Our 2024 Keynote Speaker is Emily St. John Mandel!

it is our absolute pleasure to announce that next year's keynote speaker will be Emily St. John Mandel.

Emily is the bestselling author of numerous novels, including Station Eleven, The Glass Hotel, and (most recently) Sea of Tranquility. Her novel Station Eleven, which was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, won the 2015 Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Toronto Book Award, and the Morning News Tournament of Books, and was adapted into a limited series for HBO. A previous novel, The Singer's Gun, was the 2014 winner of the Prix Mystere de la Critique in France. Her short fiction and essays have been anthologized in numerous collections, including Best American Mystery Stories 2013. She is a staff writer for The Millions.

We can’t wait to welcome Emily to Columbia. Tickets – which, as always, will be free for everyone – will be available for reservation in early 2024. Watch this space for more details!