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Center of Excellence Lecture Series - Mohamed MBougar Sarr

Mohamed MBougar Sarr
October 31, 2023
5:30PM - 6:30PM
Hagerty Hall 180

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Add to Calendar 2023-10-31 17:30:00 2023-10-31 18:30:00 Center of Excellence Lecture Series - Mohamed MBougar Sarr The French Center of Excellence will host Mohamed MBougar Sarr for a lecture entitled, The influence of anxiety: From Bound to violence to The most secret memory of men. This lecture is sponsored by the French Center of Excellence, Villa Albertine, Other Press publishing house. It will be held on October 31, 2023 from 5:30pm-6:30pm in Hagerty Hall 180. The event is open to the public. All are welcome and encouraged to attend. Author Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, winner of the 2021 Prix Goncourt, will speak on his work. Born in Senegal and writing in French, Sarr has received worldwide accolades for his novels, notably La plus secrète mémoire des hommes (lit. The Most Secret Memory of Men) and Terre Ceinte (2015), published as Brotherhood in English translation (2021). The Most Secret Memory of Men is available in English and was long listed for the National Book Awards. There are two terrific recent reviews of The Most Secret Memory of Men:  --In the NY Times Book Review, “A Novel Reconsiders an African Writer Tarnished by Scandal”: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/26/books/review/mohamed-mbougar-sarr-most-secret-memory-of-men.html --and in the New Yorker, “How a Literary Scandal Inspired a Mischievous New African Novel”, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/09/18/the-most-secret-memory-of-men-mohamed-mbougar-sarr-book-review   Please register for the event here. There is a Zoom webinar option available for those who are unable to attend in person. Register here. If you require accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, please contact Matt Lang at lang.650@osu.edu. Requests made by October 17, 2023 will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the University will make every effort to meet requests made after that. Please reach out to Matt Lang at lang.650@osu.edu for more information. Stay connected with the Center of Excellence & French Press through their website. Hagerty Hall 180 Department of French and Italian frit@osu.edu America/New_York public
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The French Center of Excellence will host Mohamed MBougar Sarr for a lecture entitled, The influence of anxiety: From Bound to violence to The most secret memory of men. This lecture is sponsored by the French Center of Excellence, Villa Albertine, Other Press publishing house. It will be held on October 31, 2023 from 5:30pm-6:30pm in Hagerty Hall 180. The event is open to the public. All are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Author Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, winner of the 2021 Prix Goncourt, will speak on his work. Born in Senegal and writing in French, Sarr has received worldwide accolades for his novels, notably La plus secrète mémoire des hommes (lit. The Most Secret Memory of Men) and Terre Ceinte (2015), published as Brotherhood in English translation (2021). The Most Secret Memory of Men is available in English and was long listed for the National Book Awards.

There are two terrific recent reviews of The Most Secret Memory of Men: 

--In the NY Times Book Review, “A Novel Reconsiders an African Writer Tarnished by Scandal”: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/26/books/review/mohamed-mbougar-sarr-most-secret-memory-of-men.html

--and in the New Yorker, “How a Literary Scandal Inspired a Mischievous New African Novel”, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/09/18/the-most-secret-memory-of-men-mohamed-mbougar-sarr-book-review

 

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Please register for the event here.

There is a Zoom webinar option available for those who are unable to attend in person. Register here.

If you require accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, please contact Matt Lang at lang.650@osu.edu. Requests made by October 17, 2023 will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the University will make every effort to meet requests made after that.

Please reach out to Matt Lang at lang.650@osu.edu for more information. Stay connected with the Center of Excellence & French Press through their website.