The Annual Meeting

The Annual Meeting & Cincinnati History Lecture
The Outsider: The Life and Work of Lafcadio Hearn
Delivered by Steve Kemme
AGENDA
4:00 pm DOORS
4:30 pm BUSINESS MEETING and 2024 SEASON ANNOUNCEMENT
4:50 pm CINCINNATI HISTORY LECTURE
Free to members. Reservations required.
R.S.V.P. by January 15 via ticketing or email
For more information: 513.621.0717

Join us to hear about our 2024 Season, 12th Story Expansion, AND
Cincinnati’s most enigmatic and controversial figure, Lafcadio Hearn.

Author Steve Kemme will have you step into the extraordinary life of the man who made an impact as an observer wherever he lived, and went on to become the leading western interpreter of Japan and Japanese culture--a position he still occupies today.

Born in Greece and abandoned as a child, Lafcadio Hearn lived the life of an exile. He travelled the world and became a famous writer but always felt like an outsider--in Dublin, London, Cincinnati, New Orleans, and French-speaking Martinique. To him, none of these places felt like home.

Steve Kemme is president of the Lafcadio Hearn Society/USA and a former reporter for the Cincinnati Enquirer, where Hearn formerly worked. He is a member of the Japan Research Center of Greater Cincinnati and has spoken at Hearn symposiums worldwide.