Issues for the week of July 29, 2021 - Public Seminar

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Curated Essays for the

Week of July 29

Featured Essays
According to Nathaniel Hawthorne, We Should All Be Wearing Face Masks
Russ Castronovo
Director of the Center for the Humanities and Tom Paine Professor of English at UW—Madison
Re-reading C. P. Snow
Anthony Grafton
Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University
Book Excerpts
The Floating Pool Lady
Ann L. Buttenwieser
Urban planner and historian
Thinking Design Through Literature
Susan Yelavich
Professor Emerita, Design Studies, Parsons School of Design
Winston Churchill’s North American Tour
Josh Ireland
Writer and author of Churchill & Son
Conversations
What Can’t be Contained
Alexandra Délano Alonso and Macushla Robinson
How Black Women Fight for Our Democracy
Martha S. Jones and Claire Potter
The Controversy over Dr. Seuss
Nicole Hemmer, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela and Neil J. Young
Reviews
Cis Lit and the Trans Writer
McKenzie Wark
Professor of Culture and Media, New School for Social Research
More Misandry, Please!
Hannah Leffingwell
PhD candidate in history, Institute of French Studies at New York University