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New Poems by Jennifer K Dick from CERN 200 in Quasar Review online

 

I want to thank Quasar Review for publishing 3 of my poems from the CERN 200 project in their 3rd issue. Quasar (a name that of course drew me right to them) is just getting underway, putting out mini-journal issues online each month. Click the name here to go to the QUASAR REVIEW home page

Here is a link to the page where you can see all of their issues thus far since July https://2084literary.wixsite.com/the-quasar-review/editions 

 
And here is the link to the flip-book in which my poems appear, on page 5. HERE Hope you will enjoy! This is a screen shot of the page on which they appear. I was, yes, surprised by the blue palm trees--a little extra dimensional visit?  :) Quite fun. And again, thanks Quasar Review! 

 

 

Art-Text by Jennifer K Dick now showing in Australia

 I am thrilled, and humbled, by the invitation to partake in this group art show "" curated by Mayu Kanamori (, then on names to see her works) which opened on 11 Sept 2025 and will be going until 22 Sept 2025 in Canbera, Australia at: Australian National University: Coombs Building Coombs Tea Room Foyer, 9 Fellows Rd Acton, ACT. Here is the image of the window I made a text-paint collage across for Tomashi Inouye:

I was supplied with a name, and some background information, then went out and did more research and reflected on the position of someone in my time, and from my background, trying to address a hidden/lost history of the person I was asked to dedicate a work to: Tomashi Inouye. As I wrote in my artist statement, available at the show's website and in the catalogue: 

(online at: )
 

As for the text, I have continued to revise it and sharpen it, but I have also thought through time of this person I do not, will not, ever know, and hope others will also think of him and the other names that Mayu selected to be part of this wonderful project. As she declared: 

"There is a saying that we die twice: The first time being our physical death.  The second being when our name is mentioned for the last time." --Maya Kanamori 
"When You Call My Name" exhibition statement 

 

Announcing Two New Critical Publications with chapters by Jennifer K Dick

It is with great pleasure that I get to announce the publication, containing chapters by me, of 2 collective critical books that have gone through an astoundingly rigorous re-editing process over the past 2 years (in both cases) and are both now in the world and available. For anyone working at a University, please consider asking your libraries to carry these.

The Borders Between and Within: Writing America with No Bounds, 
Nicoleta Alexoae-Zagni, Pin-chia Feng (Eds.) 
available at LitVerlag: https://lit-verlag.de/isbn/978-3-643-91576-4/ 

in which my chapter: UnderFlag: Language and (Unattainable) Homogenization in the Era of PostnationalCitizenship appears. I focus on the legacy of the work of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha as it dialogues with the practices and reflections in the works of Myung Mi Kim and Craig Santos Perez.

You can order copies directly from the press. Reviewers are definitely welcome to contact the press for copies and certainly Nicoleta and Pin-Chia would be happy, as would any of us in the volume, to participate in any interviews. 

 

The second book which is NOW OUT is  

Vulnérabilité et radicalité: Écritures de soi britanniques et américaines contemporaines
  edited by Nelly Monk et Aude Haffen. 
Les Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, France.  https://www.pub-editions.fr/fr/empreintes-anglophones/5367-vulnerabilite-et-radicalite  

In which my chapter: “The Nonsingular Self: A study of Bhanu Kapiland Eleni Sikelianos’ Poetic Autobiographical Writing” (pp97-116) appears.  This chapter explores indirect notions of autobiographical and poetic documentary writing, from the positions of fluid selves, avatars and alter egos, to selves that overlap others' histories and linguistic practice. These poets do not practice an "I" focused writing of the self but overlap with that multiplicity which makes up all of us, which I try to study also in terms of what that means to socio-political structures. Although I cite from numerous works in both cases, I primarily focus on Kapil's Incubation and on Sikelianos' The Book of Jon, citing other poet-critics' works, such as those of Lyn Hejinian, Laynie Browne, Lisa Samuels, Lisa Robertson and Susan Howe, or theorists such as Donna Haraway, Tiziana Terranoa and Michel de Pracontal. 

It is always such an amazing pleasure to see critical work appear in volumes that have been curated so carefully and intensely edited. My work and reflections were bettered, and deepened, thanks to Nelly Monk, Aude Haffen, Pin-Chia Feng and Nicoleta Alexoae-Zagni's intense readings, comments and queries, as well as the feedback and the demands made on me by the anonymous scientific panel readers of this work. 

