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Istanbul Center for Middle Eastern Studies event
Istanbul Center for Middle Eastern Studies event
April 5, 2018 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
University Avenue, University Ave, Berkeley, CA, USA
Panelists will discuss their new volume Istanbul: Living with Difference in a Global City (Rutgers University Press, 2018) which asks: What does Istanbul teach us, for better or for worse, about living with the Other? The interdisciplinary group of contributors hail from politics, international studies, area studies, urban studies, sociology, anthropology, and geography. Chapters examine historical and contemporary strategies for living with diversity pursued by, among others, religious majorities/minorities, migrants, environmentalists, and the LGBTQ movement.
https://cmes.berkeley.edu/istanbul-living-with-difference-in-a-global-city/
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Samantha Gottlieb Not Quite a Cancer Vaccine talk
Samantha Gottlieb Not Quite a Cancer Vaccine talk
April 5, 2018 @ 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
College Avenue, College Ave, Swarthmore, PA 19081, USA
A book talk and Q&A with Samantha Gottlieb at Swarthmore College, Kohlberg 115
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Alexandra Cox TRAPPED IN A VICE talk at Old Dominion University
Alexandra Cox TRAPPED IN A VICE talk at Old Dominion University
April 5, 2018 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Norfolk, VA, USA
Alexandra Cox discusses Trapped in a Vice at Old Dominion University, Sociology & Criminal Justice department. DETAILS TBD.
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Frances R. Botkin Thieving Three-Fingered Jack Red Emma's talk/signing
Frances R. Botkin Thieving Three-Fingered Jack Red Emma's talk/signing
April 7, 2018 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse, 30 W North Ave, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Frances R. Botkin talk/signing at Red Emma's, 6pm https://redemmas.org/events/1202-frances-botkin-presents--thieving-three-fingered-jack
The fugitive slave known as “Three-Fingered Jack” terrorized colonial Jamaica from 1780 until vanquished by Maroons, self-emancipated Afro-Jamaicans bound by treaty to police the island for runaways and rebels. A thief and a killer, Jack was also a freedom fighter who sabotaged the colonial machine until his grisly death at its behest. Narratives about his exploits shed light on the problems of black rebellion and solutions administered by the colonial state, creating an occasion to consider counter-narratives about its methods of divide and conquer. For more than two centuries, writers, performers, and storytellers in England, Jamaica, and the United States have “thieved" Three Fingered Jack's riveting tale, defining black agency through and against representations of his resistance.
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DANA MALONE From Single to Serious talk/signing
DANA MALONE From Single to Serious talk/signing
April 8, 2018 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Main Point Books, 116 N Wayne Ave, Wayne, PA 19087, USA
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Alexandra Cox Adirondacks Community event
Alexandra Cox Adirondacks Community event
April 8, 2018 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
2520 Main St, Lake Placid, NY 12946, USA
A Community Conversation about juvenile justice in the Adirondacks. With the medium-security adult prison in Ray Brook slated to become a juvenile facility, a conversation with Alexandra Cox, author of Trapped in a Vice: The Consequences of Confinement for Young People, is urgent and right on time. It will be held at Hotel North Woods, in The Cabin Grill, 2520 Main Street in Lake Placid. Doors at 4pm, event at 4:30pm.
Contact John Brown Lives! for details: info@johnbrownlives.org
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Alexandra Cox SUNY New Paltz lecture
Alexandra Cox SUNY New Paltz lecture
April 9, 2018 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
1 Hawk Hill Rd, New Paltz, NY 12561, USA
Lecture sponsored by the Department of Sociology. Location TBA.
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Dahlia Schweitzer GOING VIRAL talk at Powell Library
Dahlia Schweitzer GOING VIRAL talk at Powell Library
April 10, 2018 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
120S Election Walk, Los Angeles, CA 90095
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Alexandra Cox University of Delaware Department of Sociology & Criminal Justice colloquium
Alexandra Cox University of Delaware Department of Sociology & Criminal Justice colloquium
April 11, 2018 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA
This event will take place at 108 Memorial Hall. DETAILS TBD.
