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VIRTUAL - Elizabeth Hinton | America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
Mon, June 21, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE In conversation with Jill Lepore, historian and bestselling and award-winning author of These Truths: A History of the United States , The Secret History of Wonder Woman , and If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future --among many other works. Leading Professor…
VIRTUAL - Laura Raicovich | Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest
Tue, June 22, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE In conversation with Seph Rodney, PhD, opinions editor and managing editor of the Sunday Edition for Hyperallergic , author of The Personalization of the Museum Visit , and winner of the 2020 Rabkin Arts Journalism Prize. The interim director of New York’s Leslie-Lohman…
VIRTUAL - Elias Rodriques | All the Water I’ve Seen is Running
Thu, June 24, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE In conversation with author and State Senator, Nikil Saval Co-sponsored by n+1 and Blue Stoop Elias Rodriques currently teaches at the University of Pennsylvania and in the fall of 2021 will start as an assistant professor of African American literature at Sarah Lawrence College.…
VIRTUAL - Sarah Schulman | Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987–1993
Tue, June 29, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE In conversation with Jason Villemez, editor of the Philadelphia Gay News A decades-long activist for LGBTQ+ rights and women’s empowerment, Sarah Schulman is the author of more than twenty novels, nonfiction books, screenplays, and stage plays. Her other work has…
VIRTUAL - Scott Ellsworth | The Ground Breaking: An American City's Search for Justice
Thu, July 1, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE In conversation with Tracey Matisak, award-winning journalist and broadcaster Scott Ellsworth is the author of Death in a Promised Land , an in-depth book about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, one of modern history’s most horrific incidents of racial violence against Black…
VIRTUAL – T.J. Newman | Falling
Tue, July 13, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE A former bookseller turned flight attendant, T. J. Newman flew for Virgin America and Alaska Airlines from 2011 until this year. While her passengers were asleep on cross-country red-eye flights, she began to write a novel on whatever she could find during her shifts, including…
VIRTUAL - William di Canzio | Alec
Thu, July 15, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE In conversation with Wendy Moffat, Professor of English and Curley Chair of Global Education at Dickinson College and author of the prize-winning biography, A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E.M. Forster A professor in the Pennoni Honors College of Drexel…
VIRTUAL - Jessamyn Stanley | Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance
Wed, July 21, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE In conversation with adrienne maree brown Internationally sought-after wellness expert Jessamyn Stanley is the author of Every Body Yoga , “a clever memoir of a millennial woman’s search for self-acceptance” ( Elle ) wrapped inside a beginner’s…
VIRTUAL - Omar El Akkad | What Strange Paradise
Thu, July 22, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE Omar El Akkad is the author of American War , a “poignant and horrifying” ( Washington Post ) dystopian novel that imagines a future civil war born from the U.S.’s current destructive policies and impulses. It was an international bestseller,…