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Fac Chat: Wed, Nov. 14, 1:00 p.m.
Join the Library and the IC for the next Fac Chat in the Intercultural Center! JCL's Michael Joseph Viola leads the chat, "Toward a Filipino/a Radical Tradition: Filipino/a American Activism — From Racialization to Radicalization."
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When Tacitus wrote a not-very-flattering little book about the...
When Tacitus wrote a not-very-flattering little book about the ancient Germans in 98 CE, at the height of the Roman Empire, he could not have foreseen that the Nazis would extol it as “a bible,” nor that Heinrich Himmler, the engineer of the Holocaust, would vow to resurrect Germany on its grounds.
She shows that sharing the mundane details of our...
She shows that sharing the mundane details of our lives–what we ate for lunch, where we went on vacation, who dropped in for a visit–didn’t begin with mobile devices and social media. People have used media to catalog and share their lives for several centuries.
This ground breaking work departs from existing definitions of...
This ground breaking work departs from existing definitions of power that focus on the actors’ evolving ability to exercise control in situations of calculable risk. It introduces the concept of ‘protean power’, which focuses on the actors’ agility as they adapt to situations of uncertainty.
From the deep-bred misogyny epitomized by GamerGate to the...
From the deep-bred misogyny epitomized by GamerGate to the endemic malice of abusive player communities, gamer culture has had serious real-world repercussions, ranging from death threats to sexist industry practices and racist condemnations.
The first full study of black female characters in speculative...
The first full study of black female characters in speculative film and television, Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before shows why heroines such as Lex in AVP and Zoë in Firefly are inspiring a generation of fans, just as Uhura did.
The house holds a central place in American mythology, as...
The house holds a central place in American mythology, as Marilyn Chandler demonstrates in a series of “house tours” through American novels, beginning with Thoreau’s Walden and ending with Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping.
Based on the premise that nature lies at the center of human...
Based on the premise that nature lies at the center of human existence, Davis takes readers on a compelling and, at times, wrenching journey from the Florida Keys to the Texas Rio Grande, along marshy shorelines and majestic estuarine bays, both beautiful and life-giving, though fated to exploitation by esuriant oil men and real-estate developers.
This book seeks to demonstrate how the unique ability of social...
This book seeks to demonstrate how the unique ability of social networks to share personal stories on a mass scale, connect like-minded individuals regardless of geography, and leverage the bandwagon effect of viral content contributed to a seismic shift in visibility and public opinion around the issue of marriage equality.
Nagle chronicles New York City’s four-hundred-year...
Nagle chronicles New York City’s four-hundred-year struggle with trash, and traces the city’s waste-management efforts from a time when filth overwhelmed the streets to the far more rigorous practices of today, when the Big Apple is as clean as it’s ever been.
She argues that the Gospel of Judas is not about a...
She argues that the Gospel of Judas is not about a “good” Judas, or even a “poor old” Judas. It is a gospel parody about a “demon” Judas written by a particular group of Gnostic Christians, the Sethians.
In The Tumbleweed Society, sociologist Allison Pugh examines...
In The Tumbleweed Society, sociologist Allison Pugh examines the broader impacts of job precariousness, on our approach to work, our notions of what counts as honorable behavior, and our relations with the people we love.
While exposing the failure of safety laws that leave millions...
While exposing the failure of safety laws that leave millions of workers without compensation and employers without any meaningful incentive to protect their workers, Karmel offers the reader some hope in the form of policy suggestions that may make American workers safer and employers more accountable
Beginning with an extraordinary chapter on the extinction of...
Beginning with an extraordinary chapter on the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon and the accompanying belligerent early view of nature’s inexhaustibility, Price then moves on to discuss the Audubon Society’s founding campaign in the 1890s against the extravagant use of stuffed birds to decorate women’s hats.
“What does it really mean to be a man? In Man Alive,...
“What does it really mean to be a man? In Man Alive, Thomas Page McBee attempts to answer that question by focusing on two of the men who most impacted his life–one, his otherwise ordinary father who abused him as a child, and the other, a mugger who threatened his life and then released him in an odd moment of mercy.
Even worse, she finds that these competing discourses are not...
Even worse, she finds that these competing discourses are not just relegated to the gaming world but are creating rifts within the culture at large, as witnessed by the direct links between the GamerGate movement and the recent rise of the alt-right during the last presidential election.
Based on more than a decade of research and work with...
Based on more than a decade of research and work with companies, they argue that a bright green future is only possible with dramatic innovation across multiple sectors at the same time. To achieve this, a broader ecosystem of players–including inventors, executives, customers, investors, activists, and governments–all must play a role
Exposing the historical origins of Citizens United and Hobby...
Exposing the historical origins of Citizens United and Hobby Lobby, Adam Winkler explains how those controversial Supreme Court decisions extending free speech and religious liberty to corporations were the capstone of a centuries-long struggle over corporate personhood and constitutional protections for business.
Scholars and policymakers have struggled to understand the...
Scholars and policymakers have struggled to understand the causes and dynamics that have made the far right so appealing to so many people–in other words, that have made the extreme more mainstream.
Through the Fair Food Program that they have developed, fought...
Through the Fair Food Program that they have developed, fought for, and implemented, these people have changed the lives of more than thirty thousand field workers. I Am Not a Tractor! offers a range of solutions to a problem that is rooted in our nation’s slave history and that is worsened by ongoing conflict over immigration.
Mary and the Art of Prayer crosses the boundaries that modern...
Mary and the Art of Prayer crosses the boundaries that modern scholars typically place between observation and experience, between the world of provable facts and the world of imagination, suggesting what it would have been like for medieval Christians to encounter Mary in prayer.
Last updated by Shannon Meaney-Ryer on November 12th, 2018