Sukhdev Sandhu and Simon Strauss 'Language and Lonliness'

Sukhdev Sandhu is the Director of the Center for Experimental Humanities and Associate Professor of English and Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, and author of books including London Calling: How Black and Asian Writers Imagined a City, I’ll Get My Coat and Night Haunts: A Journey through the London Night. The former chief film critic for the Daily Telegraph, he lives in New York and London and and is a regular writer for publications including Sight & Sound, the London Review of Books, Modern Painters, the Times Literary Supplement, Suddeutsche Zeitung, Du, the Wire, Bidoun, Gastronomica, the Australian, Modernism/Modernity, New York and the Guardian. Simon Strauß is a German historian, writer and journalist (FAZ). He studied classical studies and history in Basel, Poitiers and Cambridge. His latest book, Römische Tage, was published in June 2019 by Tropen Verlag. This video was filmed live at the Alpine Fellowship 2024 Symposium in Tuscany, Italy. The event was held in partnership with Bard College through the Open Society University Network and supported in part by a grant from the Open Society Foundations.