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SUMMARY:Senator Mazie Hirono with Jan Yanehiro
DESCRIPTION:THIS IS AN ONLINE EVENT.  \nNew leaders are driving some of the biggest political shifts in our nation’s history as we speak. But do you know their stories? \nOnline this summer\, Kepler’s is excited to host a powerhouse in the Senate whose autobiography embodies a nation in transformation. On June 29\, Hawaiian Senator Mazie Hirono joins in conversation with acclaimed Bay Area journalist Jan Yanehiro for her memoir\, Heart of Fire. \nHeart of Fire marks Hirono’s journey from soft-spoken immigrant daughter to one of the leading voices for progressive causes today. This powerful memoir\, among the most anticipated of 2021\, finds the threads of Hirono’s determination in the strength and example of the Senator’s late mother. Laura Hirono was born in Waipahu\, Hawaii\, and immigrated to Japan. There she gave birth to three children\, and after years of struggle she chose despite incredible hurdles to leave an abusive marriage— returning to Hawaii to give her three children a better life\, all when Senator Hirono was just 7 years old. Mazie\, then called Keiko\, was raised in paradise and in relative poverty by a woman whose love was the shining example of courage. \nBehind the incredible voice that has garnered headlines for her work in immigration\, poverty\, racial equality and justice\, here is the captivating story of what makes the political personal for one transformative leader. \nFrom Waipahu to her role as the first Asian American woman and first immigrant woman on the Senate Floor\, Senator Hirono’s story rings with uniquely American beauty. It is a memoir that will inspire and move you\, no matter your politics. \nHear the Senator in person and set your heart on fire with Kepler’s this summer. \nWebinar space is limited\, so register early! Please consider joining with a book to support programs like this one.
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SUMMARY:Odd Salon + Context Travel: Doctors\, Diseases\, and Deities
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an exploration of the art\, science\, and archaeology of medicine in Ancient Rome. This conversation examines a remarkable discovery in Rimini\, Italy that has given us an extraordinary amount of information concerning medicine and medical technology in ancient Rome. The “Domus del Chirurgo\,” (“House of the Surgeon”) is a treasure trove of artifacts that tell us a great deal about the practice of medicine almost 2000 years ago. We will then go on to discuss the Antonine Plague of the 2nd century\, one of the most severe pandemic events the Roman world ever confronted.\n\n\n\nThrough a combination of primary sources\, archaeological discoveries\, and modern science\, Sarah will examine the pathology of the plague as well as its impact on the economic\, political\, and religious life of the Roman Empire. What exactly was the “Antonine Plague?” Was it a factor in the destabilization of the Empire in the 3rd century? And most importantly\, what lessons can we learn about how to react to population-impacting medical crises today? \nSarah Yeomans is an archaeologist specializing in the Imperial period of the Roman Empire with a particular emphasis on ancient science and religion. Currently pursuing her doctorate at the University of Southern California\, she is adjunct faculty at both St. Mary’s College of Maryland and West Virginia University. A native Californian\, Sarah holds an M.A. in Archaeology from the University of Sheffield\, England\, and an M.A. in Art History from the University of Southern California. Her current research involves ancient Roman medicine and the impact of pandemic events on Roman society. She is generally happiest when covered in dirt\, roaming archaeological sites somewhere in the Mediterranean region but particularly in Rome\, where she lived for six years. \nTuesday\, June 29\nDOCTORS\, DISEASES\, AND DEITIES: ILLNESS AND INJURY IN ANCIENT ROME WITH SARAH YEOMANS\nOnline\, via Zoom\nThis is part one of our four part collaboration with Context Travel\, as a special Members & Fellows series. These private events are included for free for all current Odd Salon Members\, Fellows. To join us: New members may join by purchasing either the four part series pass for $125\, or purchase tickets here to join the membership and reserve a spot for this seminar only for our standard annual membership cost of $100. \n\nABOUT CONTEXT TRAVEL: Context Learning is a cultural education provider\, connecting global scholars with lifelong learners. Founded in Rome in 2003\, Context started as a tour operator for travelers seeking off-the-beaten-path experiences in the world’s cultural capitals\, growing quickly to 20\,000 tours a year across 70+ destinations. After COVID-19 halted travel operations\, Context continued to expand\, launching live\, scholar-led seminars and courses presented online. What emerged was a thriving community of experts and learners keen to continue exploring\, growing\, and philosophizing\, regardless of their location. To date we’ve covered thousands of topics ranging from Tuscany to Timbuktu\, Caravaggio to Frida Kahlo\, Ancient Rome to Brexit. Context strives to be the cultural center for lifelong learning\, at-home\, on the ground\, and everywhere in between.   \nIf you are not already familiar with the many wonders of Context Travel\, we’d heartily encourage you to go forth and explore their virtual and real-world exploration offerings \n\n+ GOOGLE CALENDAR+ ICAL EXPORT
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SUMMARY:Camille Roy in conversation with Eileen Myles
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the book release of Camille Roy’s new short fiction collection \nHoney Mine \npublished by Nightboat Books \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. Links to be posted soon. \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book. Links to be posted soon. \n———– \nHoney Mine unfolds as both excavation and romp\, an adventure story that ushers readers into a lesbian writer’s coming of age through disorienting\, unsparing\, and exhilarating encounters with sex\, gender\, and distinctly American realities of race and class. From childhood in Chicago’s South Side to youth in the lesbian underground\, Roy’s politics find joyful and transgressive expression in the liberatory potential of subculture. In these new\, uncollected\, and out-of-print fictions by a master of New Narrative\, find a record of survival and thriving under conditions of danger. \nCamille Roy’s most recent book is ​Sherwood Forest​\, from Futurepoem. Other books include ​Cheap Speech​\, a play from Leroy Chapbooks\, and ​Craquer​\, a fictional autobiography from 2nd Story Books\, as well as ​Swarm​ (fiction\, from Black Star Series). She co-edited ​Biting The Error: Writers Explore Narrative​ (Coach House 2005\, re-issued 2010). Earlier books include ​The Rosy Medallions​ (poetry and prose\, from Kelsey St. Press) and ​Cold Heaven​ (plays\, from Leslie Scalapino’s O Books). Recent work has been published in Amerarcana and Open Space (SFMoma blog). \nEileen Myles is an acclaimed poet and writer who has published over twenty works of fiction\, poetry\, nonfiction\, and libretto. Their prizes and awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Warhol/Creative Capital grant\, an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, and a poetry award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. \nAdvance Praise for Honey Mine \n\n“It’s poetry stretched over mountains of prose\, mythic and dirty like a genius’s sex diary told outta the side of their mouth in a torn bathrobe with a topical map on the back that includes genitals\, wisdom & lore. It’s held together by love – lost & known. And the healing power of silence. Honey Mine is one hell of a unique book. It’s a study. It disrupts the category\, be it literature\, fiction\, the essay or the lesbian. It says: whatever you have the nerve to do\, I will also do. Honey Mine is an inspirational work.” -Eileen Myles \n\n\n“This is a huge book; it belongs in the canon of the best queer writers. To read Honey Mine is to be inhabited by the largesse of the word ‘lesbian\,’ body\, sex\, sexuality. And by a lesbian aesthetic of human relations\, bookended by the author’s magnificent enduring love with her late partner Angie. These fictions\, in resisting…before the theorems arrive… teleological primness\, parade language nimble enough to absorb class\, cities\, memory\, grief\, shame\, without sacrificing a cornucopia of pleasures. Like a tarte tatin\, Honey Mine spills over with deliciousness. My tactic vis a vis narrative\, says Camille Roy\, is really just to bring abandonment into the relationship. She succeeds marvelously.” -Gail Scott \n\n\n“From Camille Roy’s work\, I have learned literal worlds; frog-kicked through summers in musty\, abandoned cabins\, tread the concrete divisions of Chicago’s South Side. In this expansive\, formally promiscuous collection\, ‘stories don’t work.’ Fiction and fantasy function not as creative effacements of the brute facts of queer life\, but as the very means by which that life innovates itself—as relational\, as fickle\, as an ongoing ‘survival of self.’ Gauntlet of girlhood ideology\, love letter peeled open like a garlic clove. Honey Mine takes apart the toolbox of narrative mechanisms; the aberrant languages and intimacies we use to scrape\, mould and manipulate one another. Never bowing to romanticism and yet unmistakable in its communion\, this is a book that has\, in many ways\, seeded and re-made me. I am so grateful for it.” \n-Trisha Low
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Rivka Galchen and Paul La Farge
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON TUESDAY\, JUNE 29 AT 6PM PT WHEN RIVKA GALCHEN IS JOINED BY PAUL LA FARGE TO DISCUSS HER LATEST NOVEL\, EVERYONE KNOWS YOUR MOTHER IS A WITCH\, ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/87992045770\nOr One tap mobile :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,87992045770#  or +12532158782\,\,87992045770#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcGethSO7d \nPraise for Rivka Galchen\n“Skillful\, imaginative\, often funny . . . In that grand tradition of American innovators\, perhaps Ms. Galchen’s greatest artistic creation is herself.” — Adam Langer\, The New York Times Book Review \n“To read Rivka Galchen is to enter a wonderland where the bizarre and the mundane march in unlikely lockstep.” —Michael Lindgren\, The Washington Post \nAbout Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch\nThe startling\, witty\, highly anticipated second novel from the critically acclaimed author of Atmospheric Disturbances \nThe story begins in 1618\, in the German duchy of Württemberg. Plague is spreading. The Thirty Years’ War has begun\, and fear and suspicion are in the air throughout the Holy Roman Empire. In the small town of Leonberg\, Katharina Kepler is accused of being a witch. \nKatharina is an illiterate widow\, known by her neighbors for her herbal remedies and the success of her children\, including her eldest\, Johannes\, who is the Imperial Mathematician and renowned author of the laws of planetary motion. It’s enough to make anyone jealous\, and Katharina has done herself no favors by being out and about and in everyone’s business. So when the deranged and insipid Ursula Reinbold (or as Katharina calls her\, the Werewolf) accuses Katherina of offering her a bitter\, witchy drink that has made her ill\, Katharina is in trouble. Her scientist son must turn his attention from the music of the spheres to the job of defending his mother. Facing the threat of financial ruin\, torture\, and even execution\, Katharina tells her side of the story to her friend and next-door neighbor Simon\, a reclusive widower imperiled by his own secrets. \nDrawing on real historical documents but infused with the intensity of imagination\, sly humor\, and intellectual fire for which Rivka Galchen is known\, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch will both provoke and entertain. The story of how a community becomes implicated in collective aggression and hysterical fear is a tale for our time. Galchen’s bold new novel touchingly illuminates a society and a family undone by superstition\, the state\, and the mortal convulsions of history.
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