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Li-Young Lee is the author of six books of poetry, most recently The Invention of the Darling. A collection of his new and selected mother poems, I Ask My Mother to Sing, is out this summer from Wesleyan University Press. He has received many honors for his writing including the 2024 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a Lannan Literary Award, a Whiting Award, the American Book Award, and more. He lives in Chicago. Find The Invention of the Darling here: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393867190 Find I Ask My Mother to Sing here: https://www.weslpress.org/9780819502032/i-ask-my-mother-to-sing/ As always, we'll also include the live Prompt Lines for responses to our weekly prompt. A Zoom link will be provided in the chat window during the show before that segment begins. For links to all the past episodes, visit: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/ This Week's Prompt: Write a poem about unrequited love for something other than a human. Next Week's Prompt: Write a poem with “self-portrait” in the title that features an odd bird. The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, then becomes an audio podcast. Find it on iTunes, Spotify, or anywhere else you get your podcasts.

  Last year in episode 186, we talked about Grove Street Cemetery's pioneering role as the first planned cemetery in the country. The design of Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven in the 1790s used several of the features that became standard, like family plots and established walkways.   Today, we're going to move the clock forward and discuss the rural cemetery movement of the 19th century with Cedar Hill Cemetery in Hartford as a signature example.   Established in 1864, Cedar Hill Cemetery encompasses 270 acres of landscaped woodlands, waterways, and memorial grounds. The urban oasis serves as a sanctuary for Connecticut history, impressive funerary art, and natural beauty. In this episode, Host Mary Donohue interviews Beverly Lucas, Director of the Cedar Hill Cemetery Foundation. The Foundation is the non-profit that raises money for the restoration of the monuments and also hosts many events and guided tours.  Be sure to follow the Cedar Hill Cemetery Foundation on Facebook and Instagram to find out about upcoming programs.   ----------------------------------------------------- Wesleyan Press book offer! Grating the Nutmeg has an exciting offer from Wesleyan University Press. Order the beautiful coffee table book Joseph Weidenmann, pioneer landscape architect by Rudi Favretti from their website and use the code Q301 to receive a 30% discount!      https://www.weslpress.org/9780819568472/jacob-weidenmann/   ------------------------------------------------------ Want to find out more about Connecticut's historic cemeteries? Listen to these Grating the Nutmeg episodes:   https://gratingthenutmeg.libsyn.com/186-new-havens-pioneering-grove-street-cemetery   https://gratingthenutmeg.libsyn.com/135-zinc-gravestones-bridgeports-monumental-bronze-company   https://gratingthenutmeg.libsyn.com/154-numbers-to-names-restoring-humanity-to-ct-valley-hospital-cemetery   https://gratingthenutmeg.libsyn.com/78-uncovering-african-and-native-american-lives-in-17th-18th-century-hartford   ------------------------------------------------------ We count on our sponsors, advertisers and most importantly our listeners for their support. Help us continue to tell the important stories from Connecticut's history by donating a fixed dollar amount monthly. It's easy to set up a monthly donation on the Connecticut Explored website at https://secure.qgiv.com/for/gratingthenutmeg/  We appreciate donations in any amount! Connecticut Explored magazine is a place where readers encounter the fascinating, and often untold, stories of our state's people, places, and events. Subscriptions include print + digital access. Subscribe to get your copy today in your mailbox or your inbox at https://www.ctexplored.org/ If you are looking for fun and interesting things to do around the state, our magazine and bi-monthly enewsletter will fill you in! Subscribe and sign up for our enewsletter at our website at https://www.ctexplored.org/   This episode of Grating the Nutmeg was produced by Mary Donohue and engineered by Patrick O'Sullivan at https://www.highwattagemedia.com/   Follow GTN on our socials-Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and BlueSky.   Follow executive producer Mary Donohue on Facebook and Instagram at WeHa Sidewalk Historian. Join us in two weeks for our next episode of Grating the Nutmeg, the podcast of Connecticut history. Thank you for listening!

This is John Drabinski and you're listening to Conversations in Atlantic Theory, a podcast dedicated to books and ideas generated from and about the Atlantic world. In collaboration with the Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, these conversations explore the cultural, political, and philosophical traditions of the Atlantic world, ranging from European critical theory to the black Atlantic to sites of indigenous resistance and self-articulation, as well as the complex geography of thinking between traditions, inside traditions, and from positions of insurgency, critique, and counternarrative.Today's discussion is with Benjamin Barson, who teaches in the Department of Music at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. He is a practicing saxophone player who has worked with Fred Ho and other musicians dedicated to merging musical practice with radical politics. In addition to a number of musical pieces, journal and other publications, he is the author of Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons, published by Wesleyan University Press in 2025. In this conversation, we explore the origins of the project, its wide historical and political vision, and the place of brass brand music in political mobilizations past, present, and future.

