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Recorded on YouTube on 10 November 2021. Join Noam Chomsky for a talk, then in conversation with E. Tammy Kim on the brutal realities laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic—and the urgent need for an alternative to capitalism. This was a Readings and Conversations event. This event was in partnership with Haymarket Books. https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.lannan.org/podcasts/taking-children-estes-211110.mp3 Duration: […]
Recorded on YouTube on 13 October 2021. Join Noam Chomsky for a talk, then in conversation with E. Tammy Kim on the brutal realities laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic—and the urgent need for an alternative to capitalism. This was a Readings and Conversations event. This event was in partnership with Haymarket Books. https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.lannan.org/podcasts/consequences-of-capitalism-211013.mp3 Duration: […]
Recorded on YouTube on 05 October 2021. The 2020 Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize was awarded to Angela Y. Davis for her lifetime achievements as a public intellectual advocating for racial, gender, and economic justice; to Mike Davis for his life's work as a public intellectual who encourages critical analysis of society in the service of […]
Recorded on YouTube on 20 October 2020. Masha Gessen is the author of eleven books and a staff writer for the New Yorker. In addition to Surviving Autocracy (2020), their recent books include The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (2017), which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction; The Brothers: The Road to […]
Recorded on YouTube on 13 August 2020. Yanis Varoufakis is a member of Greece’s parliament and leader of the Greek political party MeRA25, which belongs to the pan-European movement DiEM25. He spoke with Daniel Denvir. This was a Readings and Conversations event. https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.lannan.org/podcasts/varoufakis-200813-rc.mp3 In this episode, Yanis Varoufakis joined us from his home in Greece […]
Recorded by Mr. Heffernan remotely at his teaching office. James Heffernan, Professor Emeritus of English at Dartmouth College, has lectured extensively on James Joyce, particularly Ulysses, which he has covered in 24 lectures for the Teaching Company. His many articles include a close study of Molly’s monologue, and his books include studies of English Romantic […]
Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on December 4, 2019. Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney and assistant professor at Rutgers University. She has served as legal counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives, as a legal advocate for Palestinian refugee rights at the United Nations, and as the national […]
Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on November 13, 2019. Eve L. Ewing is a sociologist of education whose research is focused on racism, social inequality, and urban policy, and the impact of these forces on American public schools and the lives of young people. She is an assistant professor at […]
Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on October 30, 2019. Deborah Levy, a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, writes fiction, plays, and poetry. Her work has been staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company, broadcast on the BBC, and translated widely across the world. The author of highly praised novels, […]
Recorded at the Lannan Meeting House in Santa Fe, New Mexico on October 13, 2019. Natalie Scenters-Zapico is from the sister cities of El Paso, Texas, USA, and Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua, México. Her first book, The Verging Cities (Center for Literary Publishing 2015), won the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, Great Lakes Colleges Association’s New […]
In this episode, Boots Riley joined Robin D. G. Kelley in conversation.
Boots Riley joined Robin D. G. Kelley in conversation.
Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on May 1, 2019. Sebastian Barry is a novelist, poet, and playwright. His latest book, Days without End (2016), tells the story of Thomas McNulty, a 17-year-old fleeing the Great Famine in Ireland by enlisting in the U.S. Army in the 1850s. He is sent […]
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