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Angie Y. Chung SAVING FACE lecture
Angie Y. Chung SAVING FACE lecture
April 11, 2018 @ 7:00 pm-April 12, 2018 @ 8:30 am
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA
Location: Hall of Languages 107
Angie Y. Chung is an associate professor in the department of sociology at the University at Albany. She will be visiting campus as part of her book tour for her new book, “Saving Face”. Sponsored by Asian/Asian American Studies. Contact: Andrew Stranahan at ajstrana@syr.edu.
http://multicultural.syr.edu/_documents/AAPIHM2018.pdf
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Alexandra Cox Rutgers Camden Urban Speakers Series
Alexandra Cox Rutgers Camden Urban Speakers Series
April 12, 2018 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Rutgers Camden Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Criminal Justice, Urban Speaker's Series. DETAILS TBD.
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Alexandra Cox talk at Juvenile Law Center and Youth Sentencing and Reentry Project
Alexandra Cox talk at Juvenile Law Center and Youth Sentencing and Reentry Project
April 16, 2018 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
5445 Germantown Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19144, USA
This event will be held in conjunction with the Youth Sentencing and Reentry Project and the Juvenile Law Center at Uncle Bobbie's Coffee and Books in Philadelphia. To register for the event, click here.
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Alexandra Cox TRAPPED IN A VICE talk at Busboys & Poets
Alexandra Cox TRAPPED IN A VICE talk at Busboys & Poets
April 17, 2018 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
1025 5th St NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA
Join Alexandra Cox, author of Trapped in a Vice and Prof Kristin Henning for a conversation on the consequences of confinement for teenagers, getting out, and staying out.
This event is co-sponsored by the Campaign for Youth Justice, Youth First, and the Justice Policy Institute.
Kristin Henning is a Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. She previously served as a staff attorney at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia and helped to organize a Juvenile Unit designed to meet the multi-disciplinary needs of children in the juvenile justice system.Professor Henning has been active in local, regional and national juvenile justice reform. Professor Henning has also served as an expert consultant to a number of state and federal agencies, including the US Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division. She has published a number of law review articles on race and the juvenile justice system, the role of child's counsel and the role of parents in delinquency cases, confidentiality in juvenile proceedings, victims' rights in juvenile court, and parental consent in the Fourth Amendment context. In 2013, Professor Henning was awarded the Robert E. Shepherd, Jr. Award for Excellence in Juvenile Defense by National Juvenile Defender Center. In 2105, she received the Henning-Mlyniec Award for Youth Justice from the DC Lawyers for Youth, was elected to American Law Institute (ALI), and was invited to serve as an Adviser to ALI's Restatement on Children and the Law project. Henning has been a visiting professor at Yale and NYU Law Schools and holds a B.A. from Duke University, a J.D. from Yale University, and an LL.M. from Georgetown University.
Alexandra Cox is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex. Prior to getting her Ph.D., she worked at the American Civil LIberties Union's Drug Law Reform project, the Drug Policy Alliance's Office of Legal Affairs and then at the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, a community-based public defender office in New York City. She has continued to practice as a sentencing mitigation specialist, representing primarily young people charged as adults. She has served on the boards of theNew York State Defenders Association, Drama Club (which provides theater programming to incarcerated youth), Reentry Columbia, Literacy for Incarcerated Teens, and Advancing Real Change. She was a Gates Cambridge Scholar a Soros Justice Advocacy fellow.
The Campaign for Youth Justice is a national campaign in the United States dedicated to ending the practice of trying, sentencing, and incarcerating children under age 18 in the adult justice system. Founded in 2005, CFYJ has become a national clearinghouse on the issue of trying youth in adult court. It is also one of the leading advocates for the reauthorization of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act.
Youth First Initiative is a national advocacy campaign to end the incarceration of youth by closing youth prisons and investing in community-based alternatives to incarceration and programs for youth.
