What does it mean to be a citizen of the world? How do literature, culture, and identity shape our understanding of belonging and difference? These are the kinds of profound questions that Werner Sollors, one of our time's most celebrated cultural critics, has spent a lifetime exploring. As the Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English and of African American Studies, Emeritus, at Harvard University, and a Global Professor of Literature at NYU Abu Dhabi, Sollors charted new ways of thinking about cosmopolitanism, ethnicity, and race. His work has become essential for understanding the complexities of identity and the intertwined narratives of cultural exchange in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. With the release of A Werner Sollors Reader from Edinburgh University Press—a collection that captures the depth and breadth of his influential writings—Sollors’s contributions are being celebrated in a conversation at NYU Abu Dhabi. This event honors his remarkable career as a scholar, teacher, and thinker.
Speakers
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Werner Sollors, Werner Sollors, Author of "The Werner Sollors Reader" (Edinburgh University Press, 2025), Professor Emeritus, Harvard University
In conversation with
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Shamoon Zamir, Professor of Literature and Art History, NYUAD