I am grateful to get to be part of such wonderful books, and hope that you will consider reading, teaching and writing back to us about your experiences with these books! 

 

The Eights--Launch, Celebration, Reading on 14 June in PARIS at 8pm

 

Every year going back quite a few now, it has been essential to my friends and I to remember the PLAY in art, and to let go of the ego and the eye and make poems together. This project was inspired by The 3:15 Experiment published by The Owl Press in 2001 which collected together writing by Bernadette Mayer, Danika Dinsmore, Lee Anne Brown and Jen Hofer. When my friends--Lisa Pasold, Barbara Beck, Michelle Noteboom and I--read that book, we decided to add a twist to the idea of knowing we were all writing at the same time: we wrote at the same time (our first time at midnight) for 10 days, but then we gave these writings to each other (we call these our "pre-writes"). From these pages of prewrites, we make--what we call "orchestrate"--poems. Most often, we have each supplied 4 poems of some sort to the collections which we then have self designed into chapbooks and then thrown public parties from friends who gather, share food and drink, and listen to a little reading linked to the time of the original writing--that first being, Midnight! I still remember the candelabra at Lisa Pasold's house and our lovely friends who came out to share with us the pretty first object we had made together. 

Now we have moved well around the clock. And this year it was the turn of the 8. Most of us wrote 8, or oddly 7 or 9 (poets can't count, or refuse to, rather!) We have been ordering and laying out our chapbook and Friday night we will be at Lisa's place putting the final touches into this year's cover. We have, in the past, stencilled, sewn, patched, staple-bound, wrapped and strung in a variety of ways our A5 sized "DoItYourself" editions; This year, we have added a twist and the binding will come from a new direction. Should be fun. Hope you can join us. We do host our events at a private house, and ask anyone who attends to treat this like a neighborhood potluck--bring some food to share, or / and drinks. In recent years we have also associated a cocktail creation with our reading events. To save us from over imbibing, we did NOT choose to make a cocktail containing 8 ingredients! The base this spring will be whiskey and the rest is for you to sample this delectable concoction sur place Saturday. 

Cost of our chaps? We sell them at cost. All the labor and the time are our gift to you--and each other! 

And, because the 8s allowed me to go look at a LOT of great octopus images, here is another invite image for you: 

Photos thanks to FabFunky: get that blue and white octopus print at https://www.fabfunky.com/products/octopus-8-blue-nautical-print-coastal-art?variant=48004608524608 The second image is on Pintrest
 

Upcoming curation & chairing with Jennifer K Dick May 2025

Hoping to catch up with everyone in the coming weeks and month as I support other artists and writers, as well as academics and as they also support me. Here is where I will be at--hope to see you all!

I ) TUESDAY 20th May 2025 IVY WRITERS PARIS, which I had the great luck to co-found with Michelle Noteboom in 2004/2005 is having an evening of bilingual poetry with Margo Berdeshevsky and Vianney Lacombe. At Café de la Marie, 8 place Saint Supplice at 19h. 

 II) Wednesday 21st May 2025 AUTOUR(S) : Soirée de lectures-Performances par des jeunes créateurs dans le cadre de la Biennale des Commencements 2025 à Mulhouse.
Direction artistique : Jennifer K. Dick (poète /UHA) et Jérôme Game (poète / HEAR)

      Deux poètes-enseignant.es accompagnent six jeunes écrivain.es sélectionné.es dans l’atelierde création littéraire de Jérôme Game à la HEARdans la présentationpublique de leurs textes lorsd’une soirée de lectures tout autour des arbres magnifiques duparchistoriquede la ville de Mulhouse : le parcSteinbach, dansles jardins du Musée desBeaux-Arts.
          Réunissantdespublics variés en un lieuemblématiquedu lien que la ville entretientavecla nature, « Autour(s) »souhaite faire entendre unepolyphonie de voix poétiques tissant des enjeux partagés: del’expérience des corpsà celle de l’identité, de l’épreuve duprésentà la promesse d’un aveniren commun.

