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Lannan Center PodcastSusan Sarandon and Dr. Dino J. Martins | Writing Climate 2025On Thursday, March 27th, the Lannan Center welcomed actress and activist Susan Sarandon to begin the final night of the center's annual symposium, this year entitled "Writing Climate", with a reading from Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. The reading was followed by a conversation with biologist Dr. Dino J. Martins, moderated by author Aminatta Forna. Dr. Dino J. Martins is internationally respected for his evolutionary biology and entomological research, biodiversity conservation work, and natural history writing, and he is widely known as one of Kenya’s leading biological scientists. Dr. Martins graduated with a B.A. in...2025-03-271h 15Lannan Center PodcastDana Levin | 2024-2025 Readings and TalksOn Tuesday, February 25th, the Lannan Center welcomed award-winning poet Dana Levin for a reading, hosted by Carolyn Forché. Dana Levin is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently Now Do You Know Where You Are (2022), a New York Times Notable Book and NPR “Book We Love.” Her first book, In the Surgical Theatre, was chosen by Louise Glück for the 1999 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize and went on to receive numerous honors, including the 2003 PEN/Osterweil Award. Copper Canyon Press brought out her second book, Wedding Day, in 2005, and in 2011...2025-02-2554 minLannan Center PodcastAnne Carson | 2024-2025 Readings and TalksOn Tuesday, February 4th, the Lannan Center welcomed renowned poet, essayist, professor of Classics, and translator Anne Carson for a reading, hosted by Carolyn Forché.Anne Carson was born in Toronto, Ontario, on June 21, 1950. She attended St. Michael’s College at the University of Toronto and, despite leaving twice, received her BA in 1974, her MA in 1975 and her PhD in 1981. Since bursting onto the international poetry scene in 1987 with her long poem “Kinds of Water,” Carson has published numerous books of poetry, including Wrong Norma (New Directions, 2024), a finalist for the National Book Award and long-li...2025-02-0443 minLannan Center PodcastEduardo C. Corral and Tyree Daye | 2024-2025 Readings and TalksOn Tuesday, January 21st, the Lannan Center presented a reading featuring poets Eduardo C. Corral and Tyree Daye, hosted by Carolyn Forché.Eduardo C. Corral is the son of Mexican immigrants. He’s the author of Guillotine, published by Graywolf Press, and Slow Lightning, which won the 2011 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition. He’s the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship, a Whiting Writers’ Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University. He teaches in the MFA program at Washington University at St. Louis.2025-01-211h 01Lannan Center PodcastAleksandar Hemon in Conversation with Rabih Alameddine | 2024-2025 Readings and TalksOn Tuesday, October 22nd, the Lannan Center presented an evening with award-winning author Aleksandar Hemon, hosted by Rabih Alameddine, Lannan Visiting Chair.Aleksandar Hemon is most recently the author of The World and All That It Holds (2023). He is also the author of The Lazarus Project, which was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award, and three collections of short stories: The Question of Bruno; Nowhere Man, which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Love and Obstacles. His other works include two books...2024-10-2358 minLannan Center PodcastShehan Karunatilaka in Conversation with Tope Folarin | 2024-2025 Readings and TalksOn Tuesday, October 1st, the Lannan Center presented an evening with Booker Prize winner Shehan Karunatilaka, hosted by Tope Folarin, Lannan Creative Writing Visiting Lecturer.Shehan Karunatilaka is a Sri Lankan author from Colombo. He is the author of two novels: Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew (2010), which won the Commonwealth Book Prize, the DSC Prize, and the Gratiaen Prize, and The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (Sort of Books, 2022), which won the Booker Prize. His works have been translated into 26 languages. Karunatilaka is also the author of several children’s books, dedicated and inspired by...2024-10-0257 min
Podcasts by Larry LannanGreg Lannan, HSE School Board Candidate, Delaware TownshipGreg Lannan is running for Hamilton Southeastern School Board. This is an at-large election, meaning all voters in the school district vote on all 3 township races. Larry sits down with Greg Lannan to discuss his campaign.2024-09-2030 minLannan Center PodcastRabih Alameddine | 2023-2024 Readings & TalksOn Tuesday, October 17, 2023, the Lannan Center presented a reading by writer and Lannan Visiting Chair, Rabih Alameddine. Introduction by Deborah Tannen, Distinguished University Professor.Rabih Alameddine is the author of six critically acclaimed novels, most recently The Wrong End of the Telescope (Grove Press, 2021), winner of the Pen/Faulkner Prize in 2022. He is also the author of The Angel of History (Grove Press, 2016), winner of the Lambda Literary Award 2017; An Unnecessary Woman (Grove Press, 2014), a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Hakawati (Knopf, 2008); I, The Divine (W...2023-10-1752 minLannan Center PodcastLeila Aboulela | 2023-2024 Readings & TalksOn Tuesday, October 3, 2023 the Lannan Center presented a reading and conversation featuring writer Leila Aboulela and moderated by Tope Folarin, Lannan Creative Writing Visiting Lecturer. Introduction by Rabih Alameddine, Lannan Visiting Chair.Leila Aboulela is a Sudanese writer whose work has received critical recognition and a high profile for its depiction of the interior lives of Muslim women and its distinctive exploration of identity, migration and Islamic spirituality. She is the author of six novels: River Spirit, Bird Summons, Minaret, The Translator, a New York Times 100 Notable Books of the Year, The Kindness of Enemies...2023-10-0352 minLannan Center PodcastArthur Sze | 2023-2024 Readings & TalksOn Tuesday, September 19, 2023, the Lannan Center presented a reading by poet