The 2020 AHA meeting will be interested in comparing questions of conflicting or changing loyalties across time, space, and human experience—whether religious, ethnic, gendered, national, or otherwise—and how they have shaped trajectories of change. After a revolution, opponents of the new regime are often faced with a choice between swearing allegiance—thus betraying the values and leaders to whom they had promised loyalty—and imprisonment, exile, or execution. In contrast to such formal public dilemmas, loyalties that regulate private life can involve forms of expectation and obedience that are often unspoken, generationally specific, or resisted as archaic.

The 2020 AHA meeting will be interested in comparing questions of conflicting or changing loyalties across time, space, and human experience—whether religious, ethnic, gendered, national, or otherwise—and how they have shaped trajectories of change. After a revolution, opponents of the new regime are often faced with a choice between swearing allegiance—thus betraying the values and leaders to whom they had promised loyalty—and imprisonment, exile, or execution. In contrast to such formal public dilemmas, loyalties that regulate private life can involve forms of expectation and obedience that are often unspoken, generationally specific, or resisted as archaic.

The 2020 AHA meeting will be interested in comparing questions of conflicting or changing loyalties across time, space, and human experience—whether religious, ethnic, gendered, national, or otherwise—and how they have shaped trajectories of change. After a revolution, opponents of the new regime are often faced with a choice between swearing allegiance—thus betraying the values and leaders to whom they had promised loyalty—and imprisonment, exile, or execution. In contrast to such formal public dilemmas, loyalties that regulate private life can involve forms of expectation and obedience that are often unspoken, generationally specific, or resisted as archaic.

The 2020 AHA meeting will be interested in comparing questions of conflicting or changing loyalties across time, space, and human experience—whether religious, ethnic, gendered, national, or otherwise—and how they have shaped trajectories of change. After a revolution, opponents of the new regime are often faced with a choice between swearing allegiance—thus betraying the values and leaders to whom they had promised loyalty—and imprisonment, exile, or execution. In contrast to such formal public dilemmas, loyalties that regulate private life can involve forms of expectation and obedience that are often unspoken, generationally specific, or resisted as archaic.

Author Lincoln Mitchell will discuss San Francisco Year Zero with the New York Giants Preservation Society at Finnerty’s in New York.

The event is open to the public and not exclusive to members of the NYGPS. The event is free and copies of the book will be for sale from the author. Food and drink will be available for purchase.

https://www.finnertysnyc.com/
http://newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com/?p=2609

The presidential theme of the 2020 MLA convention is Being Human. MLA members will reflect on the role of literature and language in defining the nature of the human in the face of what appears to be its diminishment and to provoke debates on the role of the humanities in a changing world. What has been the role of the creative imagination in marking out the social spaces of what we call humanity? How has literature been called upon to bear witness to both the possibility and limits of the human in the modern world? How has the human condition been thought and written about in diverse historical periods and geographic spaces? Can literature and its criticism continue to inspire the desire for human freedom in an age of intolerance? What is the role of a diverse community of writers and readers in the thinking of the world and our relation to it?

Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault will discuss her new memoir Living When Everything Changed at Powell's City of Books.

Description:The presidential theme of the 2020 MLA convention is Being Human. MLA members will reflect on the role of literature and language in defining the nature of the human in the face of what appears to be its diminishment and to provoke debates on the role of the humanities in a changing world. What has been the role of the creative imagination in marking out the social spaces of what we call humanity? How has literature been called upon to bear witness to both the possibility and limits of the human in the modern world? How has the human condition been thought and written about in diverse historical periods and geographic spaces? Can literature and its criticism continue to inspire the desire for human freedom in an age of intolerance? What is the role of a diverse community of writers and readers in the thinking of the world and our relation to it?

Description:The presidential theme of the 2020 MLA convention is Being Human. MLA members will reflect on the role of literature and language in defining the nature of the human in the face of what appears to be its diminishment and to provoke debates on the role of the humanities in a changing world. What has been the role of the creative imagination in marking out the social spaces of what we call humanity? How has literature been called upon to bear witness to both the possibility and limits of the human in the modern world? How has the human condition been thought and written about in diverse historical periods and geographic spaces? Can literature and its criticism continue to inspire the desire for human freedom in an age of intolerance? What is the role of a diverse community of writers and readers in the thinking of the world and our relation to it?

Author Brad Schreiber discusses his new book Music Is Power at Book Soup. 

Description:The presidential theme of the 2020 MLA convention is Being Human. MLA members will reflect on the role of literature and language in defining the nature of the human in the face of what appears to be its diminishment and to provoke debates on the role of the humanities in a changing world. What has been the role of the creative imagination in marking out the social spaces of what we call humanity? How has literature been called upon to bear witness to both the possibility and limits of the human in the modern world? How has the human condition been thought and written about in diverse historical periods and geographic spaces? Can literature and its criticism continue to inspire the desire for human freedom in an age of intolerance? What is the role of a diverse community of writers and readers in the thinking of the world and our relation to it?

