Selves, 2019—
ALTERNATIVE SELVES
12-Week Online Workshop
February 5 — May 7, 2021
Dante, Inferno XXVI
Primo Levi, "The Ulysses Canto" (from If this is a Man)
Henry James, The Jolly Corner
Isak Dinesen, The Immortal Story
Orson Welles, The Immortal Story (movie)
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Tropical Malady (movie)
Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr. Ripley
Anthony Minghella, The Talented Mr. Ripley (movie)
Clément Purple, Noon [Plein soleil] (movie)
Julio Cortázar, "Axolótl"; "The Night Face Up"; "The End of the Game"
Machado de Assis, "The Mirror"
Clarice Lispector, "If it were me"
Luigi Pirandello, The Late Mattia Pascal
Krzysztof Kieslowski, The Double Life of Véronique
Heinrich von Kleist, "On the Puppet Theatre"
Pierre, Michon, "Life of Joseph Roulin"
Joseph L. Mankiewicz, All About Eve (movie)
Pedro Almodóvar, All About my Mother
DISPLACED SELVES
September 4 — November 13, 2020
Seamus Heaney, "Making Strange", and Eavan Boland, "A Woman Without a Country"
Apuleius, The Golden Ass
Maryse Condé, The Belle Créole
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, I Know Where I'm Going!
Isak Dinesen and Gabriel Axel, Babette's Feast and Babette's gaestebud
Aimé Césaire, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
Tommaso Landolfi, The Autumn Story
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Mati Diop, Atlantics
Christopher Isherwood, Mr Norris Changes Trains
Jonas Carpignano, Mediterranea and A Ciambra
INCHx FORUM ON DISPLACED SELVES
Online Reading Group
September-December, 2019
GENERATIONAL SELVES
Notre Dame Global Gateway in Rome, Italy
Virginia Woolf, The Years
Annie Ernaux, The Years [Les années]
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Les Plages d'Agnès, directed by Agnès Varda (2008)
Click here to read our report from Rome!
Transformations, 2016-2018
SUPERNATURAL TRANSFORMATIONS
Notre Dame Global Gateway in Kylemore Abbey, Ireland
Ovid, The Metamorphosis
Shakespeare, "A Midsummers' Night Dream"
Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
Sweeney Astray, translated from medieval Irish by Seamus Heaney
Rosa Rosà, "A Woman with Three Souls"
Sunrise, directed by F.W. Murnau (1927)
Guest Speakers: Caitríona Ní Dhúill, Paola Sica, and Fintan O'Toole
SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS
Princeton Athens Center for Research and Hellenic Study in Athens, Greece
Aeschylus, Oresteia
poems by Constantine Cavafy
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Il Gattopardo
The Rules of the Game, directed by Jean Renoir (1939)
Guest Speaker: Edmund Keeley
INTERNAL TRANSFORMATIONS
Mme de Lafayette, La Princesse de Clèves
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Sylvia Plath, "Lady Lazarus" and "Colossus"
Vertigo, directed by Alfred Hitchcock Vertigo
Emotions, 2015-2016
SOCIAL LONGING
Notre Dame Global Gateway in Dublin, Ireland
Giorgio Bassani, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
poems by Eavan Boland and Michael Hartnett
The Magnificent Ambersons, directed by Orson Welles (1942)
ENVY & GRATITUDE
Centro de Estudos Comparatistas, University of Lisbon
Honore Balzac, Cousin Bette
Willa Cather, The Professor's House
Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Pied Beauty"
Edward Hirsch, "Wild Gratitude"
Melanie Klein, "Envy and Gratitude"
Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl, directed by Manoel de Oliveira (2009)
Emily Dickinson, "Mine enemy is growing old" and "My Life had stood- a Loaded Gun"
Homer, The Iliad,
Heinrich von Kleist, "Michael Koolhaas"
Michel de Montaigne, "Of Anger"
The Big Heat, directed by Fritz Lang (1953)
Political Passions, 2013-2014
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Stendhal, The Red and The Black
Jorge Luis Borges, "Three Versions of Judas" and "The Theme of the Traitor and Hero"
James Joyce, Dubliners
Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Gospel According to Saint Matthew, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini (1964)
Synapsis – European School for Comparative Studies
Certosa di Pontignano
Pontignano, Italy