Resources for Teachers and Students

Fiction Days presents Carmen Maria Machado

Her Body and Other Parties
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
7PM | Gasson Hall, Room 100

Keywords: short stories, fiction, genre, horror, science fiction

Website:

• https://carmenmariamachado.com/

Videos:

• “Her Body and Other Parties” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaR71958K-c
• “Uncanny Bodies” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK1zYYgsUHo
• Miami Book Fair 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kD1iVPiAQA

Interviews/Profiles:

• “Carmen Maria Machado’s Beautiful Bad Dreams”: https://www.guernicamag.com/carmen-maria-machados-beautiful-bad-dreams/
• “Pleasure Principles” https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/10/03/pleasure-principles-interview-carmen-maria-machado/
• “The Thing that Would Unmake You” https://www.thecommononline.org/the-thing-that-would-unmake-you-an-interview-with-carmen-maria-machado/
• “I’m Interested in Messing with Genres” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/07/carmen-maria-machado-meet-the-author-fiction-interview
• “The Form Vampire” https://bombmagazine.org/articles/the-form-vampire-an-interview-with-carmen-maria-machado/

Shorter Pieces/Teachable Texts:

• Fiction, Essays, Criticism and Literature and more: https://carmenmariamachado.com/craft-criticism/
• “Eight Bites” http://texas.gulfcoastmag.org/journal/29.2-summer/fall-2017/eight-bites/
• “Unruly, Adjective” https://medium.com/s/unrulybodies/the-body-that-says-i-am-here-f21c9642d49c
• “The Trash Heap Has Spoken” https://www.guernicamag.com/the-trash-heap-has-spoken/
  

Reviews:

• Review in The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/18/her-body-other-parties-carmen-maria-machado-review
• Review in The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/04/books/review-her-body-and-other-parties-carmen-maria-machado.html
• Review in LA Times http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-carmen-maria-machado-20170929-story.html
• NPR review https://www.npr.org/2017/10/08/553978325/-her-body-and-other-parties-be-your-own-madwoman

James C. Scott

“In Praise of Floods: The Study of Rivers and Civilization.”
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
7PM | Gasson Hall, Room 100

Keywords: agrarian studies, history, anarchy, Asia, food studies

Website:

https://politicalscience.yale.edu/people/james-scott
 

Videos:

• “A Short Account of the Brief History of State Evasion” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb8qQcShWUk
• “How Grains Domesticated Us”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO__r8Q0bmU
• “The Art of Not Being Goverened” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVwrUsib4vU
• “The Earliest Agrarian States and their Barbarians” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2ukte-je8k

Interview:

• “Most resistance does not speak its name” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/most-resistance-does-not-speak-its-name-an-interview-with-james-c-scott/
• “Time with a Creative Mind”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddENAM6MG2k

Reviews:

• The Guardian Review https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/nov/25/against-the-grain-by-james-c-scott-review
• London Review of Books https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n23/steven-mithen/why-did-we-start-farming
• The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/09/18/the-case-against-civilization

Francisco Cantú

The Line Becomes a River
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
7PM | Gasson Hall, Room 100

Keywords: immigration, border patrol, current events, memoir, non-fiction

Website:

• https://franciscocantu.us/

Videos:

• “The Line Becomes a River” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp2_VlNySDA
• PBS Newshour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aKOdva8Cfk

Interviews:

• “This is work that endangers the soul” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/feb/18/francisco-cantu-line-becomes-river-interview-former-us-border-patrol-agent
• “Border Patrol” https://www.guernicamag.com/francisco-cantu-and-lauren-markham-border-patrol/
• “Francisco Cantú on the Reality and Unreality of Borders” https://chireviewofbooks.com/2018/02/14/line-becomes-a-river-francisco-cantu-interview/

Reviews:

