BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Litseen - ECPv6.15.11//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://litseen.com
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Litseen
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:UTC
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:UTC
DTSTART:20160101T000000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170612T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170612T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T001311
CREATED:20170425T013641Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170425T013641Z
UID:26279-1497294000-1497301200@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Mark Hull
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nMasquerade: Treason\, the Holocaust\, and an Irish Impostor \nco-authored by Mark Hull and Vera Moynes \nfrom University of Oklahoma Press \nPhyllis Ursula James. Nora O’Mara. Róisín Ní Mhéara. Like her name\, the life of Rosaleen James changed many times as she followed a convoluted path from abandoned child\, to foster daughter of an aristocratic British family\, to traitor during World War II\, to her emergence as a full Irish woman afterward. In Masquerade\, authors Mark M. Hull and Vera Moynes tell James’s story as it unfolds against the backdrop of the most important events of the twentieth century. James’s life—both real and imagined—makes for an incredible but true story. \nBy altering her identity to suit the situation\, James manipulated almost everyone she encountered: the German intelligence service\, the Nazi propaganda broadcasting service\, British intelligence\, and various Irish cultural groups. She was in a liaison with Irish writer Francis Stuart and\, with him\, provided a voice for Nazi radio programs aimed at neutral Ireland\, served as the pseudo-Irish expert for German espionage missions\, and participated in the failed\, almost comical effort to recruit Irish prisoners of war to join the Nazis against Great Britain—quite a series of performances\, considering her only contact with Ireland had been a weeklong visit in 1937. \nImmediately after the war\, James was wanted by British intelligence as a “renegade” (traitor)\, but her case was quickly squelched by the British government. Drawing on an assumed wartime persona\, she became fluent in Irish Gaelic and organized a number of conferences for which she won grants from the Irish government. James garnered wider attention in 1992 with her autobiography\, published in Gaelic\, in which she claimed that the Holocaust was a myth—a belief she maintained until her death in 2013. \nIn documenting James’s life of deception\, Hull and Moynes masterfully analyze how an intellectually gifted child turned traitor to her country and convincingly rebranded herself as an Irish patriot and intellectual\, while denying historical reality. The story of Rosaleen James reminds us that reality may be much less—or more—than what meets the eye and ear. \nMark M. Hull\, Associate Professor of Military History at the U.S Army Command and General Staff College\, Fort Leavenworth\, Kansas\, is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society\, an attorney\, and the author of Irish Secrets: German Espionage in Wartime Ireland\, 1939–1945.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mark-hull/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170612T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170612T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T001311
CREATED:20170522T132015Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170523T020411Z
UID:27007-1497295800-1497301200@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Philip Kobylarz + Renee Rettig
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is excited to host Philip Kobylarz for his new book A Miscellany of Diverse Things. He’ll be in conversation with Renee Rettig. \nPlease note: this event will be held at the Bindery\, 1727 Haight St. in San Francisco. It is free and open to the public. Join us! \nThe essence of a miscellany of diverse things is not merely to catalog a wunderkammer of everyday objects\, but moreover to hold up a double mirror: one to reveal the interior lives of objects\, and another to reflect the depths of their creators and owners. Kobylarz’s poetry may initially elevate the mundane\, but its deepest design is to ask what the human possession divulges about the human being. The quotidian isn’t only ecstatic; the quotidian is a book of revelations. \nWith nods to Flaubert’s Le Dictionnaire des IdEes Recues and Bierce’s Devil’s Dictionary\, Kobylarz moves beyond a contained lexicon to a flung-open cabinet of curiosities. Encyclopedic in its compilation (more than 400 entries in this dictionary volume)\, miscellany avoids the static inventory list of a storehouse to embody the world as theatre. There are no museum exhibits\, with objects isolated and preserved in glass cases. Instead\, Kobylarz places spotlights on the minute\, under-appreciated\, and even unloved. He regards common objects as pearls within the world of an oyster\, but never forgets their genesis of grit and irritant.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/philip-kobylarz-and-renee-rettig/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR