Author + Talk : Looking Like the Enemy: Japanese Mexicans, the Mexican State, and U.S. Hegemony, 1897-1945 with Jerry Garcia Tuesday, May 16th 5:30-6:30 p.m. (small group discussion) 6:45-8:30 p.m. (Presentation, Q&A) Arizona Humanities - 1242 N. Central Ave. - Phoenix, AZ 85004 If you are interested in purchasing Dr. Garcia's book visit UA Press […]
Thursday, June 8, 2017 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. – Presentation and Q&A Free event! Light refreshments included. Arizona Humanities 1242 N. Central Ave - Phoenix, AZ 85004 Explore the life of renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist Edith Wharton. Dr. Rivers-Norton will discuss excerpts from “Edith Wharton: When Words First Spoke,” the fourth chapter of her latest […]
Nómada Temporal se desarrolla en siete países y más de 25 ciudades. Después de que su casa fuera robada por segunda ocasión, Luis decidió poner todo en un almacén y viajar un par de meses. Nunca pensó que el viaje se extendería por más de un año, conociendo gente fascinante, procesando el dolor de una […]
Not If We Learn from the Past... Whiskey’s for drinking, and water’s for fighting. The old quip about the West seems truer than ever today, as growth and climate change threaten our water supplies. The Colorado River is dwindling, rural wells are going dry, and rivers could vanish. But history shows that Arizonans can solve […]
Keeonna Harris & Saretta Morgan Literary Landscapes: A public reading and conversation with Keeonna Harris & Saretta Morgan. Join us for the evening as both women share new work at the intersections of incarceration, intimacy and indigenous erasure in the borderlands. Conversation and audience Q&A to follow. Literary Landscapes brings together emerging and renowned writers to […]
What is a body beside a person, a structure, the hull of a ship? Can there be a body of hope, of sorrow, of dreams, of poetry? And what of writing? How does it move us, help give shape to thought and experience? Join us as we explore The Written Body with poet Eloisa Amezcua, […]
Join us for an evening with Pulitzer Prize winner and MacArthur Genius Fellow Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of The Refugees (2017) and The Sympathizer (2015), as he interrogates the power of language and the relationship between citizenry and democracy. Audience Q&A and book signing to follow. Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer is a New York Times best seller and won […]
April 25, 2019 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM FOUND:RE Hotel 1100 N Central Ave Phoenix, AZ 85004 RSVP here Join us for an evening with former U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry collection Native Guard (2006), and Monument: Poems New and Selected (2018), as she interrogates the power of language […]
Join us as we delve into the latest chapter in the centuries-long struggle for Indigenous liberation. In this lecture, Nick Estes will discuss his latest work Our History is the Future. In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, […]
Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Arizona Humanities and the 9th anniversary of the Reading is Medicine Book Club with us! Join us for a thrilling discussion of Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology. Enjoy readings by two featured authors, Darcie Little Badger and Amber Blaeser-Wardzala from the book and immerse yourself in […]
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