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7:00 PM-8:30 PM
CANCELLED: Navid Kermani in conversation with Susannah Heschel
Panel Discussion|Part of the series 'Navid Kermani: In Search of a Common Cause'
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170 Beacon Street, Boston, MA
- Language English
- Price Free Admission, please RSVP
- Part of series: Navid Kermani: In Search of a Common Cause
Join us for a special evening featuring award winning German author and public intellectual Navid Kermani in conversation with Susannah Heschel, Professor and chair of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College.
In recent years, Kermani has traveled through regions marked by upheaval to document how ordinary people endure, resist, and make meaning. Drawing on these journeys, he will read from his recent writings and reflect on the role of literature in times of crisis. Kermani and Heschel will explore what it means to be a writer in a polarized world marked by war, displacement, and political division? How is the concept of “the West” changing? How might literature, poetry, and religion serve as bridges in fractured societies and foster solidarity?
These events bring together acclaimed thinkers from both sides of the Atlantic for a conversation on literature, politics, and spirituality at a moment of profound global change.
Presented within the context of the series 'Navid Kermani: In Search of a Common Cause'. With this extensive lecture series, Navid Kermani, the Goethe-Institut in North America and the Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles explore with our local partners how we can build and maintain solidarity among seemingly opposing identities, groups, and geopolitical alliances.
About the Panelists
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Navid Kermani
Navid Kermani is an independent German writer living in Cologne. He studied Middle Eastern Studies, Philosophy, and Theater in Cologne, Cairo, and Bonn, where he received the post-doctoral degree (“Habilitation”). For his literary and academic work, he was awarded numerous prizes, including the Hannah-Arendt-Prize, the Kleist-Prize, the Joseph-Breitbach-Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the Hölderlin-Prize and the Thomas-Mann-Prize. His literary books are published by Carl Hanser Verlag (German) and Seagull Books (English), his academic and non-fictional works by C. H. Beck (German) and Polity Press (English).
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Susannah Heschel
Susannah Heschel is Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor and chair of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. Her books include Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus; The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany; Jüdischer Islam: Islam und jüdisch-deutsche Selbstbestimmung; Jewish Studies and the Woman Question, written with Sarah Imhoff, and several edited books. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, grants from the Carnegie Corporation and the Ford Foundation, and five honorary doctorates from universities in the United States, Canada, Germany, and Switzerland. During the academic year 2025-26, she is a visiting professor at Harvard University.
