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AWM Author TalksEpisode 136: Caits Meissner & Nicole Shawan JuniorThis week, Caits Meissner and Nicole Shawan Junior discuss their contributions to The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting A Writer’s Life in Prison. They are joined by Alicia Brown.The following conversation originally took place May 15, 2022 and was recorded live at the American Writers Festival.AWM PODCAST NETWORK HOMEMore about The Sentences That Create Us:The Sentences That Create Us provides a road map for incarcerated people and their allies to have a thriving writing life behind bars—and shared beyond the walls—that draws on the unique insights of more...2023-03-2749 min
Kurt Vonnegut Radio with Gabe Hudson11. Keri BlakingerKeri Blakinger is the author of Corrections in Ink and an award-winning journalist at The Marshall Project. As a student at Cornell University in 2010, Keri was arrested in Ithaca for possession of heroin. She was sentenced to two and a half years in prison, after which she became an award-winning journalist who covers death row in the Texas prison system. Keri describes what it felt like to see her book on the shelf at The Harvard Coop Bookstore, where as an unhoused person she used to steal books in order to fund her heroin addiction.Visit Keri B...2023-01-1019 min
Political GabfestGabfest Live! Grab the Steering Wheel EditionThis week, David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson are live at Sixth & I in Washington, DC discussing the new insurrection revelations; the overturning of Roe; and the legitimacy of the U.S. Supreme Court.Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:David French for The Dispatch: “The Case for Prosecuting Donald Trump Just Got Much Stronger”Kirsten M. J. Thompson, Hugh J. W. Sturrock, Diana Greene Foster, et al for JAMA Network Open: “Association of Travel Distance to Nearest Abortion Facility With Rates of Abortion”Sacred...2022-06-301h 04Political GabfestSCOTUS Guts The Establishment ClauseThis week, David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson discuss the Supreme Court decision requiring that government funding for private schools include religious ones, the January 6th hearings, and dissension at progressive organizations.Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:Jack Goldsmith for The New York Times: “Prosecute Trump? Put Yourself in Merrick Garland’s Shoes.”John Dickerson for Slate: Whistlestop podcast: “The Mulligan Letters”Ryan Grim for The Intercept: “Elephant in the Zoom”Here are this week’s chatters:Jo...2022-06-2352 min
Zócalo Public SquareWhat Would The End Of Mass Incarceration Mean For Prison Towns?California is turning away from mass incarceration. After generations of opening prisons and increasing the number of inmates inside them, the state government now plans to close a number of institutions. But many state prisons are located in struggling rural communities that depend on the jobs and health care infrastructure these facilities provide. The Newsom administration’s announcement of its intention to close the California Correctional Center in Susanville this year has sparked questions about the resulting effects on the Lassen County community. How do the economies and civic spheres of our prison towns really work? What is the relationship be...2022-04-1456 min
How Did We Miss That? by IndieLeft.media / IndieNews.NetworkIndependentLeft dot news Daily Headlines - Sunday, February 21st, 2021 - S3 E16Welcome to the IndependentLeft.News Daily Headlines podcast for Sunday, February 21st, 2021.
Early Edition - https://independentleft.news/?edition_id=de66fe00-7441-11eb-ae29-002590a5ba2d&utm_source=anchor&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=top-headlines-podcast&utm_content=ILN-Anchor-top-headlines-podcast-early-ed-02-21
Top Headlines:
👑 Texans receive exorbitant electricity bills after winter storm - Trévon Austin, WSWS
👑 Dying on the Waitlist - David Armstrong & Marshall Allen, ProPublica
👑 The US Empire Is An Abusive Narcissist: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix - Caitlin Johnstone
👑 Josh Hawley Used Campaign Funds on Family Trip to Universal Studios - Jon Skolnik, Salon via Truthout
👑...2021-02-2205 min
History of Art: Terra Foundation Lecture Series in American ArtTerra Foundation Lectures in American Art 2019 - A Contest of Images: American Art as Culture War (4) The Stones of Civil WarDr John Blakinger speaks about iconoclasm in American history and the vandalism of Confederate monuments. Iconoclasm is an enduring American value. In 1776, a mob destroyed a statue of King George III in Bowling Green, New York, establishing the new American Republic as a nation built on image destruction. More recent acts of visual violence have targeted Confederate monuments, transforming them both physically and digitally. Images of vandalism that circulate online are powerful enough to re-cast bronze and shatter stone.2019-06-0543 minHistory of Art: Terra Foundation Lecture Series in American ArtTerra Foundation Lectures in American Art 2019 - A Contest of Images: American Art as Culture War (4) The Stones of Civil WarDr John Blakinger speaks about iconoclasm in American history and the vandalism of Confederate monuments. Iconoclasm is an enduring American value. In 1776, a mob destroyed a statue of King George III in Bowling Green, New York, establishing the new American Republic as a nation built on image destruction. More recent acts of visual violence have targeted Confederate monuments, transforming them both physically and digitally. Images of vandalism that circulate online are powerful enough to re-cast bronze and shatter stone.2019-06-0543 minHistory of Art: Terra Foundation Lecture Series in American ArtTerra Foundation Lectures in American Art 2019 - A Contest of Images: American Art as Culture War (3) Dismantling the