Please join us in New York City as André Aciman, Craig Dykers, Elaine Molinar, and Joseph Viscomi discuss their shared connections to the city of Alexandria, Egypt. In his memoir Out of Egypt (1995), André Aciman described the now lost Alexandria of his youth. (Aciman is also the author of Call Me by Your Name, recently adapted into a hit film now in theaters.) Craig Dykers and Elaine Molinar’s architecture firm, Snøhetta, designed the Bibliotheca Alexandria in 2002, and the building was movingly defended by citizens of Alexandria during the upheavals of early 2011. And Joseph Viscomi’s first manuscript, tentatively entitled “Out of Time: History, Presence, and the Departure of the Italians of Egypt, 1933–Present,” details how the Italians of Egypt—a population that numbered around 55,000 on the eve of WWII—anticipated, experienced and remembered their departures from Egypt.

The speakers are:

• André Aciman, Distinguished Professor, Graduate Center, City University of New York (2015 Resident)
• Craig Dykers, Partner, Snøhetta (2015 Resident)
• Elaine Molinar, Partner, Snøhetta (2015 Visiting Artist)
• Joseph Viscomi, Faculty Fellow, Center for European and Mediterranean Studies, New York University (2015 Fellow)