#Harriman Institute

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Breeding banker misanthropes

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⭐️ Harriman Alaska series Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1910-1914.

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Sponsored by Archewell of Course

Finally we learn the true purpose of this fake royal inGRIFTus visit: MEgain's dream to purcha$e (not earn) a political appointment as an Ambassador for the perks: IPP status, a NYC apartment, luxurious international travel, power, stardom, etc.

In 2021 in the name of vaccine equity (and netflix), The Meghans secured a meeting with several WHO representatives involved w/The Clinton Global Initiative including the UN Under-Secretary General Winnie Byanyima.¹

MEgain replied "It's wonderful to be back..." just to make it clear that THIS trip is all about HER not him.

It seems that identifying as Misan Harriman's Nigerian cousin might be her golden ticket to the UN.

Meghan Markle was the most unaccomplished woman in that room of so-called Nigerian women leaders and certainly the least deserving of any political appointments or elected positions. She's treated women and men like TRASH. Hissing and harassing them to such lengths that they require therapy and seek new employment.

Sparry is absolutely complicit in their drive to give his wife undeserved power and authority over institutions and human beings. He'll assist her with love bombing Ngozi even just save what little hair remains on his head. He's a Eunuch.

From the Nigerian Defense Staff Visitor Book of General Christopher Musa

Sparry: "Thank you for welcoming us to your beautiful country. Together we will heal our troops. -Harry

MEgain: "With gratitude for the support of the Invictus community. And for welcoming me home." -M??

Did these female leaders discuss the women who have been raped and violated in the African Parks Scandal?

What about hundreds of abducted Nigerian children, most recently in broad daylight on March 7, 2024?

Look at this lovely room and compare it to the spaces The Meghans publicized to the mainstream media on their tour. Spot the difference. Who do you think matters most, the wounded or the powerful?

The good news is that The MEghans have a very long history of lying, cheating, mistreating innocent people, and even mocking God.

No matter what doors 43% of bull chite will open, God will not be mocked. Sparry had the temerity to walk into Saint Paul's and read from the holy scriptures as if he's some authority on serving God while he nails his bloodline to the media's cross.

Cry out for mercy, Harry!

God will not be mocked, whatever a man sows that will he also reap.

MEgain thinks she can rebrand her ancestry and whore her way into achieving all her personal & professional goals.

Whatever she has sown, she will reap.

"An afternoon of joy, love and sharing of experiences with leading Nigerian women from across the spectrum- Public Sector, Private Sector, Civil Society, a mixture of young and old. Co hosted by Meghan the Duchess of Sussex and myself, and moderated by @MoAbudu

Talking about what it means to be a woman leader, how difficult it is to get there, and the sisterhood and brotherhood that is needed to help make leadership work. Also had a fantastic panel made up of Dr @OmobolaJohnsonHon Minister @DrDorisAnite @achenyoio@miss_asagba Dr. Mairo Mandara and CNN’s @StephanieBusari who all shared their special experiences.

Sponsored by "Archewell Women in Leadership"

Soho House's Misan Harriman but not Sparry🤔

She never cared about those less fortunate people The #Kigali of Today is the African Parks Rapes

She adored Elizabeth until she refused to place her in the Ambassador position with Emma Watson. When she had the opportunity for REVENGE she took it out on all the women waiting to meet her at the Fiji Market which included the UN Women and the Royal Tour Staff.

The Malta Ancestry Lie: "oh I do sort of blend in, and it's the loveliest feeling." Unfortunately for the Maltese tourist authority, Meghan's published article made NO MENTION MALTA!!!

"Meghan identifies 1st and foremost as the business woman. Money is Meghan's priority." P77

Numerous Bridges Burned. She has markled herself.

