Telex from Cuba

活动时间：2010年3月13日 16:00 - 17:00
活动地点：M on the Bund

A tale of American expatriates in the near-mythological world of 1950s Cuba, a finely drawn portrait made up of multiple voices, of the lost world of pre-Castro Cuba.

Author for this session is : Rachel Kushner

Not Her Real Name

活动时间：2010年3月13日 14:00 - 15:00
活动地点：M on the Bund

Award-winning New Zealand author Emily Perkins talks about the themes and characters in her work: exile, identity, the invention of self, and more. Moderated by Kristin Bair O’Keeffe.

From Berlin to Shanghai in Half a Century

活动时间：2010年3月13日 15:00 - 16:00
活动地点：M on the Bund

Finally, the memoir. Tess Johnston takes us on a lively fifty-year romp, in and out of theForeign Service, with travels and adventures aplenty: from the Cold War in East and West Berlin, to Vietnam during seven years of war, Laos during a mini-revolution, Tehran between revolutions, and finally, nearly three tranquil decades in Shanghai, plus appendices on everything from Asmara and Chinese crickets to a concise history of expats in old Shanghai and – of course – dogs.

Beyond the Knacker’s Yard: An irish Writer Reads

活动时间：2010年3月13日 12:00 - 13:00
活动地点：M on the Bund

Cork native and prize-winning author Alan Titley is well known for his Irish language writing, but here he will read in English from his essay collection, “Beyond the Knacker’s Yard” and other works, full of an infectious humor that is a real delight.

The Future History of the Arctic

活动时间：2010年3月13日 13:00 - 14:00
活动地点：M on the Bund

Always lingering at the margins of global affairs and at the edge of our mental map, the Arctic has now found its way to the centre of the issues which will challenge and define our world in the twenty-first century: energy security and the struggle for natural resources, climate change and its uncertain speed and consequences, the return of great power competition and the remaking of global trade patterns. Geopolitics expert Charles Emmerson tells the story of the Arctic’s coming of age, through the stories of those who live there, those who study it, and those who will determine its destiny.

Shanghai’s Dancing World: Cabaret Culture and Urban Politics, 1919-1954

活动时间：2010年3月13日 11:00 - 12:00
活动地点：M on the Bund

Andrew Field delves deep into the long-ago world of taxi dancers and cabarets, nightclubs and ballrooms that blossomed in 1920s and 30s Shanghai, and looks at how, and why, Shanghai society adopted this westernized entertainment to suit themselves in an era when Chinese national identity was being forged.

Story Play! World Folktales Alive!

活动时间：2010年3月13日 10:00 - 11:00
活动地点：M on the Bund

Join us for a morning of storytelling with traveler, author, storyteller and folklorist Dr Margaret Read MacDonald, as she shares her collection of folktales gathered from journeys around the world.

Ages 3-12