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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Figuring Korean Futures
DESCRIPTION:Book Talk: Figuring Korean Futures: Children’s Literature in Modern Korea \nApril 26 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 180 Doe Library \nSpeaker: Dafna Zur\, Stanford University\nModerator: Steven Lee\, UC Berkeley \nFiguring Korean Futures is the story of the emergence and development of writing for children in modern Korea. Starting in the 1920s\, a narrator-adult voice began to speak directly to a child-reader. This child audience was perceived as unique because of a new concept: the child-heart\, the perception that the child’s body and mind were transparent and knowable\, and that they rested on the threshold of culture. This privileged location enabled writers and illustrators\, educators and psychologists\, intellectual elite and laypersons to envision the child as a powerful antidote to the present and as an uplifting metaphor of colonial Korea’s future. \nReading children’s periodicals against the political\, educational\, and psychological discourses of their time\, Dafna Zur argues that the figure of the child was particularly favorable to the project of modernity and nation-building\, as well as to the colonial and postcolonial projects of socialization and nationalization. She demonstrates the ways in which Korean children’s literature builds on a trajectory that begins with the child as an organic part of nature\, and ends\, in the post-colonial era\, with the child as the primary agent of control of nature. Figuring Korean Futures reveals the complex ways in which the figure of the child became a driving force of nostalgia that stood in for future aspirations for the individual\, family\, class\, and nation. \nABOUT THE SPEAKER \nDafna Zur is Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Stanford University. She teaches courses on Korean literature\, popular culture\, cinema\, and popular culture. Her book\, Figuring Korean Futures: Children’s Literature in Modern Korea (Stanford University Press\, 2017)\, traces the affective investments and coded aspirations made possible by children’s literature in colonial and postcolonial Korea. She has published articles on North Korean science fiction\, the Korean War in North and South Korean children’s literature\, childhood in cinema\, and Korean popular culture. Her translations have been published in wordwithoutborders.org\, The Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean Short Stories\, and the Asia Literary Review. \nDafna Zur received her PhD and MA in Asian Studies from the University of British Columbia\, and a BA from Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Stevenson Poetry Night at the SHPL
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening celebrating the spoken word and the works of Robert Louis Stevenson! The evening will feature an open mic for aspiring poets and poetry lovers!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stevenson-poetry-night-at-the-shpl/
LOCATION:Saint Helena Public Library\, 1492 Library Lane\, Saint Helena\, 94574
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:The Black Aesthetic\, in performance and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:“Our intention is to offer constructive speculation; our earnest hope to take up the love labor of the Black canons that laid these foundations in the past and provide guidance for the future.”\n— Zoé Samudzi\, Introduction to The Black Aesthetic Season II \nJoin us for an evening of readings\, performances\, and conversations with The Black Aesthetic. This group of writers and artists started their work together around a series of film screenings\, in the space at E. M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore in downtown Oakland. Their first publication\, The Black Aesthetic Season One: Black Women in Film\, emerged out of the dialogue that started to happen around their viewing of undeniable classics of independent Black cinema\, works that were met with acclaim when released\, and then became hard-to-find rareties. That publication struck a nerve\, and quickly sold out. Their follow-up\, The Black Aesthetic Season II\, just appeared this Spring 2018\, and it’s an even more extensive assembly of original writings and photo-works in response to a new series of films (100 Boyfriends Mixtape by Brontez Purnell\, Breathless by Anaiis Cisco\, Day by Day and Man Who Feared by Jehnovah Carlisle\, I gave myself space to go back by Yetunde Olagbaju\, Good White People by Jarrod Willing-Cann & Erick Stoll\, Short Films by Summer Mason\, Lucid Noon\, Sunset Blush by Alli Logout).  