Arthur Sze. Introduction by Duncan Wu, Raymond Wagner Professor in Literary Studies.Arthur Sze has published eleven books of poetry, including Sight Lines (2019), which won the National Book Award, and The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems (2021). His other books include Compass Rose (2014), a Pulitzer Prize finalist and The Ginkgo Light (2009), selected for the PEN Southwest Book Award and the Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association Book Award. He has also published one book of Chinese poetry translations, The Silk Dragon (2001), selected for the...2023-09-191h 05Lannan Center PodcastA Conversation with Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak GurnahOn Wednesday, September 14, 2022, the Lannan Center presented a special evening featuring Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah. Hosted by Lannan Center Director Aminatta Forna. Introduction by Lahra Smith, Director of the African Studies Program.Abdulrazak Gurnah is the 2021 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His most recent novel, AFTERLIVES is forthcoming from Riverhead Books in August 2022. He is the author of nine previous novels, including Paradise (shortlisted for the Booker Prize), By the Sea (longlisted for the Booker Prize and a finalist for the LA Times Book Award), and Desertion. Born and raised in Zanzibar, he is Professor...2022-09-141h 17Lannan Center PodcastVictoria Chang and Rachel Eliza Griffiths | 2021-2022 Readings & TalksOn Tuesday, April 12, 2022, the Lannan Center presented a reading and talk featuring poets Victoria Chang and Rachel Eliza Griffiths. Hosted by Carolyn Forché. Introductions by Lannan Fellows Max Zhang and Hiruni Herat. About Victoria ChangVictoria Chang’s new book of poetry, The Trees Witness Everything is forthcoming (Copper Canyon Press and Corsair Books in the U.K.). Her nonfiction book, Dear Memory (Milkweed Editions), was published in 2021. OBIT (Copper Canyon Press, 2020), her most recent poetry book, was named a New York Times Notable Book, a Time Must-Read Book, and received the Los Angeles Time...2022-04-121h 04Lannan Center PodcastVirtual Event: Valzhyna Mort and Michael Prior | 2021-2022 Readings & TalksOn January 25th, 2022, the Lannan Center presented a reading and talk featuring poets Valzhyna Mort and Michael Prior. Moderated by Carolyn Forché.About Valzhyna Mort Valzhyna Mort is a poet and translator born in Minsk, Belarus. She is the author of three poetry collections, Factory of Tears (Copper Canyon Press 2008), Collected Body (Copper Canyon Press 2011) and, mostly recently, Music for the Dead and Resurrected (FSG, 2020). Mort is a recipient of fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, the Amy Clampitt residency, and the Civitella Raineri residency. Her work has been honored with the Bess Hokin Prize f...2022-01-2653 minLannan Center PodcastSpecial Event: Tope Folarin | 2021-2022 Readings & Talks SeriesOn November 30th, 2021, the Lannan Center presented a reading and talk featuring author Tope Folarin Introduction by Aminatta Forna.About Tope FolarinTope Folarin is a Nigerian-American writer based in Washington, D.C. He won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2013 and was shortlisted once again in 2016. He was also recently named to the Africa39 list of the most promising African writers under 40. Folarin was educated at Morehouse College and the University of Oxford, where he earned two Masters degrees as a Rhodes Scholar. He is the author of A Particular Kind of...2021-11-301h 09
Lannan PodcastsTaking Children, Taking the Land – 10 November 2021 – AudioRecorded on YouTube on 10 November 2021.
Join Noam Chomsky for a talk, then in conversation with E. Tammy Kim on the brutal realities laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic—and the urgent need for an alternative to capitalism.
This was a Readings and Conversations event. This event was in partnership with Haymarket Books.
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2021-11-231h 26Audio – Lannan PodcastsTaking Children, Taking the Land – 10 November 2021 – AudioRecorded on YouTube on 10 November 2021.
Join Noam Chomsky for a talk, then in conversation with E. Tammy Kim on the brutal realities laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic—and the urgent need for an alternative to capitalism.
This was a Readings and Conversations event. This event was in partnership with Haymarket Books.
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Duration: 1:26:16
You may learn more about this event on the Lannan website.
2021-11-231h 26Lannan Center PodcastAminatta Forna in Conversation with John Freeman I 2021-2022 Readings and Talks SeriesOn November 9th, 2021, the Lannan Center presented a reading and talk featuring author Aminatta Forna and editor John Freeman. Introduction by David Gewanter.About Aminatta FornaAminatta Forna was born in Scotland, raised in Sierra Leone and Great Britain and spent periods of her childhood in Iran, Thailand and Zambia. She is the award-winning author of the novels Happiness, The Hired Man, The Memory of Love and Ancestor Stones, and a memoir The Devil that Danced on the Water, and most recently the essay collection, The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion...2021-11-091h 08
Audio – Lannan PodcastsConsequences of Capitalism – 13 October 2021 – AudioRecorded on YouTube on 13 October 2021.
Join Noam Chomsky for a talk, then in conversation with E. Tammy Kim on the brutal realities laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic—and the urgent need for an alternative to capitalism.
Nick Estes put recent headlines surrounding the discovery of mass graves of Native children at Canadian residential schools into historical context. The removal of Indigenous children from their communities and families has a long genocidal legacy that persists today, well beyond the boarding school era in Canada and the United States. The attack on Indigenous children is...2021-10-191h 33
Audio – Lannan PodcastsAbolition, Cultural Freedom, Liberation – 05 October 2021 – AudioRecorded on YouTube on 05 October 2021.
