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Aleksandar Hemon's memoir »My Parents« poetically recounts his family’s relocation to Canada during the Bosnian War, his mother’s attempts to keep the family together, his father’s passion for beekeeping, and the losses they and their countrymen have suffered. »Hemon probes the way nationalism can structure ways of thinking and even lives« [New York Times].
Host: Bernhard Robben
Speaker: Frank Arnold
Aleksandar Hemon's memoir »My Parents« poetically recounts his family’s relocation to Canada during the Bosnian War, his mother’s attempts to keep the family together, his father’s passion for beekeeping, and the losses they and their countrymen have suffered. »Hemon probes the way nationalism can structure ways of thinking and even lives« [New York Times].
Host: Bernhard Robben
Speaker: Frank Arnold
![Aleksandar Hemon: My Parents [engl.]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/61lvJnFIVdQ/mqdefault.jpg "Aleksandar Hemon: My Parents [engl.]
Aleksandar Hemons memoir »My Parents« poetically recounts his family’s relocation to Canada during the Bosnian War, his mother’s attempts to keep the family together, his father’s passion for beekeeping, and the losses they and their countrymen have suffered. »Hemon probes the way nationalism can structure ways of thinking and even lives« [New York Times].
Host: Bernhard Robben
Speaker: Frank Arnold")
![Olga Ravn: De Ansatte | The Employees [engl.]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/68ccoqcpUEg/mqdefault.jpg "Olga Ravn: De Ansatte | The Employees [engl.]
With her science fiction satire about corporate language, nominated for the 2021 International Booker Prize, the Danish author takes aim at the workplace in late capitalist society and explores the question of what it means to be human. »She muses on transhumanism, illuminates the dreamlike logic of inner lives, contrasts artistic and religious impulses with the anti-¬human reductionism of corporate jargon« [The Guardian].
Host: Toby Ashraf
Speaker: Katja Hutko")