GallowsDr John Blakinger discusses 'Scaffold', Sam Durant's contentious sculpture. Sam Durant's controversial sculpture Scaffold, a wooden structure recalling specific gallows from American history, ignited a firestorm at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in 2017. The work resembled the scaffold used in nearby Mankato, Minnesota, where 38 Dakota men were executed just days after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation - it was the largest mass execution ever held on American soil. This historical reference prompted a backlash from Native communities, who called for the work's removal. Can art help us dismantle the past and loosen its shackles? Or are we always...2019-06-0540 minHistory of Art: Terra Foundation Lecture Series in American ArtTerra Foundation Lectures in American Art 2019 - A Contest of Images: American Art as Culture War (3) Dismantling the GallowsDr John Blakinger discusses 'Scaffold', Sam Durant's contentious sculpture. Sam Durant's controversial sculpture Scaffold, a wooden structure recalling specific gallows from American history, ignited a firestorm at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in 2017. The work resembled the scaffold used in nearby Mankato, Minnesota, where 38 Dakota men were executed just days after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation - it was the largest mass execution ever held on American soil. This historical reference prompted a backlash from Native communities, who called for the work's removal. Can art help us dismantle the past and loosen its shackles? Or are we always...2019-06-0540 minHistory of Art: Terra Foundation Lecture Series in American ArtTerra Foundation Lectures in American Art 2019 - A Contest of Images: American Art as Culture War (2) The Body of Emmett TillDr John Blakinger speaks about the controversy surrounding Dana Shutz's painting of the body of Emmett Till exhibited at the 2017 Whitney Biennnial. Who has the right to see in an age of image overload? At the 2017 Whitney Biennial, a painting by the artist Dana Schutz depicting the body of Emmett Till, a fifteen-year-old African-American boy lynched in Mississippi in 1955, incited outrage. The artists Hannah Black and Parker Bright condemned the work as "black death spectacle." The episode resuscitated debates over the use and abuse of traumatic pictures, and the way visual images propelling the Civil Rights movement also exploited their...2019-06-0541 minHistory of Art: Terra Foundation Lecture Series in American ArtTerra Foundation Lectures in American Art 2019 - A Contest of Images: American Art as Culture War (2) The Body of Emmett TillDr John Blakinger speaks about the controversy surrounding Dana Shutz's painting of the body of Emmett Till exhibited at the 2017 Whitney Biennnial. Who has the right to see in an age of image overload? At the 2017 Whitney Biennial, a painting by the artist Dana Schutz depicting the body of Emmett Till, a fifteen-year-old African-American boy lynched in Mississippi in 1955, incited outrage. The artists Hannah Black and Parker Bright condemned the work as "black death spectacle." The episode resuscitated debates over the use and abuse of traumatic pictures, and the way visual images propelling the Civil Rights movement also exploited their...2019-06-0541 minHistory of Art: Terra Foundation Lecture Series in American ArtTerra Foundation Lectures in American Art 2019 - A Contest of Images: American Art as Culture War (1) Warhol in SafarilandDr John Blakinger talks about demonstrations against the Whitney Museum of American Art related to its connections with the tear gas manufacturer Safariland. In November 2018, an image of migrants fleeing tear gas at the US-Mexico border ricocheted across the internet, inspiring protests against the Trump administration’s immigration policies but also against a more unlikely target: the Whitney Museum of American Art. The artist-activist collective Decolonize This Place stormed the museum in demonstration against the Whitney’s connections to Safariland, a manufacturer of tear gas. Andy Warhol’s silkscreen canvases, then on view for a major retrospective, took on new meanin...2019-06-0550 minHistory of Art: Terra Foundation Lecture Series in American ArtTerra Foundation Lectures in American Art 2019 - A Contest of Images: American Art as Culture War (1) Warhol in SafarilandDr John Blakinger talks about demonstrations against the Whitney Museum of American Art related to its connections with the tear gas manufacturer Safariland. In November 2018, an image of migrants fleeing tear gas at the US-Mexico border ricocheted across the internet, inspiring protests against the Trump administration’s immigration policies but also against a more unlikely target: the Whitney Museum of American Art. The artist-activist collective Decolonize This Place stormed the museum in demonstration against the Whitney’s connections to Safariland, a manufacturer of tear gas. Andy Warhol’s silkscreen canvases, then on view for a major retrospective, took on new meanin...2019-06-0550 min
Rare Book SchoolBibliography Among the Disciplines: Paper Session 8Paper Session 8: Books as Agents of Contact
Session Organizers: Hansun Hsiung (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science), András Kiséry (The City College of New York), Yael Rice (Amherst College)
Moderator: Isabel Hofmeyr (Professor of African Literature, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; Global Distinguished Professor of English, New York University)
John R. Blakinger (University of Southern California)
“The Book as Agent of Interstellar Contact: The Voyager Record/The EchoStar XVI Artifact”
David Mervart (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)
“A Kyūshū Warlord’s Favorite French Anthology: The Many Lives of a Text”
Priyasha Mukhopadhyay (Harvard University)
“Plagiarism as Cul...2017-11-201h 29