WTO | 2021 News items - History is made: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala chosen as Director-General

She'sa globalist WEFer: "The General Council decision follows months of uncertainty which arose when the United States initially refused to join the consensus around Dr Okonjo-Iweala and threw its support behind Trade Minister Yoo Myung-hee of the Republic of Korea. But following Ms Yoo's decision on 5 February to withdraw her candidacy, the administration of newly elected US President Joseph R. Biden Jr. dropped the US objection and announced instead that Washington extends its “strong support” to the candidacy of Dr Okonjo-Iweala."

History is made: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala chosen as Director-General

WTO members made history today (15 February) when the General Council agreed by consensus to select Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala of Nigeria as the organization’s seventh Director-General.

When she takes office on 1 March, Dr Okonjo-Iweala will become the first woman and the first African to be chosen as Director-General. Her term, renewable, will expire on 31 August 2025.

“This is a very significant moment for the WTO. On behalf of the General Council, I extend our warmest congratulations to Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on her appointment as the WTO's next Director-General and formally welcome her to this General Council meeting,” said General Council Chair David Walker of New Zealand who, together with co-facilitators Amb. Dacio Castillo (Honduras) and Amb. Harald Aspelund (Iceland) led the nine-month DG selection process.

“Dr Ngozi, on behalf of all members I wish to sincerely thank you for your graciousness in these exceptional months, and for your patience. We look forward to collaborating closely with you, Dr Ngozi, and I am certain that all members will work with you constructively during your tenure as Director-General to shape the future of this organization,” he added.

Dr Okonjo-Iweala said a key priority for her would be to work with members to quickly address the economic and health consequences brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic.

“I am honoured to have been selected by WTO members as WTO Director-General,” said Dr Okonjo-Iweala. “A strong WTO is vital if we are to recover fully and rapidly from the devastation wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic. I look forward to working with members to shape and implement the policy responses we need to get the global economy going again. Our organization faces a great many challenges but working together we can collectively make the WTO stronger, more agile and better adapted to the realities of today.” Her full statement is available here.

The General Council decision follows months of uncertainty which arose when the United States initially refused to join the consensus around Dr Okonjo-Iweala and threw its support behind Trade Minister Yoo Myung-hee of the Republic of Korea. But following Ms Yoo's decision on 5 February to withdraw her candidacy, the administration of newly elected US President Joseph R. Biden Jr. dropped the US objection and announced instead that Washington extends its “strong support” to the candidacy of Dr Okonjo-Iweala.

Amb. Walker extended his thanks to all eight of the candidates who participated in the selection process and particularly to Ms Yoo “for her ongoing commitment to and support for the multilateral trading system and for the WTO”. His full statement is available here.

The General Council agreed on 31 July that there would be three stages of consultations held over a two-month period commencing 7 September. During these confidential consultations, the field of candidates was narrowed from eight to five and then two. On 28 October, General Council Chair David Walker of New Zealand had informed members that based on consultations with all delegations Dr Okonjo-Iweala was best poised to attain consensus of the 164 WTO members and that she had the deepest and the broadest support among the membership. At that meeting, the United States was the only WTO member which said it could not join the consensus.

The consultation process undertaken by the chair and facilitators was established through guidelines agreed by all WTO members in a 2002 General Council decision. These guidelines spelled out the key criteria in determining the candidate best positioned to gain consensus is the “breadth of support” each candidate receives from the members. During the DG selection processes of 2005 and 2013, breadth of support was defined as “the distribution of preferences across geographic regions and among the categories of members generally recognized in WTO provisions: that is (Least developed countries), developing countries and developed countries”. This same process, agreed by all members in the General Council in 2020, was strictly followed by Chair Walker and his colleagues throughout the 2020-21 DG selection process.

The process for selecting a new Director-General was triggered on 14 May when former Director-General Mr Roberto Azevêdo informed WTO members he would be stepping down from his post one year before the expiry of his mandate. He subsequently left office on 31 August.