• New York Times review https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/27/books/review/line-becomes-a-river-francisco-cantu.html
• Guardian review https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/mar/02/line-becomes-river-by-francisco-cantu-review-border-patrol
• Mother Jones review https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/02/best-book-on-immigration-comes-from-border-patrol-agent-francisco-cantu/
• LA Times review http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-border-cantu-20180202-story.html
• Salon review https://www.salon.com/2018/02/12/humanizing-the-border-francisco-cantus-the-line-becomes-a-river/

Shorter Pieces/Teachable Texts:

• “Tucson, Arizona” https://harpers.org/archive/2017/10/tucson-arizona/
• “A Nation Doesn’t Need Walls” https://thepointmag.com/2017/politics/a-nation-doesnt-need-walls-conversation-on-the-border
• “Clearly Marked Ghosts” http://themapisnot.com/issue-iii-francisco-cantu
• “Bajadas” https://books.google.com/books?id=e9ozCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=francisco+cantu+bajadas&source=bl&ots=bovqMRjmSW&sig=Z-mW_eg1ixGTtveyA-lDf4UMynA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjsmp2U64PTAhUOS2MKHbrkDs8Q6AEISDAJ#v=onepage&q&f=false
• “Cages are Cruel. The Dessert is Too.” https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/30/opinion/sunday/cages-are-cruel-the-desert-is-too.html

Alvin Jackson

The survival of the United Kingdom, 1707-2017:  Bloodshed, borders and Brexit
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
7PM | Gasson Hall, Room 100

Keywords: history, Brexit

Website:

• https://www.ed.ac.uk/history-classics-archaeology/history/about/staff-profiles/profile_tab5_academic.php?uun=ajackso6&search=5&params=

Videos:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWJAvfN3hzA

Articles:

• “Mrs Foster and the rebels: Irish unionist approaches to the Easter Rising, 1916-2016.”
• Irish Historical Studies, vol. 42, no. 161, May 2018, pp.143-160.

Carrie Mae Weems

“‘Don’t Let Me Be Lonely’: A Lecture by Carrie Mae Weems”
September 10, 2018
7:00 p.m. • Devlin Hall, Room 110

Keywords: art, photography, video, cultural identity, class, power, sexism, race, activism

Website:

• http://carriemaeweems.net/

 
Video: 

• “Carrie Mae Weems in ‘Compassion’”
• Weems at the Brooklyn Museum
• “FRESH TALK: Carrie Mae Weems—Can an artist inspire social change?”
• Weems on From Here I Saw What Happened…And I Cried

Interviews/Profiles:

• “Artist Carrie Mae Weems on 30 Years of Genius”
• “Carrie Mae Weems by Dawoud Bey”

Reviews:

• New York Times review: “Testimony of a Cleareyed Witness”
• Review of And 22 Million Very Tired and Very Angry People
• Review of All the Boys and Usual Suspects
• New York Times review of The Hampton Project
• Ellen Macarlane Brueckner “Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video”
• Sara Davis, “Aint Jokin’ (about watermelon, among other things)”
• Andrea Miller-Keller and Judith Wilson on Ain’t Jokin’
• Review of Lincoln, Lonnie and Me, Huey Copeland, “Specters of History,” Afrtforum International, vol. 53, no. 1, September 2014, pp. 342-45.

Shorter Pieces/Teachable Texts:

• Antwaun Sargent “Carrie Mae Weems on a Career of Challenging Power and Black Representation in Art”
• Claire Raymond, “The Crucible of Witnessing: Projects of Identity in Carrie Mae Weems’s From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried,” Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, vol 13, no. 1, 2015, pp. 26-52.

Charles Sennott: 

GroundTruth in the ‘Post-Truth’ Era

September 19, 2018
7:00 p.m. • Gasson Hall, Room 100

Keywords: Journalism, fake news, post trust, current events

Speaker Websites:

• http://thegroundtruthproject.org/

 
Video: 

• “Charles M. Sennott: Truth, Polarization, & the American Media”
• “The Future of Journalism with Charles Sennott”
• “What the end of the war means for Afghanistan’s Future”

 
Interviews/Profiles:

• “Charles Sennott’s Vision for the GroundTruth Project”
• “Charles Sennott, executive editor of Global Post”
• “Charles Sennott, Embedded in ‘The Surge’"
• “Journalist Charles Sennott finds the Story in the Midst of Turmoil.”