Les lectures pourrontêtre suiviesd’un temps d’échange avecle public.

https://www.hear.fr/agenda/autours/
— Mercredi 21 mai 2025, à partir de 17h
Musée des Beaux-Arts,
4 Place Guillaume Tell, Mulhouse
Entrée libre

III)  I will be chairing the Ghosts and Religion Panel 2 at the International Conference: GHOSTS, 22-23 May 2025, co-organized by Sami Ludwig and Regine Battiston with the ILLE Labo de Recherche in the FLSH building, salle Ganjavi at UHA-Campus Illberg, 10 rue des frères lumières, Mulhouse.
The conference goes from 13h-evening of the 22nd and then 9-19h on the 23rd of May. Here is full information: https://www.ille.uha.fr/international-conference-ghosts-22-23-may-2025/

And the information on my panel:
16h30  session2: Ghosts in Religion and Mythology
Chair: Jennifer K. Dick, UHA Mulhouse
      Myriam Ackermann-Sommer, Sorbonne, Paris
kaylasommer@gmail.com
Ghost Stories form the Talmud: Exploring and Redefining Liminality
     Tahmineh Hosseinzadehkhabir, UHA Mulhouse
tahmineh.hosseinzadehkhabir@uha.fr
Div in Persian Mythology: the ghost of an enemy?
     Zainabu Jallo, University of Basel
zainabu.jallo@unibas.ch
The Égun Sect and Apparitions of Ilha de Itaparica, Bahia

 

Organizing and speaking this week on Bhanu Kapil in Mulhouse

In Mulhouse this week, I have organized a conference on and with Bhanu Kapil "The Somatics of Bhanu Kapil's Immigrant/Emigrant Line". For full information, programme and abstracts please go to: HERE 

It will start off with Kapil herself giving a talk/reading from current performance projects for ILLE in Salle Ganjavi of the FLSH, 10 rue frères lumières 68100 Mulhouse. The talk is "The Forest on the Border: returning, leaving, returning again"

 

This will be followed by us all going to the vernissage at La Kunsthalle Mulhouse Centre d'Art Contemporaine at 16 rue de la Fonderie at 18h for the opening of Se Faire Plaisir. For full information on that, go to the Kunsthalle Website.

The next morning will begin an all-day series of talks on Kapil in Amphi Weiss on the Illberg Campus of UHA during which I will also speak (giving the talk Coming Full Circle: Incubation: A(nother)Space for Monsters in the final afternoon panel. The journée d'étude will close with a conversation with Kapil followed by, at 18h, a group reading in multiple languages of extracts from her books in the Maison de l'étudiant at the bottom of the hill on the Illberg Campus of UHA. I hope everyone can join us!

Where you will find me: reflecting on and with Bhanu Kapil 14-15 Nov 2024

This week the amazing Poets & Critics will be hosting a 2 day event on and with the author Bhanu Kapil at Université Paris Cité, Bâtiment Olympe de Gouges, 8 rue Albert Einstein, 75013 Paris 9:45 am-5 pm, room OdG 830 (8th floor of the Olympe de Gouges Building). 

I have long admired Kapil's work, both as a poet and a critic. I am very much looking forward to getting to converse with her and other scholars about her work, and to attend the READING organized at Michael Woolworth's wonderful atelier space tomorrow night organized by Double Change with Bhanu Kapil, Nadid Belaatik & Catherine Weinzaepflen: ((info on that HERE)

If you would like to read some of the initial critical work I have written on Kapil, please visit my Academia.edu space:  https://uha.academia.edu/JenniferKDick Under the section "Papers/Chapters in English" you can download the PDF chapter from the Colors and Cultures book, which is also available for sale on Amazon. “The Dissenting Red Self: Lyn Hejinian's Tribunal, AnneCarson's Autobiography of Red & Bhanu Kapil's Incubation: A Space forMonsters” by Jennifer K Dick in Couleurs et Cultures /Colors and Cultures: Interdisciplinary Explorations eds Sami Ludwig, AstridStarck-Adler & André Karliczek. 2022. ISBN: 978-3-00-073026-9. (364 p), pp.143-152.

