Abby Merrick

Sep 23, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Benoit Challand |Abby Merrick |Hamit Bozarslan |Zukiswa Wanner

Destroyed hospital in Gaza (2014) | mehmet ali poyraz / ShutterstockGideon Levy, an award-winning journalist for the liberal Israeli English-language daily Haaretz, has been covering the Palestinian occupied territories since the late 1980s.

Jun 3, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Gregory Laski |Josephine Houman |Abby Merrick |Miranda Young

“Head of a Fury” (ca. 1750–1800) | Unknown artist / Cooper Hewitt / Public domainIn Elizabeth Flock’s new book, the Furies—female agents of revenge in Greek tragedy—are alive and well in our world today. Published earlier this year, The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice (Harper, 2024) opens with a powerfully personal origin story. Flock recounts that, while on a summer trip to Rome when she was 21, a tour guide raped her.

Apr 15, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Abby Merrick |Justin A. Joyce |Josephine Houman |Chiara Bottici

“Transsexual sandwich” (1995) | Pippa Garner / Courtesy of the authorPippa Garner is a fabulous, mercurial artist with an extrasensory attunement to cultural shifts, a habit of self-mythologization, and a taste for absurdity. Now in her 80s, she is experiencing something of a renaissance in visibility—and notoriety.

Mar 6, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Andrew I. Port |Zukiswa Wanner |Abby Merrick |Mohammed Omer

Void of War (1918) | Paul Nash / Public domainSince last spring, I have been on an extended tour to promote my new book, Never Again: Germans and Genocide After the Holocaust, which looks at German responses to the “crime of crimes” in other countries since 1945. Invariably, at least one audience member has asked me about German responses to Israel’s alleged genocide against the Palestinians.

Mar 6, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Zukiswa Wanner |Abby Merrick |Mohammed Omer |Ilan Baron

Protestors against the war on Gaza outside the German consulate in Cape Town (February 9, 2024) | Ashraf Hendricks / GroundUp (CC BY-ND 4.0 DEED)My name is Zukiswa Wanner. I am a writer, editor, publisher, and curator who considers the African continent my home. In 2020 I became the first woman on my continent to receive the Goethe-Medaille, alongside Bolivian artist and museum director Elvira Espejo Ayca and writer Ian McEwan from the United Kingdom.