The 2020 Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize was awarded to Angela Y. Davis for her lifetime achievements as a public intellectual advocating for racial, gender, and economic justice; to Mike Davis for his life’s work as a public intellectual who encourages critical analysis of society in the service of constructing an alternative, post-capitalist future in both theory and practice; and Ruth Wilson Gilmore for a lifetime of achievement as a public intellectual working toward the decarceration of California, the United States, and the world. Join all three, along with acclaimed author Ke...2021-10-111h 20Lannan PodcastsAbolition, Cultural Freedom, Liberation – 05 October 2021 – AudioRecorded on YouTube on 05 October 2021.
The 2020 Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize was awarded to Angela Y. Davis for her lifetime achievements as a public intellectual advocating for racial, gender, and economic justice; to Mike Davis for his life’s work as a public intellectual who encourages critical analysis of society in the service of constructing an alternative, post-capitalist future in both theory and practice; and Ruth Wilson Gilmore for a lifetime of achievement as a public intellectual working toward the decarceration of California, the United States, and the world. Join all three, along with acclaimed author Ke...2021-10-111h 20Lannan Center PodcastAn Evening with Acclaimed Writer Sofi OksanenOn September 21st, 2021, the Lannan Center presented a reading and talk featuring Sofi Oksanen. Moderated by Lannan Center Director, Aminatta Forna. Cosponsored by the Georgetown Medical Humanities Initiative, the Georgetown Humanities Initiative, the Global and Comparative Literature Program, the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics, the Women's and Gender Studies Program, and the Women's Center at Georgetown University.About Sofi OksanenSofi Oksanen is a Finnish-Estonian novelist and playwright. She has received numerous prizes for her work, including the Swedish Academy Nordic Prize, the Prix Femina Étranger, the Budapest Grand Prize, the European Bo...2021-09-211h 00
Podcasts by Larry LannanChapter 49 Podcast July 28, 2021There are rumors flying about vaccinations and COVID testing for employees....also, when will employees be called back to the work place? Duncan Giles discusses all that and more with Larry Lannan on this episode of the Chapter 49 Podcast2021-07-2829 min
Podcasts by Larry LannanGrade A Movies Podcast July 28, 2021Adam Aasen, Alec Toombs & Larry Lannan talk about Jungle Cruise, three other new films, along with how new CDC mask guidelines may or many not impact the movie theater business.2021-07-2828 min
Podcasts by Larry LannanChapter 49 Podcast July 23, 2021Duncan Giles & Larry Lannan discuss ratification of the new National Agreement, developments in telework and government travel for the vaccinated, plus much more in this week's podcast.2021-07-2336 minPodcasts by Larry LannanChapter 49 Podcast July 16,2021Duncan Giles & Larry Lannan welcome IRS Engagement Officer Andy Reitmeyer to this week's Chapter 49 Podcast2021-07-1633 minPodcasts by Larry LannanChapter 49 Podcast July 8, 2021Chapter 49 President Duncan Giles joins host Larry Lannan to discuss how the national bargaining went over the past several months, talks about how IRS might (or might not) handle the big hiring blitz expected yet this year, plus much more in this week's podcast.2021-07-0833 min
Podcasts by Larry LannanGrade A Movies Podcast June 30, 2021Join Adam Aasen, Alec Toombs & Larry Lannan for review of Zola, Black Widow, Fear Street Part 1: 1994 and much more in this week's podcast2021-06-3029 minPodcasts by Larry LannanGrade A Movies Podcast June 7, 2021Reviews of "In the Heights," Spare Parts" and Oslo in this week's Grade A Movies Podcast. Adam Aasen, Alec Toombs & Larry Lannan also talk about whether the latest movie theater box office numbers mean movie-goers and back.2021-06-0738 minPodcasts by Larry LannanChapter 49 Podcast June 4, 2021Will IRS employees be required to return to their offices anytime soon? What about mask and appointment policies in Taxpayer Assistance Centers (TACs)? That and more is discussed in this week's Chapter 49 Podcast with Duncan Giles & Larry Lannan2021-06-0431 minPodcasts by Larry LannanChapter 49 Podcast May 27, 2021Paychecks, pay raise prospects, national bargaining and much more in this week's episode of the Chapter 49 Podcast with Duncan Giles and Larry Lannan2021-05-2737 minPodcasts by Larry LannanChapter 49 Podcast May 21. 2021On this week's Chapter 49 Podcast, Duncan Giles joins Larry Lannan and talks about masks, COVID vaccinations, Emergency Paid Leave, the status of national agreement bargaining and much more in this week's podcast2021-05-2133 minPodcasts by Larry LannanChapter 49 Podcast May 14, 2021Will the new CDC COVID mask guidance for those vaccinated impact the IRS work place? Duncan Giles and Larry Lannan discuss that and more in this week's edition of the Chapter 49 Podcast2021-05-1435 minPodcasts by Larry LannanGrade A Movies Podcast May 10, 2021There are 8 film reviews in this episode from Adam Aasen & Alec Toombs. Host Larry Lannan leads a discussion on film venues re-opening in the local area.2021-05-1043 min