The Justice Policy Institute is a national nonprofit organization that changes the conversation around justice reform and advances policies that promote well-being and justice for all people and communities. Our research and analyses identify effective programs and policies and we disseminate our findings to the media, policymakers and advocates, and provide training and technical assistance supports to people working for justice reform.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/trapped-in-a-vice-a-conversation-with-professor-kristin-henning-and-alexandra-cox-tickets-42895477528?aff=erelexpmlt
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Kayo Denda, Mary Hawkesworth, & Fernanda Perrone discuss THE DOUGLASS CENTURY at RU B&N
Kayo Denda, Mary Hawkesworth, & Fernanda Perrone discuss THE DOUGLASS CENTURY at RU B&N
April 17, 2018 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Barnes & Noble, 100 Somerset St, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
Rutgers University’s Douglass Residential College is the only college for women that is nested within a major research university in the United States. Although the number of women’s colleges has plummeted from a high of 268 in 1960 to 38 in 2016, Douglass is flourishing as it approaches its centennial in 2018. To explore its rich history, Kayo Denda, Mary Hawkesworth, Fernanda H. Perrone examine the strategic transformation of Douglass over the past century in relation to continuing debates about women’s higher education.
The Douglass Century celebrates the college’s longevity and diversity as distinctive accomplishments, and analyzes the contributions of Douglass administrators, alumnae, and students to its survival, while also investigating multiple challenges that threatened its existence. This book demonstrates how changing historical circumstances altered the possibilities for women and the content of higher education, comparing the Jazz Age, American the Great Depression, the Second World War, the post-war Civil Rights era, and the resurgence of feminism in the 1970s and 1980s. Concluding in the present day, the authors highlight the college’s ongoing commitment to Mabel Smith Douglass’ founding vision, “to bring about an intellectual quickening, a cultural broadening in connection with specific training so that women may go out into the world fitted…for leadership…in the economic, political, and intellectual life of this nation.” In addition to providing a comprehensive history of the college, the book brings its subjects to life with eighty full-color images from the Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.
http://rutgers.bncollege.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/BNCBHomePage?catalogId=10001&langId=-1&storeId=58552
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Post-Borderlandia Center for the Study of the Southwest talk
Post-Borderlandia Center for the Study of the Southwest talk
April 19, 2018 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
601 University Dr, San Marcos, TX 78666, USA
Held at Center for the Study of the Southwest,Brazos Hall,Texas State University,601 University Drive,San Marcos, TX 78666
T. Jackie Cuevas discusses Post-Borderlandia.
Bringing Chicana/o studies into conversation with queer theory and transgender studies, Post-Borderlandia examines why gender variance is such a core theme in contemporary Chicana and Chicanx narratives. It considers how Chicana butch lesbians and Chicanx trans people are not only challenging heteropatriarchal norms, but also departing from mainstream conceptions of queerness and gender identification.
Expanding on Gloria Anzaldúa’s classic formulation of the Chicana as transformer of the “borderlands,” Jackie Cuevas explores how a new generation of Chicanx writers, performers, and filmmakers are imagining a “post-borderlands” subjectivity, where shifting national, racial, class, sexual, and gender identifications produce complex power dynamics. In addition, Cuevas offers fresh archival analysis of the Chicana feminist canon to reveal how queer gender variance has always been crucial to this literary tradition
http://www.txstate.edu/cssw/ https://www.facebook.com/events/2068671680083956/?notif_t=plan_user_invited¬if_id=1522713756857259
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Dahlia Schweitzer Going Viral talk at CCSU
Dahlia Schweitzer Going Viral talk at CCSU
April 19, 2018 @ 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
CCSU Student Center on Ella Grasso Blvd, New Britain, CT 06053, USA
This lecture is sponsored by the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) Program. For more information contact: Dr. Karen A. Rizenhoff (Communication) or Dr. Heather Prescott (History), Co-Coordinators WGSS email riztenhoffk@ccsu.edu
Outbreak narratives have proliferated for the past quarter century, and now they have reached epidemic proportions. From 28 Days Later to 24 to The Walking Dead, movies, TV shows, and books are filled with zombie viruses, bioengineered plagues, and disease-ravaged bands of survivors. Even news reports indulge in thrilling scenarios about potential global pandemics like SARS and Ebola. Why have outbreak narratives infected our public discourse, and how have they affected the way Americans view the world?
In Going Viral, Dahlia Schweitzer probes outbreak narratives in film, television, and a variety of other media, putting them in conversation with rhetoric from government authorities and news organizations that have capitalized on public fears about our changing world. She identifies three distinct types of outbreak narrative, each corresponding to a specific contemporary anxiety: globalization, terrorism, and the end of civilization. Schweitzer considers how these fears, stoked by both fictional outbreak narratives and official sources, have influenced the ways Americans relate to their neighbors, perceive foreigners, and regard social institutions.