¹Winnie Byanyima UN Under-Secretary Gen & ED of UNAIDS since 2019: "Byanyima was appointed as the executive director of UNAIDS in August 2019, by the United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, following a comprehensive selection process that involved a search committee constituted by members of the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board. In her new position she concurrently serves as a United Nations Under-Secretary-General. In addition to her role at UNAIDS, Byanyima also serves a two-year term as a member of the World Bank Group’s (WBG) Advisory Council on Gender and Development. Since 2022, she has been a member of the Commission for Universal Health convened by Chatham House and co-chaired by Helen Clark and Jakaya Kikwete."

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america invented eugenics?

the USA specifically did. we used it most acutely against immigrants, against institutionalized people, the mentally ill, the disabled, and anyone who wasn’t white. and it very much inspired the nazi party. eugenics is deeply and quietly entrenched in our history. do you know of Hellen Keller? she believed in eugenics. yea seriously

A lot of early thinkers and progressives were eugenicists too.

The American eugenics movement received extensive funding from various corporate foundations including the Carnegie Institution, Rockefeller Foundation, and the Harriman railroad fortune. In 1906, J.H. Kellogg provided funding to help found the Race Betterment Foundation in Battle Creek, Michigan.[13] The Eugenics Record Office (ERO) was founded in Cold Spring Harbor, New York in 1911 by the renowned biologist Charles B. Davenport, using money from both the Harriman railroad fortune and the Carnegie Institution. As late as the 1920s, the ERO was one of the leading organizations in the American eugenics movement.

In years to come, the ERO and the American Eugenics Society collected a mass of family pedigrees and provided training for eugenics field workers who were sent to analyze individuals at various institutions, such as mental hospitals and orphanage institutions, across the United States. Eugenicists such as Davenport, the psychologist Henry H. Goddard, Harry H. Laughlin, and the conservationist Madison Grant (all of whom were well-respected during their time) began to lobby for various solutions to the problem of the "unfit."

Davenport favored immigration restriction and sterilization as primary methods; Goddard favored segregation in his The Kallikak Family; Grant favored all of the above and more, even entertaining the idea of extermination.

Here’s the Wikipedia about the subject if you want to keep reading about it

TW for forced sterilization, eugenics (obviously), genocide, abuse.

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Genuinely would love to study at the Harriman institute at Columbia but I would never get in and I’ve fucked up too much at this point.

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Sussex.com and Archewell rebrand: Compassion Inaction by u/somespeculation

Sussex.com and Archewell rebrand: Compassion Inaction It’s been over 1500 days since they announced Megxit (January 8, 2020).All they have independently accomplished is hypocritically monetizing their Royal connection, whilst simultaneously claiming to have “found freedom” from it.Their Sussex slogan rebrand is: “Show up. Do good.”And they do show up. They valiantly show up to promote themselves for positive PR. For awards, for Oprah, for Netflix, for promotional interviews, for podcasts, for faux diplomatic visits, for press. Most recently, with their own GMA camera crew for Invictus (their same MO as flying their own photoshop photographer Misan Harriman to Invictus Germany in 2023). Perhaps we should applaud Harry’s surprisingly swift recovery from the PTSD flashbacks of cameras clicking that he pityingly shared with ITV back as an actual working Royal in 2019. BetterUp must be miraculous. How chivalrous and heroic of the Suss ex-Royal, Harry, to magnanimously offer through the press yet another version of half-in, half-out while King Charles battles cancer. Apparently, the prodigal son is willing to crawl back into the institutional “trap” for spare change. (Helpful hint: if someone literally escapes your company by flying away in a helicopter, it’s not a good sign.)A cursory glance through their own website bios reveals scant CVs, signifying nothing. Their achievements are metaphorically parallel Meg’s wardrobe: 50 shades of beige. It is especially apparent where Meg is reaching back to pre Harry days, nearly a decade old of one-of TiG-featured ‘achievements’, embarrassingly reminiscent of the trope of the popular girl who peaked in high school. Comparatively, the Wales’s children assisting for 2 hours at the baby bank before Christmas already appears to encapsulate more of the Sussex brand than the Sussexes themselves. The contrast could not be more stark. “Do” is an active verb. Yet what has Brand Sussex actively “done” that focuses on others and not their own self aggrandizement? What have they actually done in a selfless, time intensive, hands-on way (beyond a few grudgingly made donations, which again, is not “doing”)? Any concrete examples? Bueller? Bueller? There have been brief 30 mins or less forays into performative charity appearances in those 1500 overseas days: a few food deliveries during covid (that TMZ and Backgrid all fortunately happened to capture),Meg flew to Ulvade where she wandered into the kitchen to help set up chips for a bit (spending less time than setting up her own photoshoot), a brief visit to Harvest Home charity pop up for pregnant homeless women (wearing a $4000 coat, where she went for lunch afterwards and spent more time with her $18 Caesar salad). If one were to total up their actual “doing” in over 1500 days, it’s laughably less than one average 40 hour work week. How noblesse oblige of the Duchess (or knobless oblige, in the case of our wayward Prince). Yet even Archewell failed to donate to any of these organizations - just like their Form 990 from 2022 proves it hasn’t donated to African Parks, Sentebale, or Invictus. Apparently philanthropy begins at home. All the Harry and Meghan rebrand shows is their only consistent post-Megxit brand: “All grift, no duty” (courtesy of Fleming at the NY Post). Sussexploitation. post link: https://ift.tt/VkHqwdi author: somespeculation submitted: February 17, 2024 at 10:34PM via SaintMeghanMarkle on Reddit

