General Public

In this conversation, Professors Kumar and Jacobson examine how historians and literary studies scholars write about the present and for a public audience. Using Amitava Kumar’s Every Day I Write the Book (2020) and Matt Jacobson’s The Historian’s Eye: Photography, History and the American Present (2019), we will engage the various practices, politics and aesthetics of writing publicly and against critical moments like these.
Co-hosted by Public Humanities and The Program in Ethnicity, Race, & Migration
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Chris Newfield, University of California at Santa Barbara
http://www.english.ucsb.edu/people/newfield-christopher

Acclaimed author Emily Bernard will give a talk & reading, “Writing Race in America: Black is the Body” @ the Wilson Branch of the New Haven Free Public Library, 303 Washington avenue, New Haven.

Jacob Padron and Marc Robinson

John Wargo is the Tweedy-Ordway Professor of Environmental Health and Political Science at Yale University and the Chair of the Yale College Environmental Studies Major and Program. https://environment.yale.edu/profile/wargo/