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SUMMARY:Virtual Class: Wendy Walsh - Continuing the Journey with Dante's Purgatorio (via Zoom)
DESCRIPTION:Continue the journey with Dante on Zoom! Join Wendy Walsh for the reading and study of Purgatorio\, the second cantica of Dante’s Commedia. \nDante and Virgil begin their climb of the immense Mountain of Purgatory in the middle of the unpopulated waters of the Southern Hemisphere. Before reaching Purgatory proper\, they travel through Ante Purgatory and then up through the seven terraces\, each one reflecting one of the seven deadly sins. Their goal is the Earthly Paradise at the top of the mountain and along the way they will meet the many saved souls who are happily purifying themselves for their ascent to Paradise.  Purgatory is “where the soul of man is cleansed\,/ made worthy to ascend to Heaven. (dove l’umano spirito si purga/e di salire al ciel diventa degno” Canto I\, 5-6.) \nWendy Walsh has a PhD in Italian Literature from UC Berkeley. She has been teaching Italian language and literature since 1979.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-class-wendy-walsh-continuing-the-journey-with-dantes-purgatorio-via-zoom/
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SUMMARY:Mahmood Mamdani in conversation with Gil Anidjar
DESCRIPTION:discussing \nNeither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities \nby Mahmood Mamdani \npublished by Belknap Press (an imprint of Harvard University Press) \n———- \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register. (link to be posted soon) \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase book. (link to be posted soon) \n———– \n\nMaking the radical argument that the nation-state was born of colonialism\, this book calls us to rethink political violence and reimagine political community beyond majorities and minorities. \nIn this genealogy of political modernity\, Mahmood Mamdani argues that the nation-state and the colonial state created each other. In case after case around the globe—from the New World to South Africa\, Israel to Germany to Sudan—the colonial state and the nation-state have been mutually constructed through the politicization of a religious or ethnic majority at the expense of an equally manufactured minority. \nThe model emerged in North America\, where genocide and internment on reservations created both a permanent native underclass and the physical and ideological spaces in which new immigrant identities crystallized as a settler nation. In Europe\, this template would be used by the Nazis to address the Jewish Question\, and after the fall of the Third Reich\, by the Allies to redraw the boundaries of Eastern Europe’s nation-states\, cleansing them of their minorities. After Nuremberg the template was used to preserve the idea of the Jews as a separate nation. By establishing Israel through the minoritization of Palestinian Arabs\, Zionist settlers followed the North American example. The result has been another cycle of violence. \nNeither Settler nor Native offers a vision for arresting this historical process. Mamdani rejects the “criminal” solution attempted at Nuremberg\, which held individual perpetrators responsible without questioning Nazism as a political project and thus the violence of the nation-state itself. Instead\, political violence demands political solutions: not criminal justice for perpetrators but a rethinking of the political community for all survivors—victims\, perpetrators\, bystanders\, beneficiaries—based on common residence and the commitment to build a common future without the permanent political identities of settler and native. Mamdani points to the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa as an unfinished project\, seeking a state without a nation. \nGil Anidjar teaches in the Department of Religion and the Department of Middle Eastern\, South Asian\, and African Studies at Columbia University. He is the author\, among other books\, of The Jew\, the Arab: A History of the Enemy (Stanford UP\, 2003) and Blood: A Critique of Christianity (Columbia UP\, 2014). \nMahmood Mamdani is Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and Professor of Anthropology and of Middle Eastern\, South Asian\, and African Studies (MESAAS) at Columbia University and Director of the Makerere Institute of Social Research in Kampala. He is the author of Citizen and Subject\, When Victims Become Killers\, and Good Muslim\, Bad Muslim.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mahmood-mamdani-in-conversation-with-gil-anidjar/
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SUMMARY:Learn Deep Revision Techniques
