Thomas Mann House Events Archive
September 2021
"The Magician": Reading and Conversation
Thomas Mann House (1550 N San Remo Drive Pacific Palisades, CA 90272)
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In his new novel, "The Magician," award-winning Irish author Colm Tóibín tells the life of Thomas Mann as a novel. From his childhood in Lübeck to his marriage in Munich, from his opposition to the Nazis to his American exile.
Just as Tóibín described the life of Henry James in "The Master," his new book chronicles the life of the Nobel Prize winner, the brilliant, complex artist whose life unfolds at a time when change and war are shaking Europe. The novel contains fascinating sections about interwar Germany: the inflation, the growing discontent, the chaos, but also the artistic and sexual freedom that Mann's children Erika and Klaus experienced and lived out. We see Thomas and Katia Mann struggling to find their way in a new and strange home, first in Princeton and later in Los Angeles.
"The work of a first-rate novelist artful, moving and very beautiful," The New York Times Book Review wrote of the work. The author will be in conversation with literary scholar and Thomas Mann expert Friedhelm Marx.
The event will be recorded and made available on the Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House Youtube Channel on September 19.
By invitation only.
Participants
Colm Tóibín is one of the most important Irish authors of the present day. He is the author of ten novels, including The Magician, his most recent novel; The Master, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Brooklyn, winner of the Costa Book Award; The Testament of Mary; and Nora Webster, as well as two story collections and several books of criticism. Colm Tóibín is a professor of humanities at Columbia University. Tóibín has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times. He lives in Dublin and New York.
Friedhelm Marx is Chair of Modern German Literature at the University of Bamberg. He is co-editor of the Thomas Mann Handbook (Stuttgart 2018) and since 2015 has been spokesman for the jury awarding the Thomas Mann Literature Prize of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck and the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. Friedhelm Marx has been Vice President of the German Thomas Mann Society since 2006 and is currently a Fellow of the Thomas Mann House Los Angeles.
Partners
An event by the Thomas Mann House in collaboration with Scribner, Skylight Books, and Goethe-Institut Irland.
Der Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House e. V. wird gefördert vom Auswärtigen Amt und von der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien.
Conference: John Rawls's "A Theory of Justice at Fifty"
University of Notre Dame McKenna Hall Conference Center (1399 N. Notre Dame Avenue Notre Dame, IN 46556)
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2021 brings the 50th anniversary of the publication of A Theory of Justice and the centenary of John Rawls's birth. In September of this year, the University of Notre Dame will host an international conference to mark those anniversaries. The conference will bring together approximately 25 of the best political philosophers in the world who engage Rawls's work, some critically and some sympathetically. The conference promises to advance scholarly understanding of his thought and its relevance to contemporary politics.
Thomas Mann Fellow Rainer Forst is invited to participate in a session on September 24, at 3:45 p.m., entitled Rawls and Public Reason Liberalism.
Find the program for this conference and information on how to register here.
Participant
Prof. Dr. Rainer Forst is Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy at Goethe University Frankfurt. His research focuses on questions of justice, democracy and tolerance as well as Critical Theory and practical reason in the tradition of Immanuel Kant. In 2012 he was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the DFG. Rainer Forst is Full Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. From 2010 to 2018 he was an Associate Editor of "Ethics" (now on the board) and he has been a Member of the Executive Editorial Committee of "Political Theory" and engaged in various functions in numerous other international journals. Also, he is Co-Editor of the book series "Theorie und Gesellschaft" and "Normative Ordnungen" at Campus Verlag. Prof. Dr. Rainer Forst is 2021 Thomas Mann Fellow.
Parnter
This conference is organized by the University of Notre Dame Department of Philosophy.
Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House e. V. is supported by the German Federal Foreign Office and Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
