# Event Details - **Event Name**: Listening for the Sonic Father - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 11 Dec, 2025 at 07:00 pm – Thu, 11 Dec, 2025 at 08:30 pm - **Event Description**: The SNF Rendez-vous de l'Institut : The Fellow's Series: Jason Allen-PaisantAbout this EventListening for the Sonic Father: Language, Loss, and InheritanceProof of registration, via a QR code on your phone or on paper, will be required to enter Reid Hall. Entry will be refused to those who are not registered.Please note that access will not be permitted 15 minutes after the start of the event.This event will be held in English.To be notified of upcoming Institute for Ideas and Imagination events, we invite you to.This presentation introduces Tongues: A Tale of Disfluency, an autofictional novel that moves through the landscapes of rural Jamaica, tracing a boy’s passage through muteness and the search for language. It explores how memory lodges itself in the body and how silence, especially in the wake of abandonment, becomes a kind of speech. Through scenes of bushland wandering, imagined classrooms, and language as performance, the novel asks what it means to grow up where voice is shaped by both absence and vernacular improvisation. Jason Allen-Paisant will reflect on the work’s interweaving of interior life and external constraint, and on how the boy’s embrace of French—his “other tongue”—becomes a form of survival, and of self-making. is a poet, scholar, and writer whose honors include the T.S. Eliot Prize. He is full professor of Critical Theory and Creative Writing at the University of Manchester. He has received fellowships from the Leverhulme Trust, the British Academy, and the University of East Anglia. His books include the philosophical treatise Engagements with Aimé Césaire and the literary nonfiction work The Possibility of Tenderness. He is an associate editor of the literary journal Callaloo.The Rendez-Vous de l’Institut Series is generously supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. You will find a full calendar of the Fellows’ Talks. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/paris/listening-for-the-sonic-father/100001333893895549 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, nonprofit, calendar - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Paris - **state**: IL - **country**: France - **location**: The Institute for Ideas and Imagination - **lat**: 48.8418998 - **long**: 2.331711100000007 - **full address**: The Institute for Ideas and Imagination, Columbia Global Centers | Paris, Reid Hall, Paris, France ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Listening for the Sonic Father - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/6f7897d1f69b1c743b9fd790e64651fe23e221c11799f1c485f52fcf1664c768-rimg-w1200-h763-dcfef3de-gmir.jpg?v=1759843402 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Listening for the Sonic Father being held? - **A:** Listening for the Sonic Father takes place on Thu, 11 Dec, 2025 at 07:00 pm to Thu, 11 Dec, 2025 at 08:30 pm at The Institute for Ideas and Imagination, Columbia Global Centers | Paris, Reid Hall, Paris, France. - **Q**: Who is organizing Listening for the Sonic Father? - **A:** Listening for the Sonic Father is organized by Institute for Ideas and Imagination. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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