Issues for the week of June 15, 2023 - Public Seminar

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Curated Essays for the

Week of June 15

Previous Weeks

Fear or Hope?

The 2023 Turkish Elections—A Roller Coaster Ride between Hope and Despair

Selin Bengi Gümrükçü

Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Political Science at Rutgers University
Chinese American History

Can a Walking Tour Rescue a Lost History?

Mette Kierstein

Cultural journalist
Stranger than Fiction

Eau du Easy Mark

Helen Schulman

Professor of Writing and Fiction Chair at the MFA program, The New School
The Symptoms of Anti-Semitism

“The Symbolic Equivalent of a Pogrom” in Poland

Irena Grudzińska-Gross

Literary critic, historian of ideas, a 1968 émigré from Poland