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Mar 30, 2026
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Gisèle Pelicot joins us for an unforgettable discussion about the nature of shame and sexual assault — and a conversation and reading about her new memoir, A Hymn to Life.
“Shame must change sides,” Gisèle Pelicot declared at the opening of her ex-husband’s trial. In the years following shattering revelations that her husband had been secretly drugging and raping her and invited dozens of strangers into their home to abuse her for nearly a decade, Pelicot's words have become a rallying cry around the world. Emboldening victims of sexual abuse to let go of their shame, she has galvanized a movement to fundamentally alter our perspectives on victimhood and violence. In A Hymn to Life, Pelicot tells her story for the very first time — not as victim, but as witness. It is a story of survival, courage, and moral reckoning.
In a special conversation and reading, her only US event, Pelicot speaks, with candor and grace, to the unfathomable traumas of her past and the long path of emotional healing. She is an ordinary person who has faced extraordinary catastrophe, whose example changes the world.
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