World Literature Lecture Series

Join us for a series of lectures on authors from around the world, presented by faculty from CU Boulder and Boulder area literati!

This lecture series is FREE and open to everybody! Please register in advance. Refreshments will be served. *Authors will not be present at the lectures in this series*

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Monday, September 29th, 2025 at 6:30pm

Dominique Goblet

Dominique Goblet is a Belgian artist and comics author. She has published several books with avant-garde comics publishers Frémok and L’Association, including the dazzling autobiography Pretending Is Lying. Goblet was President of the Grand Jury of the Angoulême International Comic Festival in 2019. She lives in Brussels and teaches narrative drawing at the ERG Academy of Fine Arts. She is also a certified electrician, plumber, and welder.

Presented by Catherine Labio, Associate Professor of English

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Monday, October 27th, 2025 at 6:30pm

Olivia Wenzel

Olivia Wenzel is a performer, cultural scientist, musician and author. She was born in Weimar, Germany, and now lives in Berlin. Her novel 1,000 Coils of Fear, published in 2020, is a multilayered and rhythmic debut novel about a Black German woman living in Berlin and New York during the chaos of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Wenzel's work will be discussed alongside Sharon Dodua Otoo’s work Ada’s Realm, a novel spanning generations and continents that reveals the connections between four women in their struggle for survival.

Presented by Adrienne Merritt, Assistant Professor of German

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Monday, February 9th, 2026 at 6:30pm

Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold millions of copies outside Japan. His work spans genres including science fiction, fantasy, and crime fiction, and has become known for his use of magical realist elements.

This lecture will focus on After the Quake. Set at the time of the catastrophic 1995 Kobe earthquake, the mesmerizing stories in After the Quake are as haunting as dreams and as potent as oracles.

Presented by Andrew Gilbert, Assistant Teaching Professor of the Humanities

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Monday, April 6th, 2026 at 6:30pm

Marvel Moreno

Marvel Moreno was a Columbian writer best known for December Breeze, a masterful novel exploring womanhood, class, and tradition in 1950s Colombia. She was chosen by the Columbian magazine Cromos as "one of the hundred most influential women in the history of Colombia."

Presented by Yohainna Abdala-Mesa, Assistant Teaching Professor of Spanish and Portuguese