 And if you remain interested in what I am thinking and writing about Kapil, I will have a chapter which is on her and Eleni Sikelianos in this forthcoming book:

Forthcomingin early 2025 : Dick, Jennifer K “TheNonsingular Self: A study of Bhanu Kapil and Eleni Sikelianos’ PoeticAutobiographical Writing” in  Vulnerabilityand radicality in contemporary British and American autobiographies, eds Nelly Monk & Aude Haffen. Presses Universitairesde Bordeaux. (slotted for first quarter of 2025 publication) 

I will also be hosting a one day journée d'étude on and in the presence of Bhanu Kapil on February 14, 2025 in Mulhouse, France. Here is the DRAFT of the CFP. The final version will begin to be posted online over the coming weekend, following the events here in Paris and potentially with additions or alterations to it based on the dialogues which take place in the coming days. Join me in Mulhouse for more on Kapil!

Draft of the CFP: Journée d’étude “TheSomatics of Bhanu Kapil’s Emigrant/Immigrant Line.” February 14, 2025,Université de Haute Alsace-Campus Illberg, Mulhouse, France. Organized with the support of the ILLE labo de Recherche and the English Dept of the Université de Haute Alsace.

 

“It is arrival in reverse to approach an ocean. Areyou an immigrant? Don’t panic, immigrant. There are places to curl up in undera cliff, in a cave, and in the morning you will be covered with starfishopening and closing all over your body. Encrusted, riveted, bright orange, whatwill you do? What will you do with your new body? What will you make it do?”–Kapil, Incubation (80)

 

The goal of this journée d’étude isto, in the presence of the author, begin positing what a critical poetics ofBhanu Kapil’swritings with a focus on issues of migration might look like. This is, however,to take migration as both physical and stylistic, including literary migrationbetween forms and formats of expression. For example, how Incubation: ASpace for Monsters could be read as a mode of re-visiting Donna Haraway’s ACyborg Manifesto or even rewriting it from the POV of the cyborg herself, whyfilming then writing in the location of the “Bengali Wolf Girls” gave rise to Humanimal:A Project for Future Children, or how, in Ban en Banlieue, a parallelarises in her many notes/instructions and the moments of placing her body (à laAna Mendieta) in a space, tracing it, filling that trace with flowers,examining the red flowers wilting and locating in that cycle of life/death “Abook of time, for time and because of it./A book for recovery from an illness.A book that repeats a sentence until that sentence recuperates its power toattract, or touch, other sentences./ A book as much poetry as it is a forbiddenor unfunded area of research.”

The body and thewritten line have always been intimately, intrinsically linked in Kapil’sworks. Foregoing the declarative, the stable, the conclusive, Kapil’s writinghas always been a form of open-ended interrogation, including works that evenemerge from asking others, and herself, a series of questions over and over, asin her first book Vertical Interrogation of Strangers. Kapil invitesreaders to engage, to enter, to be part of her texts. In this day and age, manyauthors explore hybrid genres and practices which expand into performance thenreturn to the book. Works which defy definition. What Kapil’s work does whichis unique to this exploration is to deny that any difference between on and offthe page, the written the read and the being written exist in any way asseparate from the body. The tactile materiality of the world itself andlanguage are one, as her citing of Alfonso Lingis’ Abuses opens Humanimal:“They open up a body that is a lesion in the tissue of words and discourses andthe network of powers”. As Kapil explains quite directly in an interview: “I want a form that […] lets the sentence be the placewhere the dirt, or fractal matter, of the diasporic body: might adhere.”

This conference willthus deliberately focus on a broad reading of the issues, stylistic aspects andechoes both on and off of the page of Bhanu Kapil’s writing and performancework as it relates specifically to the somatics of her immigrant/emigrant line.It invites new understandings to probe the more analytic end of Kapil’sintertextuality and mobility, including the way it exists in a dialogic spacewith works across a variety of genres, artistic mediums and themes. We invitecontributions on a range of topics, including, but not limited to:

- Questions regardingborders/citizenship and nomadism;

--Tandem issues withthe above focusing on emigration/immigration;

- Talks which take aspecific look at “the experiences of diaspora communities in India, England orAmerica”;

- Issues regardingmovement / migration and hitchhiking;

- The body: celebrating  and healing it, or its rejection, treatmentas “disposable”, in pain;

-The enigmatic inKapil: and its relationship to understanding, knowledge or inquiry;

- Kapil’s work as aform of trauma writing (or post-trauma writing);

- Questions of self-knowledgeand definition (or self-annihilation) in Kapil’s writing;

- The topic ofmind-body (care, health, attention, definition, etc.);

- Scars of language and body alongside notions of narrativesas potential modes for healing (both as read and written);

- Feminist issues inKapil;

- Kapil’s relationship to the(inside-out) Feminist Cyborg theories of Donna Haraway and (outside-in)cognitive science-based cyborg theories of Andy Clark.

