See below for the latest events featuring Daughter of History: Traces of an Immigrant Girlhood and Istvan Szabo, Filmmaker of Existential Choices
2024
February 24: Authors’ Roundtable, Temple Sinai, Washington, DC
March 3: London Jewish Book Week
March 20: Virginia Festival of the Book, Charlottesville, VA
March 11-12: International conference on Eastern European cinema, Paris, France
April 7: Politics & Prose Bookstore, Washington DC
April 19: Harvard Bookstore, in conversation with Daphne Kalotay
June 9: Congregation Agudas Achim, Alexandria, VA
July 25: West Tisbury Public Library
August 18: MV Film Center, film screening and Q&A on Zoom with filmmaker Istvan Szabo
September 23: Harvard Club of New York
2023
May 3: Harvard Bookstore, Cambridge, MA
June 2: POLITICS & PROSE Bookstore, Washington, DC.
June 28: Harvard Club of Washington, Zoom
July 26: West Tisbury Library, in conversation with Carol Gilligan
August 12: Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center
September 6: Webinar for Moment Magazine, in conversation with Amy Schwartz
September 7: Webinar for Jewish Women’s Archive, in conversation with Judith Rosenbaum
September 21: Harvard Class of 1969, Zoom.
September 27, 2 p.m.: Friendship Heights Neighborhood Network, Zoom.
A few highlight from earlier years:
March 4, 2018
Susan Suleiman spoke about The Némirovsky Question at the London Jewish Book Fair
May 19, 2018, talk on The Némirovsky Question at the Cercil Museum (part of the Mémorial de la Shoah), in Orléans, France
June 1-2, 2018, international conference at University of Cambridge, England, featuring Suleiman’s book Subversive Intent: “Subversive Intent and Beyond: Surrealism, Politics, Sexuality.” Here is a description of the conference:
Subversive Intent & Beyond: Surrealism, Politics, Sexuality is a two-day symposium which aims to address the subversive intents and contestatory acts, the legacies and lessons, of Surrealism, especially as they bear on politically charged questions of sexuality, gender, race and nationality. Our symposium takes as a critical focal point Susan Rubin Suleiman’s Subversive Intent: Gender, Politics and the Avant-Garde (1990), in arguing for a ‘feminist poetics’ that subverted a longstanding masculinist tradition. Since the publication of Suleiman’s book, numerous scholars have taken that argument further and/or expanded Surrealism’s history to acknowledge a warren of transnational multi-gendered, polysexual, ethnically and racially diverse positions. Inasmuch as our conference signals a ‘beyond’ to subversive intents, it aims to map the trajectories of other subversive intents, other voices and practices, related, in one way or another, to Surrealism’s heterogeneous history.
Some highlights from 2017
January 26: Suleiman delivered the Naftulin Lecture on Jewish Identity at the Center for Jewish Studies at UCLA.
January 30: Lecture at the Center for Jewish Studies, Stanford University.
February 4: Symposium on “Diversity and Inclusion,” sponsored by the Consulate General of France, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
February 9-21: Trip leader on Harvard Alumni Association trip to French Polynesia, where Suleiman lectured on French colonialism, the art of Paul Gauguin, and contemporary Polynesian writing in French.
February 24: Symposium celebrating Faculty Fellows’ work, Hagler Institute for Advanced Study, Texas A&M University, where Susan Suleiman was a Faculty Fellow in 2016. Panel on “Writing in Dark Times” included talks by Suleiman, Lynn Higgins, Henry Rousso, and Maurice Samuels.
March-April: Talks on The Némirovsky Question in New York City: Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York University, and Albertine Bookstore.
April 2: Symposium on Simone de Beauvoir, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C. Suleiman spoke on Beauvoir’s prize-wining novel, The Mandarins.
September 27-29: Radio interviews in Paris, after the publication of La Question Némirovsky by Albin Michel publisher.
October 1: Panel discussion on La Question Némirovsky at the Mémorial de la Shoah in Paris, with biographer Olivier Philipponnat and historian Annette Wieviorka.
October – December: Stint as Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study of the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. Working on the films of Hungarian Academy-Award winning director István Szabó
November 8: Lecture on The Némirovsky Question, University of Verona, Italy.
November 27: Lecture on The Némirovsky Question, Central European University, Budapest.
December 13: Lecture on new work, Institute for Advanced Study, Central European University, Budapest: “‘To Leave or to Stay’: History, Politics, and Existential Choice in the Films of István Szabó”
A Few Highlights from 2016:
March 28: Susan Suleiman delivered the Texas A&M College of Liberal Arts’ Fallon-Marshall Lecture in Rudder Theatre The lecture, titled“Choices and Choicelessness in Wartime France: Irène Némirovsky’s Final Journey,” was co-sponsored by the Texas A&M University Institute for Advanced Study (TIAS). Link to Event Page
April 13: Susan Suleiman co-organized and spoke at the full-day conference, “Foreigners and Outsiders in Modern European Culture,” Texas A&M University Glasscock Center for the Humanities. Other speakers were scholars Robert Zaretsky, Atina Grossman, Lia Brozgal, Dinah Hannaford, Robert Shandley, and artist Ken Aptekar. Link to Event Page
June 23-25: Düsseldorf, Germany” Susan Suleiman was a plenary speaker at the MLA International Symposium, “Other Europes: Migrations, Translations, Transformations,” in the concluding panel on June 25. Link to Program
December 15: Book talk about The Némirovsky Question at the Alliance Francaise in Washington, DC.
Susan Rubin Suleiman 