Looking at everything from I Am Legend to The X Files to World War Z, this book examines how outbreak narratives both excite and horrify us, conjuring our nightmares while letting us indulge in fantasies about fighting infected Others. Going Viral thus raises provocative questions about the cost of public paranoia and the power brokers who profit from it.
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Dahlia Schweitzer talk at Wesleyan R.J. Julia Bookstore
Dahlia Schweitzer talk at Wesleyan R.J. Julia Bookstore
April 20, 2018 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
413 Main St, Middletown, CT 06457, USA
Bookstore Event: Dahlia Schweitzer '98, "Going Viral: Zombies, Viruses, and the End of the World" Wesleyan R.J. Julia Bookstore
books@wesleyan.edu
860-685-3939 https://eaglet.wesleyan.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?EventDetailId=81160
Outbreak narratives have proliferated for the past quarter century, and now they have reached epidemic proportions. From 28 Days Later to 24 to The Walking Dead, movies, TV shows, and books are filled with zombie viruses, bioengineered plagues, and disease-ravaged bands of survivors. Even news reports indulge in thrilling scenarios about potential global pandemics like SARS and Ebola. Why have outbreak narratives infected our public discourse, and how have they affected the way Americans view the world?
In Going Viral, Dahlia Schweitzer probes outbreak narratives in film, television, and a variety of other media, putting them in conversation with rhetoric from government authorities and news organizations that have capitalized on public fears about our changing world. She identifies three distinct types of outbreak narrative, each corresponding to a specific contemporary anxiety: globalization, terrorism, and the end of civilization. Schweitzer considers how these fears, stoked by both fictional outbreak narratives and official sources, have influenced the ways Americans relate to their neighbors, perceive foreigners, and regard social institutions.
Looking at everything from I Am Legend to The X Files to World War Z, this book examines how outbreak narratives both excite and horrify us, conjuring our nightmares while letting us indulge in fantasies about fighting infected Others. Going Viral thus raises provocative questions about the cost of public paranoia and the power brokers who profit from it.
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Gov. James J. Florio Standing on Principle book launch
Gov. James J. Florio Standing on Principle book launch
April 24, 2018 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Douglass Campus Center, 100 George St, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
Trayes Hall - Douglass Student Center
Governor James J. Florio in Conversation with Steve Kornacki
James J. Florio is best known as governor of New Jersey from 1990 to 1994. But his career in local, state, and national government is far more varied, and his achievements as a progressive reformer are more substantial than most realize.
This political memoir tells the remarkable story of how Florio, a high school dropout who left to join the Navy as a teenager, went on to become an attorney, a state assemblyman, a congressman, and a governor. A passionate defender of the environment, Florio played a crucial role in the enactment of 1980s-era Superfund laws, which helped to clean up toxic waste sites in New Jersey and around the country. As governor, he fought for the groundbreaking Clean Water Enforcement Act. But his reforms quite literally came at a cost, as he raised New Jersey sales taxes and income taxes to balance the state budget. Florio reflects upon the challenges of meeting the state’s budgetary needs while keeping his tax-averse constituents happy.
Standing on Principle reveals a politician who has never been afraid to take a progressive stand—including a firm stance against semiautomatic weapons that led gun lobbyists to bankroll his opponent. His story is sure to inspire readers from New Jersey and across the nation.
Published in cooperation with the Center on the American Governor, Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University
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Dahlia Schweitzer Writes of Spring Festival Going Viral talk/signing
Dahlia Schweitzer Writes of Spring Festival Going Viral talk/signing
April 26, 2018 @ 11:15 am - 1:15 pm
Rio Hondo College, City of Industry, CA 90601, USA
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National Independent Bookstore Day
National Independent Bookstore Day
April 28, 2018
Your favorite indie bookstore!
Independent Bookstore Day is a one-day national party that takes place at indie bookstores across the country on the last Saturday in April. Every store is unique and independent, and every party is different. But in addition to authors, live music, cupcakes, scavenger hunts, kids events, art tables, readings, barbecues, contests, and other fun stuff, there are exclusive books and literary items that you can only get on that day. Not before. Not after. Not online.
Find out more by visiting: http://www.indiebookstoreday.com/
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