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"WELFARE OF WORKERS VITAL"," The Province (Vancouver). September 12, 1934. Page 3. ---- Chamber of Commerce Hears Lesson On Golden Rule In Business. ---- SHORTER HOURS NOT SOLUTION ---- Regulation of Business Has Been Carried Too Far, Says U.S. Visitor. ---- WINNIPEG, Sept. 12-(CP)-Co- operative relationship between employer and employee was vital to the welfare of the nation, declared A. O. Dawson, Montreal, in an address to the ninth annual convention of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce here.

"I believe it is not an extreme statement to say the golden rule is destined to become the general rule in Industry," he declared.

Chairman of the chamber's board, Mr. Dawson declared the future course of the organization should be guided by the principle that progress is measured solely by the advancement in well-being socially and economically of the workers-those who work either for wages or salary who are dependent upon their own Individual effort.

He urged absorption of all employable persons into industry but recognized there were some who were not only unemployed but unemployable. "These must be sympathetically dealt with not only by the state but by every citizen who can give encouragement or help." he said.

SHORTER HOURS NOT SOLUTION. He did not agree that shortening of hours or reduction of the work week would end unemployment. He was in favor of minimum wages and restriction of child labor and gradual reduction of hours of labor on an economic basis and coincident with the decline in the cost of production. Arbitrary reductions, however, were unsound.

Mr. Dawson believed the right to bargain should be conceded to every worker, either on an individual or collective basis. But industry was still opposed to national or international unions which asked the closed shop with its "coercion, restraint and intimidation."

Spurred by exigencies of depression, regulation of business has been carried to too great a degree and revision of codes is imperative, declared Henry I. Harriman, president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, in a luncheon address here today. Heading the United States delegation to the annual convention of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Harriman found close links between business of the two countries and noted advances toward prosperity made since war on depression was instituted.

"I do not share the view that you in Canada or we in the United States are rushing headlong into new and untried fields of economy and political adventure, or that we have cut loose from our constitutional moorings." Mr. Harriman declared. "Due to the exigencies of the depression we have undoubtedly gone too far, and we must retrace our steps. But in the main we have come closely to grips with the problems of a changing order of business which are based largely on the profit motive. The United States and the Dominion will set a salutary example of common sense for other nations of the world."

VALUE OF RESEARCH. Examples of what research was doing for business were presented to the convention by G. W. Huggett, Montreal. Application of research to the science of wealth, Mr. Huggett declared, would be a major step towards ending the depression. He declared research permitted business to produce better articles faster and at lower cost. Dr. R. C. Wallace, president of the University of Alberta, addressed a luncheon gathering today, emphasizing Canada's trade policy must make allowance for imports to the value of the raw materials exported.

