Girlhood as a Vessel of Grief: A Poetry Reading and Conversation

AZ, United States

What does it mean to grieve girlhood? To remember a life not long ago lived? The poems in Susan Nguyen’s forthcoming collection, Dear Diaspora, are equal parts joy and grief, response and remembrance. Centering on a speaker named Suzi, the collection draws from the Vietnamese diaspora to unravel questions of identity, selfhood, and American adolescence. […]

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Pershing’s Chinese: Asylum Seekers amid Chinese Exclusion with Li Yang

AZ, United States

In 1917, Gen. John J. Pershing brought 527 Chinese refugees from Mexico. These men had attached themselves to the punitive expedition conducted by Gen. Pershing in pursuit of the Mexican revolutionary leader Francisco “Pancho” Villa from 1916 to 1917. When Pershing withdrew, aware that the lives of the Chinese who had served his troops were […]

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Building Community in a Digital World: A Conversation with Danielle Allen

AZ, United States

Social media and the internet have fundamentally changed the way we consume news and interact with each other. Conversations once held face-to-face may now be conducted online, and reach audiences in our own communities, our nation, and the world. How has social media shaped the way we build communities? How has the digital age affected social […]

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The Food of Arizona with Gregory McNamee

AZ, United States

Consider the taco, that favorite treat, a staple of Mexican and Mexican American cooking and an old standby on an Arizonan’s plate. The corn in the tortilla comes from Mexico, the cheese from the Sahara, the lettuce from Egypt, the onion from Syria, the tomatoes from South America, the chicken from Indochina, the beef from […]

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Not Racist or Anti-Racist? Talking About Race in America with Rowdy Duncan

AZ, United States

What is the difference between race and ethnicity? What does it mean to be anti-racist versus not racist? Understanding the history of race in America, and its impact on all of us is important. Race is not just a complex subject of study, but a lived experience that is unique to everyone. This means you […]

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The 1894 Lowell Expedition to Arizona with Kevin Schindler

AZ, United States

In 1894 an Easterner named Andrew Douglass explored Arizona Territory in search of an ideal site to establish an astronomical observatory for Bostonian Percival Lowell. Traveling by train and stagecoach, Douglass visited Tombstone, Tucson, Tempe, Prescott and Flagstaff. While making scientific observations at each locale, he experienced a variety of unforeseen episodes. This expedition is […]

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Coded Messages and Songs of the Underground Railroad with Dr. Tamika Sanders

AZ, United States

Communication and secrecy were key to the successful operation of the Underground Railroad. Safety was more important than quickness. Both fugitive slaves and members of the Underground Railroad learned to code and decode hidden messages, and to disguise signs to avoid capture. There were code names for routes and code numbers for towns. A quilt […]

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Lives of Arizonans from Memoirs and Fiction with Jim Turner

AZ, United States

Arizona pioneers tell their stories in diaries, letters, and memoirs. Martha Summerhayes’s beloved Vanished Arizona and Captain John Bourke’s On the Border with Crook, plus biographies of Hopi, Pima, and Tohono O’odham women describe their lives and feelings. But we’ll also look at fiction, including Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop, Zane Gray’s Riders […]

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Is Forgiveness Necessary, as Truth is, for Reconciliation?

Virtual AZ, United States

Friday, June 25, 2021 - 10:00 am to 12:00 pm (AZ) A VIRTUAL SEMINAR SPEAKER: Joe Campbell, Belfast Child Joe Campbell is the son of Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) Sergeant Joseph Campbell who was shot dead in February 1977 outside his police station in Cushendall, County Antrim, in Ireland. The RUC was the police force […]

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