 
Shorter Pieces/Teachable Texts:

• “An appeal for public service journalism”
• “The Crisis in Journalism has become a crisis of democracy”
• “The First Battle of the 21 st Century”
• “As Faithful Celebrate Easter, Passover in Jerusalem, the city braces for US Embassy’s relocation”

Marlon James

A Brief History of Seven Killings
October 3, 2018
7:00 p.m. • Gasson Hall, Room 100

Keywords: novelist, fiction, Jamaica, race, sexuality

Speaker Website:

• https://www.macalester.edu/english/facultystaff/marlonjames/

 
Video: 

• “Are you a Racist? ‘No’ isn’t a good enough answer”
• “Imagine”
• “Marlon James: Bob Marley was Dangerous”
• “Marlon James: 10 Questions about Jamaica”
• “Marlon James Q&A on A Brief History of Seven Killings”

Interviews/Profiles:

• “Marlon James needs noise to write and other revelations”
• “Marlon James: How Rebel Novelist escaped Jamaica to Win Top Literary Prize”
• “Jeanette Winterson meets Marlon James: You Can’t Keep Upgrading People Like You Do Your Phone”

Reviews:

• New York Times review: “Jamaica via a Sea of Voices”
• London Review of Books

Shorter Pieces/Teachable Texts:

• “From Jamaica to Minnesota to Myself”
• “Growing Up With The King Of Pop”

C. Dale Young

Poetry Days presents C. Dale Young
October 17, 2018
7:00 p.m. • Devlin Hall, Room 101

Keywords: Poet, Poetry Days, medical humanities

Speaker Websites:

• http://www.cdaleyoung.com/
• https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/c-dale-young

 
Videos: 

• “C Dale Young reads at the 2014 Dodge Poetry Festival”
• “The Halo”

Interviews/Profiles:

• “No one is telling me to work this hard: C. Dale Young interviewed by Kaveh Akbar”
• American Literary Review interview with C. Dale Young
• “Ways of being attentive”: An Interview with C. Dale Young by Matthew Thorburn

Reviews:

• Rumpus review of The Halo
• Lambda Literary review of The Halo
• Lambda Literary review of The Affliction

Rebecca Solnit

The Mother of All Questions
October 24, 2018
7:00 p.m. • Gasson Hall, Room 100

Keywords: feminism, essays, activism, history, climate change

Speaker Websites:

• http://rebeccasolnit.net/

 
Videos: 

• “The Mother of All Questions”
• “Rebecca Solnit on Climate Change, Resistance, Misogyny and “The Mother of All Questions”

Interviews/Profiles:

• “Falling Together”
• Rebecca Solnit
• Rebecca Solnit: ‘The essay is powerful again. We’re in a golden age’

Reviews:

• The Guardian “The Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit Review – Ending Women’s Silence”
• The New Yorker “Rebecca Solnit’s Faith in Feminist Storytelling”
• LA Times “Rebecca Solnit tries to answer “The Mother of All Questions”

Shorter Pieces/Teachable Texts:

• “The Mother of All Questions”
• “Men Explain Things to Me” 
• “Protest and Persist: Why Giving Up Hope is Not an Option”
• “From Lying to Leering”
• “Call Climate Change What It Is: Violence”
• “The Most Radical Thing You Can Do"
• “On Harvey Weinstein and Hillary Clinton”
• “Silence and Powerlessness Go Hand-in-Hand”
• Harper’s columns

Ruth Rubio Marin

Reparations for Historic Institutional Violence: Learning from Transitional Justice?
November 1, 2018
7:00 p.m. • Gasson Hall, Room 100

