SPEAKERS: Rania Abouzeid, Alissa J. Rubin, and Robert Worth

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Three acclaimed journalists -- former Middle East bureau chief for the New York Times Robert F. Worth; award-winning film and print journalist and 2019-20 Nieman Fellow Rania Abouzeid; and award-winning former Iraq correspondent and current Nieman Fellow Alissa J. Rubin -- discuss the situation in the Middle East with former editor of the New York Times and Senior Lecturer in the English Department, Jill Abramson.... Read more about Tyrants & Rebels: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon

Migration and the Humanities

Speakers: Natalie G. Diaz, Yannis Hamilakis, Maaza Mengiste

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Migration seems to be a historical category of analysis with no clear beginning, middle, and end. It has allowed humanistic inquiry to re-animate questions of displacements across time and space; intervene in multiple intersecting crises across the globe; renew inquiry into the myth and power of the nation-state, globality, and the international community; and rethink questions about global anthropogenic influence. However, migration can also construct binaries that enforce systems of dispossession and racial inequality. Moreover, much deeper histories of human migration underlie our present moment and compel scholars, writers, and curators to reckon with longer legacies of colonialism, empire, and state power that can be found in everything from material artifacts to national mythology.... Read more about Out of Place and Time: Thinking Migration through the Humanities

Speaker:  Álvaro Santana-Acuña, Whitman College

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Gabriel García Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude seemed destined for obscurity upon its publication in 1967. The little-known author, small publisher, magical style, and setting in a remote Caribbean village were hardly the usual ingredients for success in the literary marketplace. Yet today it ranks among the best-selling books of all time. Translated into dozens of languages, it continues to enter the lives of new readers around the world. How did One Hundred Years of Solitude achieve this unlikely success? And what does its trajectory tell us about how a work of art becomes a classic?... Read more about Ascent to Glory: How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and Became a Global Classic

Speakers: Walter Johnson, Cornel West

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A discussion of Walter Johnson's new book, The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States.

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Speakers: Nancy Cott and Samuel Zipp

Fascism encroaching on democracy -- the American populace riven with discord between ultranationalists and advocates of world responsibilities – public information warped by big lies—these current menaces echo perils of the era from the first through the second world war. Drawing from their recent books Fighting Words: The Bold American Journalists Who Brought the World Home and The Idealist: Wendell Willkie’s Wartime Quest to Build One World, Nancy Cott and Samuel Zipp will discuss internationalist ventures of a previous tumultuous era, and consider their relevance today.

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Speaker: Michael Willrich, Brandeis University

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Speaker: Alex Chase-Levenson, University of Pennsylvania... Read more about Conversation on Covid-19 | Alex Chase-Levenson

Speaker: Elizabeth F. Thompson... Read more about Writers Speak | How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs

Speaker: Patrick Kingsley

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Migration and the Humanities

Speakers: Laura Briggs, Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández, and A. Naomi Paik

How did we get here? The Mahindra Humanities Center Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Series on Migration and the Humanities presents a conversation about migration and the southern U.S. border.