- Kapil’s works as fictional(auto)biography;

- Questions ofotherness and monstrosity and/or Cyborgs in Kapil;

- the response tofolklore in Kapil’s work;

- Reflections on Kapil’sreinventions of genre, or even a perceived progression in her work;

- The interrogationof other (and self) in Kapil’s works;

- How the politicaland the artist coincide;

- Kapil’s works asforms of metamorphosis;

- Topics of memoryand temporality in Kapil;

- Intermedialmethodologies in her oeuvre (on and off the page);

            -Racism and violence in Kapil’s writing;

            -Hospitality and community vs assimilation;

            -Writing as a mode of healing;

            -The use and significance of specific colors in Kapil’s works;

            -Writingas a mode of becoming;

            -Kapil’s books as radical forms of travelogue.

 

Proposals (ca. 300-500 words) for 30-minutepapers and a biographical note should be sent to jennifer-kay.dick[at]uha.fr by 10 December 2024. We welcomeexperimental or creative-critical approaches to papers. The committee willcommunicate their decisions by 16 December 2024. Contributions will beconsidered for inclusion in a peer-reviewed volume or special issue of ajournal.

 

Organization and contact: JenniferK Dick (Université de Haute Alsace, Mulhouse)

 

Coordinating Committee:

BastienGoursaud (Université de Picardie Jules Verne)

Silya Bennamar(Université de Haute Alsace, Mulhouse)

BhanuKapil is the author of six full-length collections: The VerticalInterrogation of Strangers (Kelsey Street Press, 2001), Incubation:a space for monsters (Leon Works, 2006), humanimal [a projectfor future children] (Kelsey Street Press, 2009), Schizophrene (Nightboat,2011), Ban en Banlieue (Nightboat, 2015), and How toWash a Heart (Liverpool University Press, 2020).Two new, non-identicaleditions of Incubation (out of print for seven years in theU.S.) were published by Prototype (UK) and Kelsey Street Press (USA) in 2023.Bhanu is based now in Cambridge, where she is an Extraordinary Fellow ofChurchill College, thinking and writiing [with] [near] [beneath] the archive ofEnoch Powell. She has been awarded a Cholmondeley Award, a Windham-CampbellPrize and the T.S. Eliot Prize. For twenty years, she taught seminars inexperimental writing, performance, and ritual at Naropa University. Currentmanuscripts include a novel, The Secret Garden, and anunpublishable work of creative non-fiction, Promiscuity. (Source: Bio taken from Poets & Critics https://www.poetscritics.org/ who organized a 2 day seminar-discussion and readingwith Kapil in Paris in Nov 2024. Some of the organizers from this event willshare the findings and outcome of their seminar with us).

 

 

 

Tonight La Soirée Inquiétante 2024 Election Night Readings at Delaville

 Dear all. I am hosting and reading as part of tonight's 2024 Presidential Election Night in Paris, France, readings, performances and film extract projections with projections on screen of news as it begins to come in from the States. I hope you will join me in supporting democracy and hope, and doing our nail biting together as an international community with Ivy Writers Paris. Here is the information for that:

LA SOIREE INQUIETANTE

Le 5 novembre 2024 à partir de 19h30

IvyWriters Paris invites you to an evening of readings,performances & news

as it rolls infrom

the 2024 USA PresidentialElection

At:   DelavilleCafé, au 1er étage, 34 boulevard Bonne Nouvelle,

75010 Paris M° Bonne nouvelle (ligne 8 or 9)

Readers/artistsinclude : 

Cole Swensen 

Margo Berdeshevsky 

David Barnes

Carrie Chappell

Kate Van Houten 

Barbara Beck

Roberta Vellve 

Alison Koehler

 EkBartlett

Michelle Noteboom 

Nina Zivancevic 

Jennifer Kildore-Caradec

Frederic Forté 

Jennifer K Dick

Marie Regan 

Nina Karacosta 

Rufo Quintavalle 

Esther Sherrow 

Jennifer Huxta 

Kristen D. Sanders

Virginie Poitrasson 

Cassandra Prerost 

Mic Jones

Rebecca Dolinsky 

Alma Metcalf 

Sarah Petlin 

Véronique Pittolo 

plus filmextractsby Gilles Weinzaepflan& Florence Manlik

and an open mic for the die hard late stayers--which I imagine will supply us with AMAZING additional voices!