Keywords: transitional justice, history, institutional violence, constitutional law, human rights, feminism 

Websites:

• https://stg.eui.eu/People/Ruth-Rubio-Mar%C3%ADn-biography
• http://www.us.es/acerca/directorio/ppdi/personal_5994

 
Videos: 

• “Ruth Rubio Marín interviews Aniela Unguresan”
• “Ruth Rubio Marín interviews Darren Rosenblum”

Short Pieces/Teachable Texts:

• Transcript of keynote speech at European University Institute State of the Union conference, “Women in Europe and the World”
• “Reparations for Conflict-related Sexual and Reproductive Violence: A Decalogue. William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law vol. 19, no. 1 (Fall 2012), pp. 69-104.
• “‘Notorious RBG’: A conversation with United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg.” International Journal of Constitutional Law vol. 15, no. 3 (2017), pp. 602-620.

Michael Sandel

Bioethics and the Common Good 
November 13, 2018
7:00 p.m. • Gasson Hall, Room 100

Keywords: bioethics, justice, democracy, markets and morals, medical humanities

Websites:

• https://scholar.harvard.edu/sandel/home

 
Videos: 

• Lectures in the “Justice” course **Lectures 3, 10, and 24 are recommended on the topic of justice and bioethics.
• “Should the Rich World Pay for Climate Change?”
• “Why we shouldn’t Trust markets with our civic life”
• “The Lost Art of Democratic Debate”
• “The Perfect Human Being” **Program is in English after Dutch introduction
• “Genetics and Morality”

Interviews/Profiles:

• “Michael Sandel: Master of Life’s Big Questions”
• New Statesman Profile
• “Whether we are arguing about MPs’ expenses or assisted suicide, we need to engage with the moral ideals underlying our political debates”

Shorter Pieces/Teachable Texts:

• “The Energy of the Brexiteers and Trump is born of the failure of the elites”
• “The Moral Economy of Speculation: Gambling, Finance and the Common Good”
• “The Case Against Perfection”

Annual Candlemas Lecture: Werner Jeanrond

Hopes, Hope and Radical Hope: Christian Hope and the Praxis of Love
Wednesday, February 6, 2019
7PM • Devlin Hall, Room 101

Keywords: theology, hope, theology of love

Website:

• http://www.st-benets.ox.ac.uk/-profWernerJeanrond

Videos:

• Werner Jeanrond interview Lithuanian Television: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcvp_QQA0Aw

Shorter Pieces/Teachable Texts

• “Love and Eschatology.” Dialog vol. 50, no. 1 (2011), pp. 53-65.
• “Biblical Challenges to a Theology of Love.” Biblical Interpretation vol. 11, no. 3 (2003), pp. 640-653.

Martha Nussbaum

Fear, Anger, Democracy: Our Need for the Liberal Arts 
Celebrating 10 Years of the Institute for the Liberal Arts at Boston College
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
7PM | Gasson Hall, Room 100

Keywords: political philosophy, liberals arts, ethics

Website:

• https://www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/nussbaum

Videos:

• “Examined Life” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbcGbflpFzI
• “Anger and Forgiveness” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGcHFD9wtoQ
• “The Fragility of Goodness” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWfK1E4L--c
• “Creating Capabilities” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoD-cjduM40

Interviews/Profiles:

• “The Philosopher of Feelings” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/martha-nussbaums-moral-philosophies
• “Q&A with Martha Nussbaum” https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2007/oct/27/weekend7.weekend

Reviews:

• “The Anger of the American people” https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/05/martha-nussbaum-anger/481464/
• Review of Anger and Forgiveness https://commons.pacificu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1570&context=eip

Shorter Pieces/Teachable Texts:

• 2017 Jefferson Lecture https://www.neh.gov/about/awards/jefferson-lecture/martha-nussbaum-jefferson-lecture
• “Go the Wrong Way https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/opinion/06nussbaum.html