Podcasts by Larry LannanChapter 49 Podcast May 7, 2021TAC employees are being called back to the office and we await Treasury guidance on new COVID-related Leave...just two of the many issues discussed in this week's Chapter 49 Podcast with Duncan Giles and Larry Lannan.2021-05-0730 minPodcasts by Larry LannanChapter 49 Podcast One-year anniversary episodeDuncan Giles & Larry Lannan discuss how the Chapter 49 Podcast started and evolved on this one-year anniversary2021-04-2730 minPodcasts by Larry LannanGrade A Movies Podcast April 26, 2021Adam Aasen, Alec Tombs & Larry Lannan discuss the winners (and losers) at the 93rd Oscars2021-04-261h 00Podcasts by Larry LannanChapter 49 Podcast April 23, 2021National bargaining, pandemic issues and volunteer opportunity withdrawn.....Duncan Giles & Larry Lannan discuss those issues and more in this week's Chapter 49 Podcast.2021-04-2330 minPodcasts by Larry LannanChapter 49 Podcast April 16, 2021Duncan Giles and Larry Lannan talk with a heavy heart this week after a mass shooting in Indianapolis, but also discuss a number of issues important to IRS workers2021-04-1641 minLannan Center PodcastReadings & Talks Featuring Carolyn ForchéOn April 13, 2021 the Lannan Center presented a Crowdcast webinar featuring Carolyn Forché. Moderated by Penn Szittya of the Lannan Foundation.Carolyn Forché's first volume of poetry, Gathering the Tribes, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, was followed by The Country Between Us, The Angel of History, and Blue Hour. In March, 2020, Penguin Press published her fifth collection of poems, In the Lateness of the World. She is also the author of the memoir What You Have Heard Is True (Penguin Press, 2019), a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the...2021-04-131h 01Podcasts by Larry LannanChapter 49 Podcast April 9, 2021Employee COVID vaccinations, retirement backlog and trepidation about returning to the office....those issues and more are discussed in this week's Chapter 49 Podcast with Duncan Giles & Larry Lannan2021-04-0942 minPodcasts by Larry LannanChapter 49 Podcast April 2, 2021Chapter 49 President Duncan Giles joins host Larry Lannan for this week's episode of the Chapter 49 Podcast2021-04-0232 minPodcasts by Larry LannanChapter 49 Podcast March 26, 2021Duncan Giles & Larry Lannan cover a wide variety of issues in this week's podcast, including management's use of Skype for attendance, administrative time available for dealing with COVID and the great wipes controversy.2021-03-2651 minPodcasts by Larry LannanChapter 49 Podcast March 19, 2021Duncan Giles and Larry Lannan talk about the National Agreement discussions, COVID time off and a number of other topics in this week's edition of the Chapter 49 Podcast.2021-03-1953 minLannan Center PodcastThe View From Abroad: "What Can America Learn from the Experience of Other Nations at a Time of Crisis?"On March 18, 2021 the Lannan Center presented a Crowdcast webinar on the subject The View From Abroad: "What Can America Learn from the Experience of Other Nations at a Time of Crisis?" This was the launch event of "Beyond Identity: Reimagining the American Narrative," the Lannan Seminars at Georgetown University, and featured Aleksandar Hemon, Monica McWilliams, Ebrahim Rasool, and Elif Shafak. This event was moderated by BBC's Razia Iqbal. Hosted in association with Beyond Conflict and Beyond Borders Scotland. Cosponsored by the Conflict Resolution Program, the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, and the Laboratory for Global...2021-03-181h 28Lannan Center Podcast"THIS LAND:" An Evening with Salman RushdieOn March 18, 2021 the Lannan Center presented a Crowdcast webinar featuring author Salman Rushdie, as part of "THIS LAND" the 2021 Lannan Center Symposium. Moderated by BBC's Razia Iqbal.About Salman RushdieSalman Rushdie is the author of fourteen novels, most recently Quichotte, The Golden House, and Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights. His book Midnight’s Children was awarded the Booker Prize in 1981 and the Best of the Booker in 2008. He is also the author of a book of stories, East, West, and four works of non-fiction – Joseph Anton – A Memoir, Imaginary Homela...2021-03-1857 minPodcasts by Larry LannanGrade A Movies Podcast March 18, 2021It is Oscar season once again. Adam Aasen, Alec Toombs & Larry Lannan look at the major nominee categories in this podcast.2021-03-1834 minLannan Center Podcast"THIS LAND": A Reading Featuring Poet Laureate Joy HarjoOn March 16, 2021 the Lannan Center presented a Crowdcast webinar featuring Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, as part of "THIS LAND" the 2021 Lannan Center Symposium. Moderated by poet Carolyn Forché.About Joy HarjoIn 2019, Joy Harjo was appointed the 23rd United States Poet Laureate, the first Native American to hold the position. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Harjo is an internationally known award-winning poet, writer, performer, and saxophone player of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation. Harjo’s nine books of poetry include An American Sunrise, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, How We Became Human: New and Sel...2021-03-161h 06Podcasts by Larry LannanGrade A Movies Podcast March 5, 2021Adam Aasen, Alec Toombs & Larry Lannan review Nomadland, United States vs. Billie Holiday & many more films out today. Also, all three discuss how to handle old, classic films that contain racist or other objectionable material by today's standards.2021-03-0542 min
