Past Event Category: Book Club
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Apr 5Book Launch: Humanizing Education for Immigrant and Refugee YouthOnline Link
We are thrilled to announce the recently published Humanizing Education for Immigrant and Refugee Youth and invite you to join us for a discussion about the newly released book! This important book offers strategies, models, and concrete ideas for better-serving newcomer immigrant and refugee youth in U.S. schools, with a focus on grades 6–12. The …
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Mar 30International Book Club: Mapping Abundance with Candace FujikaneOnline Link
Register Now Candace Fujikane is Professor of English at the University of Hawaiʻi and an activist in struggles for an independent and sustainable Hawai’i. Her acclaimed book Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future (2021) explores how Indigenous ancestral knowledges are now providing a foundation for movements against climate change, one based on mapping economies of abundance as opposed …
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Mar 8The Dawn of Everything Book Club: The Deep Past and the Political PresentOnline Link
Register Now Session 4: The Deep Past and the Political Present Recommended reading: The Dawn of Everything, Chapters 10-12. If our distant ancestors really did invent a wide variety of different political formations, why is it so difficult to imagine political alternatives in the present? In this final session, we will examine some of the key …
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Mar 1The Dawn of Everything Book Club: Cities, Scale, and Political Hierarchy
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Register Now Session 3: Cities, Scale, and Political Hierarchy Recommended reading: The Dawn of Everything, Chapters 8-9. It is often assumed that as societies become more dense and complex, top-down forms of governance inevitably emerge in order to maintain order. Drawing on evidence from Mesoamerica, Ukraine, China, and the Indus Valley, Graber & Wengrow argue that …
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Feb 22The Dawn of Everything Book Club: The Revolution that Never Happened?
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Register Now Session 2: The Revolution that Never Happened? Recommended reading: The Dawn of Everything, Chapters 3-7. Some 10,000 years ago, the first ‘Agricultural Revolution’ decisively and irreversibly changed the trajectory of humankind forever. Or did it? Graeber & Wengrow instead present an account of a partial and contingent process whereby farming practices were taken up …
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Feb 15The Dawn of Everything Book Club: Rethinking the Roots of Inequality
Register Now Session 1: Rethinking the Roots of Inequality Recommended reading: The Dawn of Everything, Chapters 1-2. What are the origins of social inequality? The story we all know is that humans used to live in small, egalitarian bands of hunter-gatherers until the invention of agriculture led to the formation of settlements, then cities, then states, …
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Oct 20Go Big Read Book Discussion: Transcendent KingdomRegister Join us for a Book Club event online to discuss the UW–Madison Go Big Read book selection: Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi. “Gifty is a PhD candidate in neuroscience studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin …
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May 18Global Partitions Series for K-12 Educators: Historical and Colonial Contexts and Southern AfricaClick here to register. Join us for the final lecture in The Global Partitions Series for K-12 educators titled Global Partitions: Self-determination in Southern Africa — The contending forces of division and unification from the colonial to post-colonial eras. On May 18, Heinz Klug, Evjue-Bascom Professor of Law and Sheldon B. Lubar Distinguished Research Chair, at …
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May 11Global Partitions Series for K-12 Educators: Brexit’s Impact Across the United KingdomClick here to register. Join us for the second of three lectures in The Global Partitions Series for K-12 educators. On May 11, Dr. Anna Oltman, Lecturer in Human Rights at University College, London, will present on Brexit and its larger populist impacts on Northern Ireland and across the United Kingdom. Dr. Oltman is a lecturer …
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May 6The Hmong Journey: Seeing Me in YouClick here to register. Join us for a book club with Ger Thao, author of the book The Hmong Journey: Hmoob Txoj Kev Taug. Ger Thao is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Education: Curriculum & Instruction Specialization at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Thao has taught for eight years as an elementary school teacher and …