W. M. Birks, Montreal vice-president of the Federation of Chambers of Commerce of the British Empire, addressed a luncheon tendered the visiting women by the Women's Canadian Club. He spoke on "Facets of Empire."

[I love that the 'national' chamber of commerce opposes 'national' unions - capital can organize on a large scale, never labour.]

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If you know, you know.

“…Eugenics would have been so much bizarre parlor talk had it not been for extensive financing by corporate philanthropies, specifically the Carnegie Institution, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Harriman railroad fortune. They were all in league with some of America's most respected scientists from such prestigious universities as Stanford, Yale, Harvard and Princeton. These academicians espoused race theory and race science, and then faked and twisted data to serve eugenics' racist aims.”

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Tinubu appoints governing council for Maritime University, Others

President Bola Tinubu has appointed heads of governing councils of selected federal universities and tertiary institutions of learning. Nigerian Maritime University, Okerenkoko, Delta State, has Temi Harriman as Chairman, and Adeola Adeogun, Benedict Aguele, Freeman Kasa and Babangida Alhassan Abdullahi as members of governing council. Nigerian University of Science and Technology, Abuja, has…

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Institutions ‘extremely interested’ in crypto ETFs, but buying has cooled: Survey

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Institutional interest in cryptocurrencies has not budged despite the market falling 60% from all-time highs (ATH), as a majority of asset managers have said they are “extremely interested” in crypto theme– Exchange-traded funds (ETF). On April 3, financial services firm Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) released its 2023 Global ETF Investor Investigation which surveyed 325 institutional investors,…

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⭐️ Harriman Alaska series Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1910-1914.

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July 12 is the final day of the 2023 NATO Summit in Vilnius, and by all appearances, Ukraine will not receive an official invitation to join the alliance, no matter how much Zelensky accuses it of displaying “weakness.” At the same time, it’s not clear what other options Russia has for escalation short of using nuclear weapons; it’s already killed thousands of civilians and destroyed massive amounts of infrastructure. So what is NATO afraid of? Meduza spoke to political scientist Kimberly Marten, an expert on the history of Russia-NATO relations and a professor at Barnard College and Columbia University’s Harriman Institute, to find out.

In the leadup to the 2023 NATO Summit in Vilnius and throughout the event, Volodymyr Zelensky has continued to insist that Ukraine needs and deserves to become a member of the organization. NATO, however, has opted not only not to invite it but also not to guarantee that it will join the alliance at some future point. According to political scientist Kimberly Marten, this is less because Western countries fear possible Russian escalation than because they are concerned about the uncertainty of Ukraine’s political future.

“Ukraine has been incredibly brave, accomplished so much, and done so much to show that it is a good partner with Western countries. Zelensky has been the face of this. But we don’t know what will happen when Zelensky is not president anymore,” she told Meduza.

If Ukraine ends up losing a significant amount of territory to Russia, for example, one potential outcome could be the growth of domestic political extremism, according to Marten.

“If the new [Ukrainian] leadership then had revanchist goals of saying Ukraine must get back all of its territory, it would be very uncomfortable for NATO to have this security guarantee made to Ukraine,” she said. “Once you are in NATO, NATO can’t kick you out.”

In this scenario, if Ukraine were a NATO member, the situation could incentivize the country’s leaders to behave recklessly because they know the alliance is bound to come to their rescue if Moscow responds with aggression.

“It will be important to make sure that whoever comes into [power] after Zelensky and after the war is over is not someone who can take advantage of NATO membership to take highly aggressive, highly risky actions that might end up drawing NATO into a direct war with Russia,” said Marten.

