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SUMMARY:Community Roundtable: Miss Chinatown
DESCRIPTION:Join the CHSA Community for a roundtable discussion on topics that impact our community on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month! Our goal is to keep the community united during the time apart through our online\, roundtable discussions. We will be hosting online roundtables every-other-week with different topics to engage with the CHSA community. \n\n\nHere is our upcoming schedule! Feel free to join all topics* of interest to you: \n\nJanuary 13th-Miss Chinatown. A discussion about memories of the Miss Chinatown pageant in preparation for the Chinese New Year celebration.\n\nInterested in joining? Click here to register! \nPlease note: this is an interactive event. We encourage everyone to check that their microphones and cameras are working so that they can engage in the discussion. Space is limited to encourage participation among attendees. \n*Topics and discussion dates are subject to change depending on current events and interest.
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SUMMARY:Robert Jones Jr. - The Prophets (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Isaiah was Samuel’s and Samuel was Isaiah’s. That was the way it was since the beginning\, and the way it was to be until the end. In the barn they tended to the animals\, but also to each other\, transforming the hollowed-out shed into a place of human refuge\, a source of intimacy and hope in a world ruled by vicious masters. But when an older man—a fellow slave—seeks to gain favor by preaching the master’s gospel on the plantation\, the enslaved begin to turn on their own. Isaiah and Samuel’s love\, which was once so simple\, is seen as sinful and a clear danger to the plantation’s harmony. \nWith a lyricism reminiscent of Toni Morrison\, Robert Jones\, Jr. fiercely summons the voices of slaver and enslaved alike\, from Isaiah and Samuel to the calculating slave master to the long line of women that surround them\, women who have carried the soul of the plantation on their shoulders. As tensions build and the weight of centuries—of ancestors and future generations to come—culminates in a climactic reckoning\, The Prophets masterfully reveals the pain and suffering of inheritance\, but is also shot through with hope\, beauty\, and truth\, portraying the enormous\, heroic power of love. \nRobert Jones\, Jr. was born and raised in New York City. He received his BFA in creative writing with honors and MFA in fiction from Brooklyn College. He has written for numerous publications\, including The New York Times\, Essence\, OkayAfrica\, The Feminist Wire\, and The Grio. He is the creator of the social justice social media community Son of Baldwin. Jones was recently featured in T Magazine‘s cover story\, “Black Male Writers of Our Time.” The Prophets is his debut novel.
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Berkeley Arts & Letters presents David P. Barash with David Livingstone Smith / Threats: Intimidation and Its Discontents
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and Berkeley Arts & Letters are very pleased to host a virtual event with David P. Barash for his new book Threats: Intimidation and Its Dicontents. He’ll be in conversation with David Livingstone Smith (On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It). \nFree and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order Threats here. We’re offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nFrom hurricanes and avalanches to diseases and car crashes\, threats are everywhere. Beyond objective threats like these\, there are also subjective ones: situations in which individuals threaten each other or feel threatened by society. Animals\, too\, make substantial use of threats. Evolution manipulates threats like these in surprising ways\, leading us to question the ethics of honest versus dishonest communication. Rarely acknowledged–and yet crucially important–is the fact that humans\, animals\, and even plants don’t only employ threats\, they often respond with counter-threats that ultimately make things worse. By exploring the dynamic of threat and counter-threat\, this book expands on many fraught human situations\, including the fear of death\, of strangers\, and of “the other.” Each of these leads to unique challenges\, such as the specter of eternal damnation\, the murderous culture of guns and capital punishment\, and the emergence of right-wing nationalist populism. Most worrisome is the illusory security of deterrence\, the idea that we can use the threat of nuclear war to prevent nuclear war! \nThreats are so widespread that we often don’t realize how deeply they are ingrained in our minds or how profoundly and counter-productively they operate. Animals\, humans\, societies\, and even countries internalize threats\, behind which lie a myriad of intriguing questions: How do we know when to take a threat seriously? When do threats make things worse? Can they make things better? What can we do to use them wisely rather than destructively? In a comprehensive exploration into questions like these\, noted scientist David P. Barash explains some of the most important characteristics of life as we know it. \nDavid P. Barash is an evolutionary biologist and professor of psychology emeritus at the University of Washington. He’s written more than 250 peer-reviewed scientific articles on human and animal behavior\, and has written\, co-authored and edited 39 books\, most recently Threats: intimidation and its discontents\, which was just published on Oct. 1 by Oxford University Press. \nDavid Livingstone Smith is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New England in Biddeford\, Maine. He has written or edited nine books\, including Less Than Human: Why We Demean\, Enslave and Exterminate Others (St. Martin’s Press\, 2011)\, which won the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf award for nonfiction. His work has been translated into seven languages. David is an interdisciplinary scholar\, whose publications are cited not only by other philosophers\, but also by historians\, legal scholars\, psychologists\, and anthropologists. He has been featured in several prime-time television documentaries\, is often interviewed and cited in the national and international media\, and was a guest at the 2012 G20 economic summit\, where he spoke about dehumanization and mass violence. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
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SUMMARY:Madeleine Watts
DESCRIPTION:Madeleine Watts discusses her highly anticipated debut novel\, The Inland Sea (Catapult). \n“Full of heart and disquiet\, astute and precise\, almost savage in its eloquence\, illuminated about what it feels like to love\, to be left\, to want more.” —Leslie Jamison\, author of The Empathy Exams \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. REGISTER HERE. \nAbout The Inland Sea\nDrifting after her final year in college\, a young writer begins working part-time as an emergency dispatch operator in Sydney. Over the course of an eight-hour shift\, she is dropped into hundreds of crises\, hearing only pieces of each. Callers report car accidents and violent spouses and homes caught up in flame. \nThe work becomes monotonous: answer\, transfer\, repeat. And yet the stress of listening to far-off disasters seeps into her personal life\, and she begins walking home with keys in hand\, ready to fight off men disappointed by what they find in neighboring bars. During her free time\, she gets black-out drunk\, hooks up with strangers\, and navigates an affair with an ex-lover whose girlfriend is in their circle of friends. \nTwo centuries earlier\, her great-great-great-great-grandfather–the British explorer John Oxley–traversed the wilderness of Australia in search of water. Oxley never found the inland sea\, but the myth was taken up by other men\, and over the years\, search parties walked out into the desert\, dying as they tried to find it. \nInterweaving a woman’s self-destructive unraveling with the gradual worsening of the climate crisis\, The Inland Sea is charged with unflinching insight into our age of anxiety. At a time when wildfires have swept an entire continent\, this novel asks what refuge and comfort looks like in a constant state of emergency. \nAbout Madeleine Watts\nMadeleine Watts grew up in Sydney\, Australia and currently lives in New York. She has an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University\, and her fiction has been published in The White Review and The Lifted Brow. Her novella\, Afraid of Waking It was awarded the Griffith Review Novella Prize. Her non-fiction has appeared in The Believer\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, and Literary Hub. The Inland Sea is her first novel.
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