Hello Friends!
The Harvard Club of Berlin invites readers of the Carl Kruse Blog to an evening discussion with renown author Jamaica Kincaid on November 5 at 6:30pm at Restaurant Luther & Wegner, Charlottenstr. 56 10117 Berlin.
The invite is below.
Cheers!
Carl Kruse
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Dear members and friends of the Harvard Community in Berlin,
The Harvard Cub of Berlin is honored to invite you to a Leadership Dinner with Jamaica Kincaid.
Jamaica Kincaid will begin with a short reading followed by a conversation on her experiences as a writer and professor at Harvard University as well as her impressions so far as an American Academy Fellow in Germany.
The evening will be moderated by Clara Péron, the club’s vice president.
About Jamica Kincaid:
Jamaica Kincaid is a writer and Professor Emerita of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She holds honorary degrees from Amherst College, Tufts University, Middlebury College, and the University of the West Indies, among others. Celebrated for her evocative reflections on family, memory, gender, colonialism, her native Antigua, and gardening, Kincaid is the author of numerous award-winning and widely translated essays, short stories, and novels, including At the Bottom of the River (1983), Annie John (1985), Lucy (1990), A Small Place (1988), The Autobiography of My Mother (1996), My Brother (1997), Mr. Potter (2002), Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalayas (2005), See Now Then (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013), and most recently An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children (with Kara Walker; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024). Her “Talk of the Town” columns for The New Yorker appeared in Talk Stories (2001). She is the winner of the 2022 Paris Review Hadada Prize for Lifetime Achievement, 2017 Dan David Prize, a 2014 American Book Award and 2000 Prix Femina Étranger, among many other awards. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2004, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009.
We look forward to seeing you at our Leadership Dinner.
When?: Wednesday, November 5, 2025, at 6:30 pm
Where?: Restaurant Luther & Wegner
Charlottenstraße 56, 10117 Berlin
Dresscode: Smart Casual
Tickets:
Members & partners: 45 € p.p.
Non-Members: 55 € p.p.
Welcome drinks and two course menu are included.
Drinks with the meal will be charged separately.
30 tickets are available for this event.
Please register via the following link: Registration until October 29, 2025.
Payment options:
- Bank transfer: Please transfer the ticket to our bank account:
Harvard University Alumni Club of Berlin e.V.
IBAN: DE33 1007 0848 0036 7532 00
BIC: DEUTDEDB110
Reference: your name & HLD Kincaid
- Paypal: frohn@pwwl.de family and friends
Reference: your name & HLD Kincaid
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Other events with the Harvard Club in Berlin include A Chat With Gregor Schmitz, Should Europe Develop More Nuclear Bombs, and Democracy and the Rise of Authoritarianism.