Forthcoming 2019 events in New York, Seville, London, Chicago, and Arequipa (Peru), with further events scheduled for 2020 in Padua, Geneva and beyond. See below for details!
PAST EVENTS
HAY Festival, Arequipa, Peru
November 08, 2019
I will be appearing in two events at the Hay Festival in Arequipa, Peru--a conversation with Carolina Robino about my biography of Hernando Colón and his project to build the greatest library of all time, The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books/El Memorial de los Libros Naufragados, and a roundtable with Pola Oloixarac, Melba Escobar and Xavi Áyen on 'Books as Objects of Desire'. Come join us!
Events in Venice, 23 & 24 January 2019
January 22, 2019
I will be speaking at the Scuola per Librai Umberto e Elisabetta Mauri at the Fondazione Cini on 23 January, and at the Centre for Humanities and Social Change, Ca' Foscari, on the 24th.
September 30, 2016
July 09, 2018

Norwich Worlds Festival

Shakespeare in Swahili at Tara Arts
Travel and Literature at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas


April 22, 2017
To celebrate the Ides of March in this Shakespeare anniversary year, I'll be telling the story of how Julius Caesar started a riot in Uganda in the middle of the twentieth century, as well as reading other stories from the book and signing copies.
For All Time - Shakepeare's Universality at the Stratford Literary Festival
April 28, 2016
March 03, 2016
I'll be speaking to author and broadcaster Jenni Mills about Shakespeare in Swahililand at the Independent Bath Festival of Literature on Thursday 3 March, from 4.30 to 5.30.