29 Monday Sep 2014
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As part of the day-long series of talks, musical performances, dance, and world foods in the Buffalo Humanities Festival, I presented “Immigration Literature and the Alien Nation,” featuring three generations of Russian emigre writers, Anzia Yezierska, Vladimir Nabokov, and Gary Shteyngart.
Immigration Literature and the Alien Nation
Humanities Festival Reception
29 Monday Sep 2014
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The highlight of the Buffalo Humanities Festival was the reading and on-stage interview (with David Schmid) of the very funny and engaging Gary Shteyngart. Shteyngart read from his memoir, Little Failure.
29 Monday Sep 2014
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As part of the Buffalo Humanities Festival, Tanya Shilina-Conte and I screened Who Is Dayani Cristal? starring Gael Garcia Bernal and directed by Marc Silver, on Thursday, September 25. The large and receptive audience engaged in a very spirited discussion of our country’s failed immigration policies and the 2,000 confirmed deaths of migrants in the Sonora Desert since 2000. “Dayani Cristal” was but one whose desiccated body could be identified. The film tells his story.
Dayani Cristal Post-Screening Discussion
Who Is Dayani Cristal?
Joseph M. Conte 