Join Hendershot, author of When the News Broke, on a virtual event hosted by the Wilson Center

Webinar: "When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America"

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Roxana Robinson will be a guest speaker at Van Doren's first solo exhibition at Furnace-Art on Paper Archive

“Tangled Language” is Van Doren’s first solo exhibition at Furnace-Art on Paper Archive. She has also had solo shows at Longview Gallery in St. Louis and the Cornwall Library and been in group shows at Furnace and Five Points Gallery in Torrington CT. 

 

Roxana Robinson will be reading from her new and expanded edition of, A Life Georgia O'Keeffe published by Brandeis University Press, 2020. When Roxana Robinson’s definitive biography of O’Keeffe was first published in 1989, it received rave reviews and was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. This new edition features a new foreword by the author setting O’Keeffe in an artistic context over the last thirty years since the book was first published, as well as previously unpublished letters of the young O’Keeffe to her lover, Arthur Macmahon.

Live at MTM: Allison M. Prasch in Conversation with Kenneth R. Mayer

Allison M. Prasch is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on the intersections of rhetorical theory and history, U.S. presidential rhetoric, foreign policy, and space/place. Her first book, The World is Our Stage: The Global Rhetorical Presidency and the Cold War (University of Chicago Press, 2023), examines how U.S. presidents used their international travels to expand the reach of presidential power and extend the United States’ global influence.

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Professor Marjorie Agosin will speak via Zoom as part of the UCSB Taubman Symposium

Professor Marjorie Agosin (Department of Spanish, Wellesley) will speak on the journeys of Latin American Jewish feminists.  She is a Chilean-American has written more than 14 books in Spanish and English and many scholarly and popular articles.  She has received extensive notability for her outspokenness for women’s rights in Chile.  The United Nations has honored her for her work on human rights and the Chilean government awarded her with the Gabriela Mistral Medal of Honor for Life Achievement.  Among the awards she has received are the Letras de Oro, the Latino Literary Prize and the Peabody Award, together with the United Nations Leadership Award in Human Rights.

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Join Atsuro Riley, incredible Bay Area poet at the famed Hotel Utah Saloon for an evening of live poetry

Atsuro Riley is the author of Heard-Hoard (University of Chicago Press, 2021), winner of the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, a finalist for PEN America’s Voelcker Poetry Award, a Boston Globe Best Book of 2021, and a Bookworm Top 10 Book of the Year.

His first book Romey’s Order was the winner of the Whiting Award, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, The Believer Poetry Award, the Witter Bynner Award from the Library of Congress, and a Lannan Literary Award.

Riley will be join by Patrick Phillips and Francesa Bell. For more information, click here.

Join Alex Ketchum for a talk about her new book Ingredients for Revolution: A History of Feminist Restaurants, Cafes, and Coffeehouses.

Join Alex Ketchum for a talk about her new book Ingredients for Revolution: A History of Feminist Restaurants, Cafes, and Coffeehouses. The book is the first history of the more than 230 feminist and lesbian-feminist restaurants, cafes, and coffeehouses that existed in the United States from 1972 to the present. Ketchum will address questions such as: What is a feminist restaurant? Why have LGBTQ+ spaces been important historically AND why are they still important today.

There will be a signing and brief Q&A.
 

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Arcenas, author of America’s Philosopher, will be the subject of a virtual panel discussion held by the Washington History Seminar

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Join Alex Ketchum for a talk about the role food plays in movements for social change

Wren Awry, editor of Nourishing Resistance: Stories of Food, Protest, and Mutual Aid (2023), and Alex Ketchum, author of Ingredients for Revolution: A History of American Feminist Restaurants, Cafes, and Coffeehouses (2022), will join us for an exploration of the role food plays in movements for social change. Drawing on their recently published books, Wren and Alex uncover the liberatory potential of shared meals.

 

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Join Alex D. Ketchum in conversation with Jaime Harker for a celebration of Ingredients for Revolution: A History of American Feminist Restaurants, Cafes, and Coffeehouses.

Since 2018, Dr. Alex Ketchum has been the Faculty Lecturer of the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies of McGill University. She is the Director of the Just Feminist Tech and Scholarship Lab and the organizer of Disrupting Disruptions: The Feminist and Accessible Publishing, Communications, and Tech Speaker and Workshop Series. Her work integrates food, environmental, technological, and gender history.

This event is co-hosted by Violet Valley Books and Burdock Book Collective. To register, and to get more information, click here.

Dan Pallotta’s Uncharitable documentary adaptation will premiere at Lincoln Center in New York

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Neubauer, author of Beginning to End the Climate Crisis, will be featured during the 25th anniversary celebration of the Center for German and European Studies at Brandeis University

To kick off our 25th anniversary celebration, we are planning a conference in coordination with Brandeis' Year of Climate Action (YOCA) and the launch of our director Sabine von Mering’s English translation of Luisa Neubauer and Alex Repenning's book, Beginning to End the Climate Crisis: A History of Our Future. Join us to celebrate CGES and enjoy a stimulating conversation on German climate action, climate justice, and climate activism, and what must be done to protect a livable future.

 

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Rabbi Joseph A. Skloot, author of First Impressions, will lecture at the 92nd Street Y

Encased in leather, embossed in gold, the classics of ancient and medieval Jewish literature appear to exist today as they always have. But these books became what they are during the 16th century, in the Hebrew print shops of Venice, Bologna, and Basel. Explore how the Jewish bookshelf came to be with historian Joseph A. Skloot.

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Steinberg, author of Every Goddamn Day, will have an event with the Hyde Park Book Club

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Giuliana Bruno, author of Atmospheres of Projection, will have an event at Centre Pompidou

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