Issues for the week of October 6, 2022 - Public Seminar

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Curated Essays for the

Week of October 6

Previous Weeks

Migration

A City on Fire

Susan Hartman

Author and Professor at Columbia University’s School of the Arts

Documenting the City of Refugees

Susan Hartman and Marisa Budlong
The Balance of Power

Part 5: After Ukraine

James Carroll

Author

Giorgia Meloni and the Far Right’s Transatlantic Turn

Lucas Dolan

PhD candidate at American University's School of International Service
Narrative Matters

Multi-Verse Episode 5: Amanda Gunn’s Forensic Imagination

Evangeline Riddiford Graham

Host and producer of Multi-Verse and instructor in Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism at The New School

Three Thousand Years of Longing—And One Hour and Forty-Eight Minutes of Regret from This Humanities Professor

Hannah H. Kim

Assistant professor in philosophy at Macalester College
Understanding James Baldwin

Nonviolence, Black Power, and “the Citizens of Pompeii”: James Baldwin’s 1968

Ed Pavlić

Ed Pavlić is an American writer whose work travels across genres: poetry, fiction and nonfiction

Making Experiences Our Own: A Review of The Amen Corner, 2021

Ijeoma N. Njaka

Senior Project Associate for Equity-Centered Design at the Red House; Inclusive Pedagogy Specialist for the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics at Georgetown University