We’re devoting an evening to the artists who initiated these crucial conversations. \nJamal Batts is a doctoral student in the Department of African American Studies at UC Berkeley\, with a Designated Emphasis in Gender\, Women\, and Sexuality Studies. His work considers representations of morbidity\, death\, and disease in black and queer performance and visual culture. \nRyanaustin Dennis Founding member of The Black Aesthetic\, Ryanaustin Dennis is an Oakland based curator/artist/writer. His practice is concerned with how 20th and 21st century experimental performance\, film\, and writing histories are shaped by the metaphysics of blackness. He has done curatorial work for E.M. Wolfman Bookstore and is a Southern Exposure Curatorial Council Fellow. He is currently working on a manuscript How to Bend a Nigger. \nMalika “Ra” Imhotep is a black feminist writer/root worker from Atlanta\, GA currently pursuing a doctoral degree in African American and African Diaspora Studies at the University of California\, Berkeley.  Her thinking engages black femme performance aesthetics and cultural production throughout the Black Diaspora. Her creative praxis is invested in a textual and performative enjoyment of undisciplined movement\, the historical present\, black obscenities\, black spiritual practices and other blackityblk happenings. \nZoé Samudzi is a writer whose work has appeared in a number of spaces including The New Inquiry\, Warscapes\, Truthout\, ROAR Magazine\, Teen Vogue\, and Bitch Media\, among others. She is presently a Sociology PhD student at the University of California\, San Francisco in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Her academic work includes biomedicalization theory\, structural productions of race and gender\, and transgender health. www.zoesamudzi.com \nLeila Weefur lives and works in Oakland\, CA. Weefur received her MFA from Mills College in 2016. She uses video and printmaking to investigate the phenomenology of Blackness. With materials and visual gestures that access the tactile memory she explores the abject\, the sensual and the nuance found in the social interactions and language with which our bodies have to negotiate space. She is a recipient of the Hung Liu award\, the Murphy & Cadogan award\, and recently completed an artist fellowship at Kala Art Institute. Weefur has exhibited her work in local and national galleries including Southern Exposure and SOMArts Gallery in San Francisco\, Betti Ono in Oakland\, and Smack Mellon in Brooklyn\, New York. She is the Audio and Video Editor in Chief at Art Practical. www.leilaweefur.com \nFrom their website: “The Black Aesthetic is a creative organization\, whose mission is to curate and assemble both a collective and distinct understanding of Black visual culture. We pose the question: What is the Black aesthetic sensibility and what does it look like to you? \n“By working with artists\, writers\, filmmakers\, and designers. We cultivate work that asks our audience to consider their relationship to Black art. Based in Oakland\, we are invested in developing a community who will participate and engage with our mission. When you support The Black Aesthetic\, you are actively supporting a network of Black Artists. Through film screenings\, publications\, and product development we want to add to a growing collection of artistic visions that are grounded in place\, body\, lived-experience\, and are responsive to its respective environment.” More here. \nPhoto: Lance Yamamoto\, East Bay Express.\nFront\, left-right: Zoé Samudzi\, Leila Weefur\, Malika “Ra” Imhotep. Back\, left-right: Jamal Batts\, Ryanaustin Dennis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n• The Black Aesthetic \n• Oakland’s Black Artists Make Space for Themselves | East Bay Express \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-black-aesthetic-in-performance-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Dalachinsky\, Otomo\, Lazzara + Swindell at Alley Cat
DESCRIPTION:Readings by:\n\nSteve Dalachinsky\n\n\nYuko Otomo\nMarina Lazzara\n\n\nTate Swindell
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dalachinsky-otomo-lazzara-swindell-at-alley-cat/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Yang Huang
DESCRIPTION:Yang Huang reads from her short story collection\, My Old Faithful\, winner of the 2017 Juniper Prize. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShowing both the drama of familial intimacy and the ups and downs of the everyday\, My Old Faithful introduces readers to a close-knit Chinese family. These ten interconnected short stories\, which take place in China and the United States over a thirty-year period\, merge to paint a nuanced portrait of family life\, full of pain\, surprises\, and subtle acts of courage. Richly textured narratives from the mother\, the father\, the son\, and the daughters play out against the backdrop of China’s social and economic change. \nWith quiet humor and sharp insight into the ordinary\, Yang Huang writes of a father who spanks his son out of love\, a brother who betrays his sister\, and a woman who returns to China after many years to find her country changed in ways both expected and startling. \nYang Huang grew up in China’s Jiangsu province and participated in the 1989 student uprisings. Her debut novel\, Living Treasures\, won the Nautilus Book Award silver medal in fiction\, and her essay and short stories have appeared in The Margins\, Eleven Eleven\, Asian Pacific American Journal\, The Evansville Review\, Futures\, Porcupine Literary Arts Magazine\, and Nuvein. She lives in the Bay Area and works for UC Berkeley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yang-huang/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Richard Power