At the same time, the risk of Russia escalating its invasion in response to NATO promising membership to Ukraine is not negligible; according to Marten, some parties are worried that promising Ukraine NATO membership at this moment could “add insult to injury” after Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mutiny in June left Putin looking weak. “There is an argument that to counteract this weakness Putin might lash out, so giving him another excuse to lash out right now is not a good idea. Especially at a time when a lot of people are concerned about what is happening at the Zaporizhia nuclear plant and what he might do there,” she told Meduza.

Additionally, in the longer term, Marten said, promising now that Ukraine will be formally invited into NATO when the war ends would give Putin one more incentive to ensure the war never ends. And that’s not to mention the complexity of determining what constitutes the “end” of the war, which could plausibly refer to anything from a total victory to a ceasefire.

“I think defining things in terms of after the war is actually a complex situation and complex definition,” she said. “It makes sense to wait and see how things happen, rather than come out now with a timetable that can be taken advantage of by the Russian side.”

Despite all that, Marten said she doesn’t believe concern about Russia’s reaction should be a major block towards moving ahead with Ukraine joining NATO. First of all, she argued, Putin made it clear in February 2022 that he already considered Ukraine a “de facto member of NATO,” and that was before NATO member states began sending weapons to Ukraine. “Since then, we have seen a much stronger relationship develop between Ukraine and a wide variety of Western countries, so I think Putin would definitely think of Ukraine as a de facto NATO member now [if he didn’t before],” said Marten.

In addition, she said, it would be difficult for Putin to escalate the war much further: he’s made it clear that he’s willing to target civilians and destroy key infrastructure like the Kakhovka dam, and he appears to have determined that crossing other red lines would run counter to Russia’s interests.

“I think the reason that he hasn’t done even more, either by taking the war to NATO territory or by choosing to use nuclear or chemical weapons, which he made a threat of doing last fall, is that he has decided it would not be in Russian interests to do those things, especially because China and India have made it clear that use of nuclear weapons would be unacceptable to them,” Marten said.

Nailing down future support

While it appears all but certain that an official NATO invitation is not on the table at the Vilnius summit, there are other important guarantees for Ukraine to seek in the meantime — not from the alliance itself but from its member states. While the U.S., for example, has been an enthusiastic (if less generous than Kyiv would like) provider of weapons and training to Ukraine so far, there’s currently no assurance that this support will continue, especially as an election year approaches.

“It would be very good for Democrats to have a discussion of the relationship [between the U.S. and Ukraine] with Republican party leaders in the U.S. House and Senate so that we can get bipartisan mainstream consensus about supporting Ukraine before the 2024 presidential election,” said Marten.

Donald Trump, the current frontrunner for the 2024 Republican nomination, has refused to commit to supporting Ukraine, and Marten said that if the former president wins again, “all bets are off” regarding Washington’s commitments to both NATO and Ukraine.  

“So getting the relationship formalized before then, with bipartisan support, would be ideal,” she said.

Still, she added, a Trump victory wouldn’t necessarily spell doom for Kyiv’s war effort. Support for Ukraine enjoys bipartisan support in the U.S., not least because it allows legislators on both sides of the aisle to show that budgetary money is being spent effectively. “So far Ukraine has done a great job of demonstrating that, and it has been very careful to follow U.S. rules about demonstrating where the weapons are going,” she said.

Meanwhile, unforeseen domestic developments in Russia could cause the war to end (or to swing in Ukraine’s favor) sooner than many are anticipating, according to Marten.

On the one hand, she said, researchers like Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Erica Frantz have shown that when a leader has been in an authoritarian position for a long time, their wars tend to continue even if they are replaced. “It’s very unlikely that a new authoritarian leader who came into power in Russia would change Putin’s basic system,” she said.

But on the other hand, the morale of Russia’s troops is an open question, especially after Yevgeny Prigozhin publicly called into the question the very rationale of the war itself.

“If Russia remains this very firm authoritarian power with everything under Putin’s control, it would be very hard for Ukraine to gain everything it wants to gain just because Russia is stronger and wealthier and very determined in terms of Putin’s ideology,” said Marten. “But the Russian system is starting to have some cracks in it, and if we are talking about a space of months or a year, that might end up turning things in Ukraine’s favor.”

