160 Speaker Series: Animal Joy – On Laughter and Resuscitation

Thursday Sep 29, 2022, 4:00 PM → 5:00 PM America/New_York

Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA (162 5th Avenue)

We look forward to welcoming you to the 160 Speaker Series talk, Animal Joy – On Laughter and Resuscitation, with Nuar Alsadir on Thursday, September 29 at 4:00 p.m. in the Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium at 162 Fifth Avenue.

Laughter shakes us out of our deadness. An outburst of spontaneous laughter is an eruption from the unconscious that, like political resistance, poetry, or self-revelation, expresses a provocative, impish drive to burst free from external constraints.Taking laughter’s revelatory capacity as a starting point, and rooted in Nuar Alsadir’s experience as a poet and psychoanalyst, her most recent collection of essays, Animal Joy, seeks to recover the sensation of being present and embodied. In this talk, she will share excerpts from these essays and discuss the inspiration that led her to write this ode to spontaneity and feeling alive. 

Speaker Bio:

Alsadir is the author of a book of nonfiction, Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation, and two poetry collections: Fourth Person Singular, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Forward Prize for Best Collection, and More Shadow Than Bird. She works as a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York.

Event Schedule:
4:00 — 5:00 p.m. Talk in the IDA
5:00 — 6:00 p.m. Reception of light bites and drinks on the promenade

Questions? esimolke@simonsfoundation.org

We hope to see you there!