minute and studio427 were welcoming our day. For the first time Maria Sebregondi speaks about the project "Ecriture infinie" by Bili Bidjocka curated by Simon Njami as a monumental concept passin... Read more
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- -: TEDxPalermo - Maria Sebregondi - Ecriture Infinie
May 11, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)The TEDxPalermo Talk by Maria Sebregondi was one of the first in the morning of April30th. The location due to bad weather was changed at the very last minute and studio427 were welcoming our day. For the first time Maria Sebregondi speaks about the project "Ecriture infinie" by Bili Bidjocka cur...
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- -: TEDxPalermo - Tishani Doshi - The Luxury of Slowness
May 13, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)The TEDxPalermo's Talk by the Indian poet, writer and dancer Tishani Doshi was in the middle of a rainy April30th. The location due to bad weather was changed at the very last minute and studio427 were welcoming our event. The Time is the focus of the Talk. She explain us that there are many kind...
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- -: TEDxUFM: Grete Pasch - I can give you books
September 9, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Grete Pasch is an expert in metadata design, academic libraries, computer systems implementation, digitization projects, rich media production, digital library management, e-learning, and higher education. She is currently vice dean of the Central Library at Effat University in Saudi Arabia. Prev...
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- -: Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story
October 7, 2009 (over 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding. T...
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Elif Shafak: Elif Shafak: The politics of fiction
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- -: Authors@Google: Charles Bock
March 2, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Charles Bock visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book "Beautiful Children: A Novel." This event took place on February 23, 2009, as part of the Authors@Google series. In this masterly debut novel, Charles Bock mixes incandescent prose with devious humor to capture Las V...
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- -: Authors@Google: Irina Reyn
May 5, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Novelist Irina Reyn visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to read from her book, "What Happened to Anna K." This even took place on April 29, 2009, as part of the Authors@Google series.
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- -: Authors@Google: Jonathan Ames & Dean Haspiel
May 6, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)The Authors@Google program welcomed Jonathan Ames and Dean Haspiel to Google's NY office to discuss their collaborative work, "The Alcoholic". "Jonathan Ames is the author of I Pass Like Night, The Extra Man, What's Not to Love?, and My Less Than Secret Life. He is the winner of a Guggenheim Fel...
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- -: Paul Auster: Why Roth Is Wrong About the Novel
November 13, 2009 (over 14 years ago)http://bit.ly/k0Pi6O - Philip Roth believes books will soon be dead. Paul Auster respectfully—and strenuously—disagrees.
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- -: David Small on His National Book Award Nomination
November 19, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Stitches was only the second graphic novel ever to be nominated for a National Book Award. Author David Small discussed what the honor meant to him and why his dark memoir was NOT miscategorized. http://bigthink.com/davidsmall
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