Jennifer K Dick reads in CHICAGO on Aug 3, 2024

In case any of you will be in CHICAGO on the 3rd of August, 

I will be there reading at 6pm:

Jennifer K Dick reading alongside 

artist and author Alison Koehler 

and 

artist Evelina Mayner 

for their art show at Baltic Art Studio, 

4346 N Milwaukee Ave, 

Chicago, IL. Reading is the 3rd of August at 6pm!

Recent academic Talks:

 Recently participated in these wonderful conferences this fall: 

28-30 novembre: PHILIPPE BECK: UNE AUTRE CLARTE organized by Paris-Cité and Virginia Tech. I gave the talk: Création et didactique : la place de la penséedans l’œuvre récente de Philippe Beck by Jennifer K Dick

Cette intervention poserait des questions et des réflexions sur l'usage detrois styles de pensée "didactique" dans la poésie du livre Ryrkaïpii(Flammarion, 2023) de Philippe Beck. Style 1: l’énonciation dans un ordreénuméré (a, b, c).  Style 2: l’emploi dusigne « égale » en contraste avec son usage des deux points. Style 3: Phrases du type « axiome » (qui vont en paire avec desquestions, souvent rhétoriques). Pour cette troisième "styledidactique", j'ai aussi proposé des sous-catégories des axiomes :Catégorie 1 : axiome directe, Catégorie 2: axiome-observation, Catégorie3:  axiome d’insistance :emphatique, Catégorie 4:  axiome del’ordre taxonomique et Catégorie 5: axiome avec une logique parconnexions. Pour conclure: je montrerai comment l'usage des styles didactiquescontribuent, dans cet œuvre, à établir l'énigme et à établir un espace detransformation.

24 November 2023: Participated in the Round Table at the close of the MICROSCOPIC IMAGINARIES IN 20th and 21st CENTURY LITERATURE Journée d'étude at la Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris.  

Round Table with: Sarah Bouttier (Ecole Polytechnique), Jennifer K. Dick (Université de Haute Alsace), Catherine Larose (Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement) and Dorothy Lehane (Litmus Publishing). We discussed poems by the following authors: Jen Bervin, Pattiann Rogers, Les Murray, Adam Dickinson, and Simon Smith--adding some remarks on Christian Bök. 

9 and 10 October 2023: Gave a talk on the 10th of October for the International and quite interdisciplinary conference "BORDERS IN THE ENGLISH SPEAKING WORLD: MAPPING AND COUNTER-MAPPING" at la MISHA, Université de Strasbourg.  My talk was:  De-or re-routing California in Fugitive Assemblage by Jennifer Calkins

Mapping loss, ancestral history and the self onto the backbones of California: the roadways, no-tell motels, tourist sites and natural landscapes that surround and are embedded in the body and history of the speaker, Fugitive Assemblage (the 3rd Thing, Washington, 2020) is a work both deconstructing and reconstructing self and geographic (s)place. What makes us whole? What tears and rends us? Calkins' fragmented, collaged (including specific geographical maps) road-trip, which intended to go straight up the 105, takes a detour and thus maps, accidentally, the state onto the event haunting this story. Or rather, it is the map of place that makes this story about a rending from a whole. It asks what is native/who is native of a place? What is place over time? What borders are we allowed to traverse in what directions (north-south into and out of Mexico, south-north as a questionable return)? This talk will explore the intimate lineage of self and place as it is mapped and as the map is followed and detoured from in Calkins' unusual “assemblage”. Is the author scrambling the maps of California, or rather, in her own search for clarity, straightening the lines and the lineages of space and place back into place? Can we map our way home? Are maps redrawn by personal trips and the order we follow the lines of a place? Where do navigation and mapping collide? This literary work provides a form of counter-mapping demanding exploration in the context of a conference on mapping and counter-mapping like this one in Strasbourg. 

Keep an eye out for publication announcements following these events!