In any case, she said, it would be wise for Ukraine to formalize bilateral agreements with its Western partners as soon as possible.

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We are so excited to be bringing you a special evening that features literature-in-translation-standard-bearer Archipelago Books titles and translators for our next event at Molasses Books on Friday, December 9th at 8PM. Archipelago's distinctively beautiful books are a personal reference point for what books can feel like, look like, do to us. 

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***Featuring*** three translators working primarily from Spanish/Galician, Greek, and French: Jacob Roger's translation of The Last Days of Terranova by Manuel Rivas from the Galician is particularly suited to the space as the narrator and bookstore owner Vicenzo Fontana contemplates in memory the bookstore a place that is both a refuge from as well as an actor in Argentina's revolutions. Karen Emmerich's co-translation (with Edmund Keeley) of Diaries of Exile by Yannis Ritsos won the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation 2014; of her translation of Good Will Come From the Sea by Christos Ikonomou, Maggie Nelson for NYT Book Reviews writes, "[the first story in the collection] blew my head off with its tender and awful brutality." Mark Polizzotti's translation of the recently-released Kibogo by Rwandan-French author Scholastique Mukasonga has received much praising, but here is perhaps my favorite: "A searing tale of contending gods, religions, and economies in colonial Rwanda [...] Pensive and lyrical; a closely observed story of cultures in collision." (Kirkus, starred.) Read on for more about the readers, and further still for a list of upcoming literary/translation events in the upcoming weeks around  the  city .      

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Jacob Rogers is a translator of Galician and Spanish. He has received grants from the National Endowment of the Arts and the PEN/Heim translation fund. His translations have appeared in The Offing, Arkansas International, Asymptote, Words Without Borders, and Epiphany, among others. His translation of The Last Days of Terranova, by Manuel Rivas, was just released by Archipelago Books.

Karen Emmerich's translations from the Greek include books by Margarita Karapanou, Amanda Michalopoulou, Sophia Nikolaidou, Ersi Sotiropoulos, and Vassilis Vassilikos. Her translation of Miltos Sachtouris for Archipelago was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry and her translation of Yannis Ritsos's Diaries of Exile with Edmund Keeley won the 2014 PEN Literary Award. She teaches at Princeton University.

Mark Polizzotti is a biographer, critic, translator, editor, and poet. In 2016, he received an Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts & Letters and was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. His translation of Scholastique Mukasonga's Kibogo was shortlisted for the National Book Award in 2022 and his translation of Eric Vuillard’s The War of the Poor was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2021. Polizzotti’s books include Revolution of the Mind: The Life of André Breton; Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited; a monograph on Luis Buñuel's Los Olvidados; and Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto. He has translated over fifty books from the French, including works by Patrick Modiano, Gustave Flaubert, Marguerite Duras, Raymond Roussel, André Breton, and Jean Echenoz. He directs the publications program at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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This Saturday, DECEMBER 3RD, 4:30 - 6:00 PM, "Preeminent translator of Russian verse and prose" Ainsley Morse reads a selection of her translations for Translation Mixtape at the Harriman Institute Atrium 

DECEMBER 6TH, 7:00 PM @ The Rockwell Place and hosted by Greenlight Books: Translators Emma Ramadan and Olivia Baes will be discussing their translation of The Easy Life by Margeurite Duras with Stephanie LaCava

Circumference Magazine launches their 10th issue at Black Spring Books on DECEMBER 10th, 7:00 PM, with readings by Mayada Ibrahim, Eunice Lee, Ostap Kin, John Hennessy, Matvei Yankelevich, and more!

The Segue Reading series at Artists Space DECEMBER 17TH at 5:00 PM, featuring Mónica de la Torre and Sue Landers (everytime seeing Mónica read has been incredible) (also check out the series' other events this month).