Elizabeth Cherry, Associate Professor of Sociology at Manhattanville College in Purchase, will speak about her new book, For the Birds: Protecting Wildlife through the Naturalist Gaze, which will be available for purchase at the meeting.

*Held in the second-floor library of the Washingtonville Middle School, in Washingtonville, New York

https://mearnsbirdclub.org/meetings-and-speakers

Public Program 
Slavery's Descendants: Shared Legacies of Race and  Reconciliation  
Wednesday, January 15, 2020 - 7:30 p.m. 
Co-editor Dionne Ford and contributor Catherine Sasanov will discuss this collection by writers from a variety of backgrounds -- all members of Coming to the Table, a national racial reconciliation organization -- recounting their stories of dealing with America’s racial past through their experiences and their family histories. 
     
Some of the contributors are descendants of slaveholders, some are descendants of the enslaved, and many are descendants of both slaveholders and those they enslaved. What they have in common is a commitment toward collective introspection, and a willingness to think critically about how the nation's histories of oppression continue to ripple into the present, affecting us all. 
     
The stories in Slavery's Descendants deal with harrowing topics -- rape, lynching, cruelty, shame -- but they also describe acts of generosity, gratitude, and love. Together, they help us confront the legacy of slavery to reclaim a more complete picture of American history, one cousin at a time.
     
Copies of Slavery's Descendants will be available for purchase and signing at the event. 

http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/1371389/2e58aab7bb/542716323/f5cf7a7dc0/

Join us in welcoming Abbe Smith discussing her new book Guilty People!

Criminal defense attorneys protect the innocent and guilty alike, but, the majority of criminal defendants are guilty. This is as it should be in a free society. Yet there are many different types of crime and degrees of guilt, and the defense must navigate through a complex criminal justice system that is not always equipped to recognize nuances.

In Guilty People, law professor and longtime criminal defense attorney Abbe Smith gives us a thoughtful and honest look at guilty individuals on trial. Each chapter tells compelling stories about real cases she handled; some of her clients were guilty of only petty crimes and misdemeanors, while others committed offenses as grave as rape and murder. In the process, she answers the question that every defense attorney is routinely asked: How can you represent these people?

Smith’s answer also tackles seldom-addressed but equally important questions such as: Who are the people filling our nation’s jails and prisons? Are they as dangerous and depraved as they are usually portrayed? How did they get caught up in the system? And what happens to them there?

This book challenges the assumption that the guilty are a separate species, unworthy of humane treatment. It is dedicated to guilty people—every single one of us.

This event is free and open for all to attend — Kindly RSVP here!

https://www.solidstatebooksdc.com/events/abbesmith

https://www.paloaltojcc.org/Events/refugees-in-america
*Albert and Janet Schultz Cultural Arts Hall (Bldg F)
The event is co-sponsored by JCRC.
Registration is free. First 50 registrations will receive a free book.
Additionally, you can pre-order the book online for $26.95 and pick it up at the event.
Free, please RSVP
Contact: Luba Palant | (650) 223-8656 | lpalant@paloaltojcc.org

In The Queer Aesthetics of Childhood, Hannah Dyer offers a study of how children’s art and art about childhood can forecast new models of social life that redistribute care, belonging, and political value.

Dyer suggests that childhood’s cultural expressions offer insight into the persisting residues of colonial history, nation building, homophobia, and related violence.

Drawing from queer and feminist theory, psychoanalysis, settler-colonial studies, and cultural studies, this book helps to explain how some theories of childhood can hurt children.

Dyer’s analysis moves between diverse sites and scales, including photographs and an art installation, children’s drawings after experiencing war in Gaza, a novel about gay love and childhood trauma, and debates in sex-education.

In the cultural formations of art, she finds new theories of childhood that attend to the knowledge, trauma, fortitude and experience that children might possess.

In addressing aggressions against children, ambivalences towards child protection, and the vital contributions children make to transnational politics, she seeks new and queer theories of childhood.

Hannah Dyer is an assistant professor of child and youth studies at Brock University in Ontario, Canada.

http://octopusbooks.ca/event/book-launch-the-queer-aesthetics-of-childhood-by-hannah-dyer

Founded in 1900, the American Booksellers Association is a national not-for-profit trade organization that works to help independently owned bookstores grow and succeed.

Rutgers University Press books will be on display at the ASAO 2020 annual meeting.

Founded in 1900, the American Booksellers Association is a national not-for-profit trade organization that works to help independently owned bookstores grow and succeed.

Rutgers University Press books will be on display at the ASAO 2020 annual meeting.

Founded in 1900, the American Booksellers Association is a national not-for-profit trade organization that works to help independently owned bookstores grow and succeed.

Founded in 1900, the American Booksellers Association is a national not-for-profit trade organization that works to help independently owned bookstores grow and succeed.

Rutgers University Press books will be on display at the ASAO 2020 annual meeting.

Jim Cullen will discuss his new book Those Were the Days at the Queens Historical Society. An episode of All in the Family will also be aired. 

Books sold by Books on Call NYC.

Rutgers University Press books will be on display at the ASAO 2020 annual meeting.