Category: Year

Every Day We Live Is the Future: Surviving in a City of Disasters

March 2020 Book Link: Every Day We Live Is the Future: Surviving in a City of Disasters by Douglas Haynes Speaker: Douglas Haynes Resources

The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir

September 2020 Book: The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui Speaker: Dr. Victor Jew Resources

Discussion of Revolution is My Name

October 2020 Book: Revolution Is My Name: An Egyptian Woman’s Diary from Eighteen Days in Tahrir by Mona Prince, Samia Mehrez Speaker: Professor Nevine El Nossery Resources:

Honoring Life and Death in Balinese Culture

March 2021 Film: Ngaben: Emotion and Restraint in a Balinese Heart (2019) Speaker: Ni Luh Gede Sri Pratiwi Resources:

Russia-Ukraine: Perspectives from the East, West, and Global South

April 2022 Speaker: Rachel Oswald, Pulitzer Center Journalist

Using Persepolis to Teach About the Middle East

February 2021 Film: Persepolis (2008) Speaker: Professor Roozbeh Shirazi , University of Minnesota

Understanding Windrush and the Black Caribbean Diaspora in the U.K.

This Event was Not Recorded, Sorry! January 2021 Film: The Unwanted – The Secret Windrush Files Speaker: Professor Joan Anim-Addo, Goldsmiths, University of London Resources:

Social Justice: Writing For, Writing Back

November 2021 Book: The Lines We Cross Speaker: Randa Abdel-Fattah Resources:

Go Big Read Book Discussion

This Event was Not Recorded, Sorry! October 2021 Book: Transcendent Kingdom Speaker: Carmen Pitz Resources:

Using Literature to Explore SDG 4: Quality Education

September 2021 Books: Malala’s Magic Pencil by Malala Yousafzai; Serafina’s Promise by Ann E Burg; The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare Speaker: Dr. Elisheva Cohen, Indiana University Resources: