2024:
New podcast:
In conversation with Thomas Jones on Enheduana, our earliest known author, for the London Review of Books podcast
2023:
November 22— The Bodleian Library, Oxford
Award ceremony for English PEN’s 2023 Hessell-Tiltman Prize
New podcast:
New Books Network, Anna Della Subin on Accidental Gods with host Carrie Lynn Evans
June 12 at 6pm — Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI), Essen
Virtual talk on Accidental Gods
January 19-23 — Jaipur Literature Festival
In conversation with Katy Hessel on Accidental Gods
In conversation with Martin Puchner on Culture: The Story of Us, from Cave Art to K-Pop
On travel writing with Edmund de Waal and Anthony Sattin
2022:
October 27— Istanbul
Performance-lecture on Not Dead But Sleeping at Arter, Istanbul
October 10 at 6pm — Rizzoli Bookstore, New York City
Joint launch with Marina Warner, organized by New York Review Books
September 17 at 7pm — Venice Biennale
Event for The Book of Gharib with Andrius Arutiunian, Pavilion of Armenia
September 11 at 6pm — International Literature Festival Berlin
Reading and conversation on Accidental Gods with Beatrice Faßbender
September 10 at 9pm — International Literature Festival Berlin
Not Dead But Sleeping: Conversation with Haytham El-Wardany
June 30 at 6pm — Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
An evening in celebration of Accidental Gods with Marina Warner & Mark O’Connell
Radio & podcast:
BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking, on belief, ritual, & accidental deities
With host Rana Mitter and guests Kaveh Akbar, Robin Dunbar, & Dimitris Xygalatas
June 22 at 1pm — York Festival of Ideas
Virtual author talk on Accidental Gods
New podcast:
Politics Theory Other with Anna Della Subin and Alex Doherty
April 20 at 6pm — University of Chicago
New Voices in Nonfiction with Anna Della Subin
Radio & podcast:
“Why we worship men as gods”
KCRW’s Life Examined with Jonathan Bastian
April 9 at 12pm — Cúirt Festival, Galway
“False Gods and Felling Empires: Anna Della Subin and Françoise Vergès”
March 26 at 11am EST
Reading of Accidental Gods for the Essex and Darien Libraries
Podcast:
The Virtual Memories Show: Anna Della Subin with Gil Roth
Podcast:
“Immortal by Mistake: Anna Della Subin on the modern mortals who stumbled into the pantheon”
The American Scholar podcast with Stephanie Bastek
February 17 at 12pm — Harvard Divinity School
“Accidental Deification: Anna Della Subin in conversation with Charles Stang”
Radio & podcast:
“A history of men mistaken for gods with Anna Della Subin”
The Colin McEnroe Show on WNPR
Radio:
BBC Radio Scotland Sunday Morning with Tony Kearney, January 23.
Radio & podcast:
“When Men Accidentally Become Gods w/ Anna Della Subin”
The Majority Report with Sam Seder
Radio:
Times Radio UK with Mariella Frostrup, January 18.
Podcast:
“Anna Della Subin’s Accidental Gods”
LARB Radio Hour w/ Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher
Previous years:
January 15, 2020
“Living with Gods” program for BBC Radio 4 Four Thought
An interview with Anna Della in The Creative Independent, February 2019
November 16, 2018 — New York
Performance of “White Gods” at The Poetry Project
September 5, 2018 — New York
RESCUED FROM THE FIRE: TWO WORKS BY AHMED BOUANANI
With Omar Berrada and Emma Ramadan at McNally Jackson, 52 Prince Street.
August 16, 2017 — New York
REVOLUTION BEGINS IN REVERIE (A SEQUEL), an illustrated lecture to launch the print edition of NOT DEAD BUT SLEEPING. At Triple Canopy, 264 Canal Street.
A recording of the event is archived here.
February 23, 2017 — New York
FOOTPRINT ZERO: artists respond to climate change
Organized by Tamaas at NYU Tisch
An interview with Anna Della in Music & Literature, July 2016
An interview with Anna Della in OOMK, May 2016
January 14, 2016 — London
THE FUTURE WAS ZZZZZ: a short talk on a long repose.
As part of the Global Art Forum 10, presented by Art Dubai at the ICA London.
September 16, 2015 — New York
THE PEOPLE OF THE CAVE: a reading of Tawfiq al-Hakim's 1933 play. With Gini Alhadeff, Omar Berrada, Sukhdev Sandu, Robyn Creswell, Emily Stokes, & Eliot Weinberger to launch the ebook NOT DEAD BUT SLEEPING. At Triple Canopy, 155 Freeman St, Brooklyn.
A recording of the event is archived here.
November 28, 2014 — Marrakech
A talk on Tawfiq al-Hakim, Albert Cossery, political awakenings and centuries of sleep.
Hosted by Dar Al-Ma'mûn at Café Clock in the Kasbah.
November 8, 2014 — Turin
A talk on Haile Selassie, National Geographic, and the birth of the Rastafari religion.
As part of the launch of NEGUS, a book by the Milan-based art collective Invernomuto.
At Artissima / book corner
July 2, 2014 — Oxford
‘Against Procrastination: Albert Cossery and the Politics of Laziness’
A paper given at Procrastination: Cultural Explorations, a conference at the University of Oxford
January 27, 2013 — New York
A talk on Jack Kevorkian, aka Dr. Death, and a screening of his 1980s public access TV program The Door
As part of Bidoun’s “Full Moon Afternoon” event at MoMA PS1
December 6, 2011 — New York
Panelist on “The Voltaire of the Nile: A discussion on Albert Cossery”
Organized by New Directions, NYRB Classics and The Paris Review.