Podcasts by Larry LannanChapter 49 Podcast February 26, 2021The national NTEU Director of Communications, Sheila McCormick, joins Duncan Giles & Larry Lannan for this week's edition of the Chapter 49 Podcast.2021-02-2634 minPodcasts by Larry LannanGrade A Movies Podcast February 20, 2021Adam Aasen, Alec Toombs & Larry Lannan talk about Judas & the Black Messiah, Nomadland and many other new films2021-02-2049 minPodcasts by Larry LannanChapter 49 Podcast February 18, 2021This week's Chapter 49 Podcast features news on COVID & the IRS, an important arbitration decision and the latest on law enforcement retirement for Revenue Officers. Duncan Giles & Larry Lannan talk about those issues and more in this week's edition.2021-02-1832 minPodcasts by Larry LannanChapter 49 Podcast February 11, 2021Duncan Giles & Larry Lannan review NTEU accomplishments for employees during 2020, and address a number of other issues in this podcast2021-02-1133 minLannan Center PodcastReadings & Talks Featuring Shane McCrae and Vievee FrancisOn February 9, 2021 the Lannan Center presented a Crowdcast webinar featuring Shane McCrae and Vievee Francis. Introductions by Lannan Fellows Joshua Kim and Renny Simone. Moderated by Carolyn Forché.Shane McCrae is the author of seven books of poetry, including Sometimes I Never Suffered (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020); In the Language of My Captor (Wesleyan University Press, 2017), which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and The Animal Too Big to Kill (Persea Books, 2015), winner of the 2014 Lexi Rudnitsky/Editor’s Choice Award. He is the recipient of a Whi...2021-02-0957 minPodcasts by Larry LannanGrade A Movies Podcat February 6, 2021Adam Aasen, Alec Toombs & Larry Lannan talk about the Golden Globe nominations and much more in this edition of our podcast2021-02-0658 minPodcasts by Larry LannanChapter 49 Podcast January 29, 2021Here is this week's Chapter 49 Podcast, featuring Duncan Giles & Larry Lannan2021-01-2933 minLannan Center PodcastReadings & Talks Featuring Javier Zamora and Natalie Scenters-ZapicoOn January 26, 2021 the Lannan Center presented a Crowdcast webinar featuring Javier Zamora and Natalie Scenters-Zapico. Introductions by Lannan Fellows Dennese Mae Javier and Nohora Arrieta Fernandez. Moderated by Carolyn Forché.Javier Zamora was born in La Herradura, El Salvador in 1990. His father fled El Salvador when he was a year old; and his mother when he was about to turn five. Both parents’ migrations were caused by the US-funded Salvadoran Civil War (1980-1992). In 1999, Javier migrated through Guatemala, Mexico, and eventually the Sonoran Desert. After a coyote abandoned his group in Oaxaca, Javier managed to mak...2021-01-2657 minPodcasts by Larry LannanChapter 49 Podcast January 22, 2021Duncan Giles & Larry Lannan discuss what may be ahead for a federal worker pay raise in 2022 and how the Biden Administration appears to view civil servants.2021-01-2232 minPodcasts by Larry LannanChapter 49 Podcast January 15,2021Duncan Giles & Larry Lannan talk about the presidential inauguration, security, WSL, Telework and much more in this episode of the Chapter 49 Podcast2021-01-1533 minPodcasts by Larry LannanChapter 49 Podcast December 10, 2020Duncan Giles joins host Larry Lannan for a discussion of funding the government for another week, the 15-day rule in managers evaluating your work, coronavirus the retirement processing backlog and much more in this edition of the Chapter 49 Podcast.2020-12-1031 minPodcasts by Larry LannanGrade A Movies Podcast November 21, 2020Adam is away this week, so Alec Toombs and Larry Lannan look at the latest films and news from the movie business.2020-11-2130 minPodcasts by Larry LannanChapter 49 Podcast November 19, 2020Duncan Giles joins Larry Lannan for this week's Chapter 49 Podcast2020-11-1931 minLannan Center PodcastReadings & Talks Featuring Carmen Giménez Smith and José OlivarezOn November 17, 2020, the Lannan Center presented a Crowdcast webinar featuring Carmen Giménez Smith and José Olivarez. Introduced by Aminatta Forna and moderated by English Department Chair Ricardo Ortíz and Professor Elizabeth Velez. Carmen Giménez Smith is most recently the author of Be Recorder (2020), which was shortlisted for both the National Book Award and the PEN Open Book Award. Her 2013 collection Milk and Filth, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is a Professor of English at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, VA.José O...2020-11-171h 00Podcasts by Larry LannanGrade A Movies Podcast November 14, 2020Adam Aasen, Alec Toombs & Larry Lannan are back this week with a discussion about film in the Grade A Movies Podcast2020-11-1444 minPodcasts by Larry LannanChapter 49 Podcast November 13, 2020Lots to discuss in this week's Chapter 49 Podcast with Duncan Giles & Larry Lannan2020-11-1333 minAudio – Lannan PodcastsMasha Gessen with Anand Giridharadas – Surviving Autocracy 20 October 2020 – AudioRecorded on YouTube on 20 October 2020.
Masha Gessen is the author of eleven books and a staff writer for the New Yorker. In addition to Surviving Autocracy (2020), their recent books include The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (2017), which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction; The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy (2015), about the Boston Marathon bombers; and The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin (2012). They spoke with Anand Giridharadas, who is an editor-at-large for Time magazine, an on-air political analyst for MSNBC, and a visiting scholar at New...2020-10-291h 20Lannan PodcastsMasha Gessen with Anand Giridharadas – Surviving Autocracy 20 October 2020 – AudioRecorded on YouTube on 20 October 2020.