DESCRIPTION:Richard Powers discusses his new novel\, The Overstory. \n\nPraise for Richard Powers \n\n“This book is beyond special. Richard Powers manages to turn trees into vivid and engaging characters\, something that indigenous people have done for eons but that modern literature has rarely if ever even attempted. It’s not just a completely absorbing\, even overwhelming book; it’s a kind of breakthrough in the ways we think about and understand the world around us\, at a moment when that is desperately needed.” — Bill McKibben \n\n“Powers is prodigiously talented\, he writes lyrical prose\, has a seductive sense of wonder and is an acute observer of social life.” — Jim Holt\, The New York Times Book Review \n\n“Part of the fun of reading [Powers] is to see how he wriggles out of his own snares. But a greater thrill is to join with him in untangling the most urgent and confounding puzzles of our age.” — Nathaniel Rich\, The New York Review of Books \n\nAbout The Overstory \n\n\nAn Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky\, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits\, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself\, dies\, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. These four\, and five other strangers—each summoned in different ways by trees—are brought together in a last and violent stand to save the continent’s few remaining acres of virgin forest. \n  \nIn his twelfth novel\, National Book Award winner Richard Powers delivers a sweeping\, impassioned novel of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of—and paean to—the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds\, The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond\, exploring the essential conflict on this planet: the one taking place between humans and nonhumans. There is a world alongside ours—vast\, slow\, interconnected\, resourceful\, magnificently inventive\, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe. \n  \nThe Overstory is a book for all readers who despair of humanity’s self-imposed separation from the rest of creation and who hope for the transformative\, regenerating possibility of a homecoming. If the trees of this earth could speak\, what would they tell us? “Listen. There’s something you need to hear.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/richard-power/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kai Carlson-Wee / Rail
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a launch for Kai Carlson-Wee‘s first full-length poetry collection\, Rail. More info to come soon — save the date\, and join us! \nSet against a landscape of rail yards and skate parks\, Kai Carlson-Wee’s debut collection captures a spiritual journey of wanderlust\, depression\, brotherhood\, and survival. These poems–a “verse novella” in documentary form–build momentum as they travel across the stark landscapes of the American West: hopping trains through dusty prairie towns\, swapping stories with mystics and outlaws\, skirting the edges of mountains and ridges\, heading ever westward to find meaning in the remnants of a ruined Romantic ideal. Part cowboy poet\, part prophet\, Carlson-Wee finds beauty in the grit and kinship among strangers along the road. \n  \n— \nKai Carlson-Wee is the author of Rail (BOA\, 2018). He has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, and his work has appeared in Ploughshares\, Best New Poets\, TriQuarterly\, Gulf Coast\, and The Missouri Review\, which awarded him the 2013 Editor’s Prize. His photography has been featured in Narrative Magazine and his poetry film\, Riding the Highline\, received jury awards at the 2015 Napa Valley Film Festival and the 2016 Arizona International Film Festival. With his brother Anders\, he has co-authored two chapbooks\, Mercy Songs (Diode Editions) and Two-Headed Boy (Organic Weapon Arts)\, winner of the 2015 Blair Prize. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow\, he lives in San Francisco and is a lecturer at Stanford University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kai-carlson-wee-rail/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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