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Laurel Yourke will speak on the heart of revision-it’s not just polishing or substituting one word for another. Instead\, look at revision as viewing at your own words in a completely new way: re-envisioning them. One might divide this approach into five steps: \nWhat is the essence of your story\, poem\, or book? \nWhat is deep structure\, and how can you use it to diagnose? \nWhat issues do you want to tackle\, and how will you approach this process? \nWhat’s the relationship between author\, narrator\, characters\, and reader? \nWhat’s needed for that final polish? \nView revision through the lens of exploration\, and it becomes an exciting challenge to transform your project into everything you hoped it would be. \nDr. Laurel Yourke\, who has received two teaching awards\, recently published Beyond the First Draft: Deep Novel Revision. Earlier publications include Take Your Characters to Dinner (on the craft of fiction) and Waiting for Beethoven (a poetry collection). During her career at UW-Madison Continuing Studies\, she taught students from eight to eighty\, presenting at Writer’s Institute\, Write by the Lake\, School of the Arts\, among others. Her speaking engagements across Wisconsin ranged from writing and revising fiction\, nonfiction\, and poetry. \nBuy your ticket now! \nhttps://www.ticketsource.us/california-writers-club-berkeley-branch/cwc-speaker-series-dr-laurel-yourke-deep-revision-techniques/2021-01-17/13:00/t-lggxgp \n  \nUpcoming Speaker Series Events \nFebruary 21st: Sage Cohen \nApril 18th: Emily Cotler \nMarch 21st: TBA \nMay 16th: Author Panel \nJune 20th: Member Book Launch (Authors Published in 2020 – 2021) \n  \nThe California Writers Club (CWC) formed in 1909. Today the nonprofit CWC has a statewide membership of nearly 1\,800 members and 22 branches. CWC member-volunteers serve aspiring writers\, published writers\, and supporters by providing  writing conferences\, contests\, critique and support groups\, workshops\, and publishing opportunities. \n$10 For Non-Members; $5 For Members. \nhttps://cwc-berkeley.org berkeley.cwc@gmail.com 510-629-1909
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Walker and Lily Diamond with Whitney Leigh Morris - What's Your Story? (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Transformational questions for personal and collective change. \nIn this time of global reckoning\, revolution\, and reinvention\, authors Rebecca Walker and Lily Diamond invite you to excavate the narratives that have shaped your life and write a new\, fulfilling story for the future. Consisting of 150+ questions—designed to be answered in as little as five minutes or as long as a lifetime—What’s Your Story?: A Journal for Everyday Evolution is essential for anyone ready to begin living their most authentic\, creative\, and meaningful life. \n\nExplore by area of life: Each chapter invites you to explore a different part of life as you move through your day—from waking up and encountering your mind\, to being in relationship with your body\, other people\, nature\, and technology\, to reflecting on community\, identity\, and mortality.\nExplore by theme: Five themes\, color-coded throughout each chapter\, allow you to explore a particular focus from beginning to end: creativity and self-expression; self-care; activism; spirituality; and grief\, loss\, and the work of healing.\n\n“Finding the voice to know\, write\, and speak your story can mean the difference between an existence of repressed silence and a life of joyful fulfillment\,” write the authors. “Our stories have the power to limit or liberate us.” \nRebecca Walker is a best-selling author\, editor\, and cultural critic who has contributed to the global conversation about race\, gender\, culture\, and power for over two decades. She has spoken at over four hundred universities\, conferences\, literary festivals\, and corporate campuses around the world\, and is a co-founder of the Third Wave Fund\, an organization that supports women and transgender youth working for social justice. Rebecca has won many awards\, and was named by Time magazine as one of the most influential leaders of her generation. She lives in Los Angeles. Learn more at rebeccawalker.com. \nLily Diamond is a writer\, educator\, and advocate working to democratize wellness through storytelling\, accessible practices for inner and outer nourishment\, and revolutionary acts of self-care in relationship to our earth and human communities. Lily is author of bestselling memoir-cookbook Kale & Caramel: Recipes for Body\, Heart\, and Table\, and her work has been featured in the New York Times\, VICE\, Healthyish\, Women’s Review of Books\, Refinery29\, and more. She lives in Maui\, Hawai‘i\, where she grew up\, on occupied native Hawaiian land. Learn more at lilydiamond.com. \n \nWhitney Leigh Morris is a Small Space Lifestyle Consultant based in Venice\, California. A firm believer that you don’t need to “live large” to live beautifully\, Morris uses her blog and Instagram account to share tips and ideas geared towards helping individuals\, couples\, and families live comfortably\, contentedly\, and less wastefully in compact quarters. Morris also shares her experiences and advice via a diverse array of editorial outlets and speaking engagements\, and via her mini video series\, Tiny Takeaways. She is the author of the book\, Small Space Style: Because You Don’t Need to Live Large to Live Beautifully. Morris is an engaged member of the Venice community\, is on the Board of The Rightway Foundation\, and was named a Wall Street Journal Woman of Note. She lives at the Cottage with her husband\, their child\, and two rescue beagles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-walker-and-lily-diamond-with-whitney-leigh-morris-whats-your-story-virtual-event/
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