Masha Gessen is the author of eleven books and a staff writer for the New Yorker. In addition to Surviving Autocracy (2020), their recent books include The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (2017), which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction; The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy (2015), about the Boston Marathon bombers; and The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin (2012). They spoke with Anand Giridharadas, who is an editor-at-large for Time magazine, an on-air political analyst for MSNBC, and a visiting scholar at New...2020-10-291h 20Podcasts by Larry LannanGrade A Movies Podcast October 24, 2020Adam Aasen & Alec Toombs join Larry Lannan to review some recent films, list their favorite scary movie and talk about the state of the movie theater business2020-10-2454 minLannan Center PodcastValeria Luiselli in Conversation with Aminatta Forna | 2020-2021 Readings and Talks SeriesOn October 20, 2020, the Lannan Center presented a Crowdcast webinar featuring Valeria Luiselli in conversation with Aminatta Forna. Introduced by Lakshmi Krishnan. Valeria Luiselli's recent novel, Lost Children Archive was a finalist for the 2019 Kirkus Prize for Fiction and long-listed for the 2019 Booker Prize, and has been named a best book of 2019 by Entertainment Weekly, Vanity Fair, Vulture, and Time. Lost Children Archive sits beside Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions, Luiselli’s ground-breaking book-length essay that has become a touchstone text for those looking to facilitate meaningful and informed conversations around the...2020-10-201h 02Podcasts by Larry LannanChapter 49 Podcast October 1, 2020Awards, the continuing resolution, voting, Hatch Act reminders, printers and more.....all topics of discussion during this Chapter 49 Podcast featuring Duncan Giles & Larry Lannan2020-10-0131 minLannan Center PodcastSusan Choi in Conversation with Maureen Corrigan | 2020-2021 Readings and Talks SeriesOn September 29, 2020 the Lannan Center presented a Crowdcast webinar featuring Susan Choi in Conversation with Maureen Corrigan. Introduction by Aminatta Forna.Susan Choi is most recently the author of Trust Exercise (2019), which won the National Book Award for fiction, and her first book for children, Camp Tiger (2019). Her first novel, The Foreign Student, won the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction. Her second novel, American Woman, was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize. Her third novel, A Person of Interest, was a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award. In 2010 she was named the inaugural recipient of th...2020-09-2957 minPodcasts by Larry LannanChapter 49 Podcast 09242020NTEU Chapter 49 President Duncan Giles joins host Larry Lannan to discuss employee awards, the continuing resolution to fund the government, WSL certification for Teleworkers and much more.2020-09-2440 minPodcasts by Larry LannanChapter 49 podcast September 18, 2020Chapter 49 President Duncan Giles joins host Larry Lannan to discuss Weather & Safety Leave documentation, the latest on Social Security withholding deferrals, a continuing resolution to fund the government and more in this weekly podcast.2020-09-1831 minPodcasts by Larry LannanChapter 49 Podcast 09162020NTEU Attorney Thomas Coates joins Chapter 49 President Duncan Giles and host Larry Lannan in a discussion about the Hatch Act2020-09-1628 minPodcasts by Larry LannanGrade A Movies Podcast 09042020In the very first Grade A Movies Podcast, Alec Toombs and Adam Aasen join Larry Lannan to talk about the new Christopher Nolan film Tenet, and talk about a few other film-related items.2020-09-0459 minPodcasts by Larry LannanChapter 49 Podcast September 3, 2020NTEU National Director of Negotiations Ken Moffett joins Chapter 49 President Duncan Giles and host Larry Lannan on this week's Chapter 49 podcast2020-09-0330 minLannan PodcastsYanis Varoufakis with Daniel Denvir 13 August 2020 –ocracy 20 October 2020 – Video��������������������– Video� VideoRecorded on YouTube on 13 August 2020.
Yanis Varoufakis is a member of Greece’s parliament and leader of the Greek political party MeRA25, which belongs to the pan-European movement DiEM25. He spoke with Daniel Denvir.
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In this episode, Yanis Varoufakis joined us from his home in Greece and discussed the global economy. He then engaged in conversation with Daniel Denvir, host of “The Dig” podcast from jacobin magazine. Co-presented by Haymarket Books.
You ma...2020-08-2700 minLannan PodcastsJames Heffernan: Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom, and the Ghost of Shakespeare, 16 June 2020 – AudioRecorded by Mr. Heffernan remotely at his teaching office.
James Heffernan, Professor Emeritus of English at Dartmouth College, has lectured extensively on James Joyce, particularly Ulysses, which he has covered in 24 lectures for the Teaching Company. His many articles include a close study of Molly’s monologue, and his books include studies of English Romantic poetry and landscape painting, interart relations, “ekphrastic” poetry from Homer to John Ashbery, and—most recently– Hospitality and Treachery in Western Literature, published by Yale in 2014. He is now nearing completion of a book on politics and literature at the dawn of Wo...2020-06-1200 minLannan Center PodcastJohn Murillo and Tina Chang I 2019-2020 Readings and Talks SeriesOn February 25, 2020, the Lannan Center presented a reading and talk featuring poets John Murillo and Tina Chang. Introduction by Patricia Guzman.John Murillo is the author of the poetry collections Up Jump the Boogie (2010), which was a finalist for both the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the PEN Open Book Award, and Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry, forthcoming from Four Way Books in 2020. His work has appeared in Callaloo, Court Green, Ninth Letter, and Ploughshares, and is forthcoming in Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of African-American Poetry. A graduate of New York University’s MFA program in creative wr...2020-03-021h 06Lannan Center Podcast"Power and Language" with Caine Prize Winner Lesley Nneka ArimahOn February 18, 2020, the Lannan Center presented "Power and Language," a special event with Caine Prize winning writer Lesley Nneka Arimah. Welcome: Aminatta Forna (Director of the Lannan Center, Georgetown University). Introduction: Scott Taylor (Director of the African Studies Program, Georgetown University).Lesley Nneka Arimah is the author of “Skinned,” winner of the 2019 Caine Prize for African Writing; What It Means When A Man Falls From the Sky (2017), her debut short story collection; and “Light,” winner of the 2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Africa. What It Means When A Man Falls From the Sky was chosen for the New York...2020-02-211h 01Lannan Center PodcastTerrance Hayes I 2019-2020 Readings and Talks SeriesOn January 21, 2020, the Lannan Center presented a reading and talk featuring poet Terrance Hayes. Terrance Hayes is the author of American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassins (Penguin, 2018), a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry; To Float In The Space Between: Drawings and Essays in Conversation with Etheridge Knight (Wave, 2018); How to Be Drawn (2015); Lighthead (2010), which won the 2010 National Book Award for poetry; Muscular Music, which won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award; Hip Logic, winner of the 2001 National Poetry Series, and Wind in a Box. An artist-in-residence at New York University, Hayes currently resides...2020-01-2754 minAudio – Lannan PodcastsNoura Erakat with Janine Jackson, 4 December 2019 – AudioRecorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on December 4, 2019.
Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney and assistant professor at Rutgers University. She has served as legal counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives, as a legal advocate for Palestinian refugee rights at the United Nations, and as the national grassroots organizer and legal advocate at the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. She is the author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine. Erakat’s research interests include human rights and humanitarian, refugee, and national se...2019-12-061h 20Lannan PodcastsNoura Erakat with Janine Jackson, 4 December 2019 – AudioRecorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on December 4, 2019.
Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney and assistant professor at Rutgers University. She has served as legal counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives, as a legal advocate for Palestinian refugee rights at the United Nations, and as the national grassroots organizer and legal advocate at the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. She is the author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine. Erakat’s research interests include human rights and humanitarian, refugee, and national se...2019-12-061h 20Lannan Center Podcast“Power and Language”: Juan Gabriel Vásquez in Conversation with Marie AranaOn December 5, 2019, the Lannan Center presented a special event featuring author Juan Gabriel Vásquez. This event was introduced by Aminatta Forna and moderated by Marie Arana.Juan Gabriel Vásquez is the author of numerous novels, including The Shape of the Ruins (2018), which was shortlisted for the 2019 International Man Booker Prize; Reputations (2013), a New York Times Best Book of the Year; and The Sound of Things Falling (2011), a National Bestseller and winner of the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Vásquez’s novels have been published in twenty-five languages worldwide. After sixteen years in Franc...2019-12-051h 02Audio – Lannan PodcastsEve L. Ewing with Wayne Au, 13 November 2019 – AudioRecorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on November 13, 2019.
Eve L. Ewing is a sociologist of education whose research is focused on racism, social inequality, and urban policy, and the impact of these forces on American public schools and the lives of young people. She is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. Her book Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side explores the relationship between the closing of public schools and the structural history of race and racism in Ch...2019-11-161h 29Lannan PodcastsEve L. Ewing with Wayne Au, 13 November 2019 – AudioRecorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on November 13, 2019.
Eve L. Ewing is a sociologist of education whose research is focused on racism, social inequality, and urban policy, and the impact of these forces on American public schools and the lives of young people. She is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. Her book Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side explores the relationship between the closing of public schools and the structural history of race and racism in Ch...2019-11-161h 29Audio – Lannan PodcastsDeborah Levy with John Freeman, 30 October 2019 – AudioRecorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on October 30, 2019.
Deborah Levy, a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, writes fiction, plays, and poetry. Her work has been staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company, broadcast on the BBC, and translated widely across the world. The author of highly praised novels, including Hot Milk and Swimming Home (both Man Booker Prize finalists), The Unloved, and Billy and Girl; the acclaimed story collection Black Vodka; and part one of her working autobiography, Things I Don’t Want to Know, she lives in London. Her la...2019-11-031h 32Lannan PodcastsNatalie Scenters-Zapico, Poetry, 13 October 2019 – AudioRecorded at the Lannan Meeting House in Santa Fe, New Mexico on October 13, 2019. Natalie Scenters-Zapico is from the sister cities of El Paso, Texas, USA, and Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua, México. Her first book, The Verging Cities (Center for Literary Publishing 2015), won the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, Great Lakes Colleges Association’s New […]2019-10-2300 minAudio – Lannan PodcastsNatalie Scenters-Zapico, Poetry, 13 October 2019 – AudioRecorded at the Lannan Meeting House in Santa Fe, New Mexico on October 13, 2019.
Natalie Scenters-Zapico is from the sister cities of El Paso, Texas, USA, and Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua, México. Her first book, The Verging Cities (Center for Literary Publishing 2015), won the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, Great Lakes Colleges Association’s New Writers Award, NACCS Foco Book Prize, and the Utah Book Award. Lima :: Limón, her second poetry collection, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2019.
Scenters-Zapico’s poems have appeared in a wide range of anthologies and literar...2019-10-2357 minLannan Center PodcastIlya Kaminsky & John James | 2019-2020 Readings and Talks SeriesOn September 24, 2019, the Lannan Center presented a reading and talk featuring poets Ilya Kaminsky and John James. Introduced by Aminatta Forna. Ilya Kaminsky is the author of Deaf Republic (Graywolf, 2019) and Dancing In Odessa (Tupelo, 2004). He has also co-edited and co-translated many other books, including Ecco Anthology of International Poetry (Harper Collins) and Dark Elderberry Branch: Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva (Alice James Books). His awards include the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Whiting Writer’s Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Metcalf Award, Lannan Foundation’s Fellowship and the NEA Fellowship. Currently, he holds the Bourne Chair in Poe...2019-10-031h 05Audio – Lannan PodcastsVijay Prashad with Melanie K. Yazzie, 25 September 2019 – AudioRecorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on September 25, 2019.
Vijay Prashad is a Marxist historian and journalist. He is the director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, a movement-driven research institution based in Argentina, Brazil, India, and South Africa. He is also chief editor of LeftWord Books, a 20-year-old Marxist publishing house based in New Delhi. Additionally, Prashad is the chief correspondent for Globetrotter and writes a regular column for Frontline (India) and BirGün (Turkey). He has written 25 books, including The Darker Nations: A Peoples History of the Third World and T...2019-09-281h 14Audio – Lannan PodcastsBoots Riley with Robin D. G. Kelley, 11 September 2019 – Audio
Boots Riley in conversation with Robin D. G. Kelley in Santa Fe, NM
Boots Riley is a provocative and prolific poet, rapper, songwriter, producer, screenwriter, director, community organizer, and public speaker. He is the lead vocalist of The Coup and Street Sweeper Social Club. His directorial debut, the comedy-fantasy-sci-fi film Sorry to Bother You, premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. Fervently dedicated to social change, Riley was deeply involved with the Occupy Oakland movement and was one of the leaders of the activist group the Young Comrades. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Tell Homeland...2019-09-161h 29Audio – Lannan PodcastsSebastian Barry with Daniel Mendelsohn, 1 May 2019 – AudioRecorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on May 1, 2019.
Sebastian Barry is a novelist, poet, and playwright. His latest book, Days without End (2016), tells the story of Thomas McNulty, a 17-year-old fleeing the Great Famine in Ireland by enlisting in the U.S. Army in the 1850s. He is sent to fight Sioux and Yurok Indians and, ultimately, fights in the Civil War. The central love story of the novel is between two men and was inspired by Barry’s son’s homosexual relationship. Of his son’s relationship, Barry states, “I look at...2019-05-071h 26Lannan Center PodcastNikky Finney | 2018-2019 Readings and Talks SeriesOn April 23, 2019, the Lannan Center presented a reading and talk featuring poet Nikky Finney. Introduced by Aminatta Forna. Nikky Finney is the author of the poetry collections Head Off & Split (TriQuarterly Books, 2011), winner of the 2011 National Book Award; The World Is Round (InnerLight Publishing, 2003); Rice (Sister Vision, 1995); and On Wings Made of Gauze (W. Morrow, 1985). She has been a faculty member at Cave Canem, a founding member of the Affrilachian Poets, and professor for twenty-three years at the University of Kentucky. Music: Quantum Jazz — "Orbiting A Distant Planet" — Provided by Jamendo.2019-04-2358 minAudio – Lannan PodcastsRuth Wilson Gilmore with Rachel Kushner, 17 April 2019 – AudioRecorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on April 17, 2019.
Ruth Wilson Gilmore is director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics and a professor of geography at the City University of New York. She is most famous for arguing that the movement for abolition, with its proud history of challenging slavery, should be applied today to the abolition of prisons. In an era when 2.3 million people are behind bars in the United States, she challenges us to think about whether it is ever necessary or productive to lock people in cages.2019-04-211h 30Audio – Lannan PodcastsEdwidge Danticat with Aja Monet, 27 March 2019 – AudioRecorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on March 27, 2019.
Edwidge Danticat is the author of several books, including Krik? Krak!, a collection of short stories that encompass both the cruelties and the high ideals of Haitian life. Danticat’s 2004 novel The Dew Breaker spins a series of related stories around a shadowy central figure, a Haitian immigrant to the United States who reveals to his artist daughter that he is not, as she believes, a prison escapee but a former prison guard and skilled torturer.
When asked about being a ro...2019-03-291h 18Audio – Lannan PodcastsDahr Jamail with William Rivers Pitt, 13 March 2019 – AudioRecorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on March 13, 2019.
Dahr Jamail is an award-winning author and journalist. In 2003 he was one of very few unembedded journalists in the early stages of the Iraq War. He has written for Le Monde Diplomatique, the Guardian, the Nation, the Huffington Post, the Sunday Herald in Scotland, and Foreign Policy in Focus, and has contributed to Democracy Now!, Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English, the BBC, NPR, and numerous other radio and television stations around the globe. In 2008 he was awarded the Martha Gellhorn Award for Investigative...2019-03-141h 20Audio – Lannan PodcastsRichard Powers with Tayari Jones, 27 February 2019 – AudioRecorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on February 27, 2019.
Richard Powers is the author of 12 novels. These works employ multiple narrative frames to explore connections among disciplines as disparate as photography, artificial intelligence, musical composition, genomics, game theory, virtual reality, race, business, and ecology. He has said, “Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.”
His novels include Three Farm...2019-03-021h 20Audio – Lannan PodcastsTracy K. Smith with Joy Harjo, 6 February 2019 – AudioRecorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on February 6, 2019.
Tracy K. Smith was appointed the 22nd United States poet laureate in 2017 and was reappointed for a second term in 2018. During her first term, Smith gave readings and led discussions as a part of a pilot project in rural communities in New Mexico, South Carolina, and Kentucky. She has continued to pursue engagements in small towns across America, stating, “Poetry invites us to listen to other voices, to make space for other perspectives, and to care about the lives of others who may no...2019-02-081h 19Audio – Lannan PodcastsIlan Pappé with Dima Khalidi, 23 January 2019 – AudioRecorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on January 23, 2019.
Ilan Pappé is an expatriate Israeli historian and socialist activist, educated at the University of Jerusalem and the University of Oxford. He founded the Academic Institute for Peace in Givat Haviva, Israel, and was its director from 1992 to 2000. He was also chair of the Emil Tuma Institute for Palestine Studies in Haifa. His 2016 book The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories received the Palestine Book Award. He has published 17 other books and is currently a professor at the University o...2019-01-251h 27Audio – Lannan PodcastsDavid Harvey with Laura Flanders, 24 October 2018 – AudioRecorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on October 24, 2018.
David Harvey, a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, has taught Karl Marx’s Capital and its contemporary application to students and members of the public for 40 years. “Once you can hang a price tag on something,” he argues, “you can in principle put a price tag on anything, including conscience and honor, to say nothing of body parts and children.
His most recent book is Marx, Capital, and the Madness...2018-10-271h 19