Send us a textDo you ever go through times in your life where you lose your orientation?  Where you don't know exactly how you feel or what to do next?  In this episode I reflect on recent feelings of emotional exhaustion and a lack of creativity, a certain blankness that I connect to the concept of the "gap"  from contact improvisation. This gap represents a state of uncertainty and disconnection that can be uncomfortable, but also an opportunity for curiosity and growth. And is a state that we experience fairly often but often avoid or fill with habitual patterns.Drawing from Nancy Stark Smith's teachings, I explore practical ways to embrace this space, reject habitual patterns, and develop a conscious, present approach to life's uncertainties. The episode emphasizes the importance of acknowledging the gap, building capacity to be in it, and letting authentic experiences emerge.In this Episode:Understanding 'The Gap' in Improvisational DanceNavigating the Gap: Choices and StrategiesPersonal Reflections and StoriesBuilding Capacity to Embrace the GapReferences:Smith, N. S., & Koteen, D. (2021). Caught Falling: The Confluence of Contact Improvisation, Nancy Stark Smith, and Other Moving Ideas. Wesleyan University Press.Are you interested in joining my mailing list?  Opt in through one of the offerings below!My resources:Deep Rest MeditationNourished For Resilience Workbook Book a free Exploratory CallFind me at www.nourishednervoussystem.comand @nourishednervoussytem on Instagram

Su música, grandiosa y dramática, es consecuencia de su vida como refugiado y de la dramática división de Corea, su país natal. Su carrera internacional—con base en Alemania, donde vive con estatus de refugiado—es un grito a favor del arte y los derechos humanos._____Has escuchadoCello Concerto (1976). Luigi Piovano, violonchelo; Japan Philharmonic Orchestra; Tatsuya Shimono, director. Kairos (2022)Exemplum in memoriam Kwangju (1981). Gwangju Symphony Orchestra; Seokwon Hong, director. Deutsche Grammophon (2022)Fluktuationen (1964). Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Ernest Bour, director. Deutscher Musikrat (1983)Glissées (1970). Siegfried Palm, violonchelo. Deutsche Grammophon (1975)“Isang Yun: Symphony No. 1” (1983). Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra; Chi-Yong Chung, director. YouTube Vídeo. Publicado por hscherchen, 17 de septiembre de 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mi6Lg3sK6Q_____Selección bibliográficaAEISTER, Hanns-Werner y Walter-Wolfgang Sparrer, Der Komponist Isang Yun. Edition Text & Kritik, 1987ALBÈRA, Philippe, “La Rencontre de Yun et Carter”. En: Le son et le sens: essais sur la musique de notre temps. Contrechamps, 2007*BABCOCK, David, “Korean Composers in Profile”. Tempo, n.º 192 (1995), pp. 15-21*CRAIG, Dale A., “Trans-Cultural Composition in the 20th Century”. Tempo, n.º 156 (1986), pp. 16-18*KIM, Jeongmee, “Musical Syncretism in Isang Yun's Gasa”. En: Locating East Asia in Western Art Music. Editado por Yayoi Uno Everett y Frederick Lau. Wesleyan University Press, 2004SPARRER, Walter-Wolfgang, Isang Yun. Leben und Werk im Bild. Wolke Verlag, 2020 *Documento disponible para su consulta en la Sala de Nuevas Músicas de la Biblioteca y Centro de Apoyo a la Investigación de la Fundación Juan March

In the final episode of this second season of Off Center, Scott Rettberg is joined by Rob Wittig, a digital writing pioneer. Rob is an experimental writer in digital media and helped invent the genre Netprov. Learn more about what Netprov is in this episode. In this episode you find a new AI update with David Jhave Johnston, starting from 22:16. We will be back with another episode in September 2024. References de Chervantes, Michael. 1615. Don Quixote, Part Two. Francisco de Robles. Invisible Seattle. 1983-1993. IN.S.OMNIA. [Electronic magazine]. Rettberg, Scott. 2002. Kind of Blue. https://retts.net/kindofblue/. Wittig, Rob. 2002. Blue Company. https://www.robwit.net/bluecompany2002/. Wittig, Rob. 2000. Friday's Big Meeting. [Netprov], https://www.robwit.net/fbm/. Wittig, Rob. 2012. Grace, Wit and Charm. [Netprov], http://gracewitandcharm.com/. Wittig, Rob. 1994. Invisible Rendezvous: Connection and Collaboration in the New Landscape of Electronic Writing. Wesleyan University Press. Wittig, Rob, & Marino, Marc C. 2016. Monstrous Weather. [Netprov], http://meanwhilenetprov.com/index.php/project/monstrous-weather/. Wittig, Rob & Marino, Marc C. 2016. One Week, No Tech. [Netprov], https://meanwhilenetprov.com/index.php/project/one-week-no-tech/. Wittig, Rob. 2021. Netprov: Networked Improvised Literature for the Classroom and Beyond. Amherst College Press. https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/pc289m47x. Wittig, Rob, & Wohlstetter, Philip. 1983. Invisible Seattle: The Novel of Seattle, by Seattle.

Estilo de música minimalista definido por el uso de sonidos, notas o motivos repetidos cíclicamente. Las notas sostenidas o pedal se mantienen durante toda la pieza sin variaciones armónicas proporcionando una sensación envolvente y de trance._____Has escuchadoCathédrale de Strasbourg (2016) / Charlemagne Palestine. Charlemagne Palestine, órgano. Erratum (2016)For Organ and Brass (2016) / Ellen Arkbro. Johan Graden, órgano; Elena Kakaliagou, trompa; Hilary Jeffery, trombón; Robin Hayward, tuba. Subtext (2017)Monoliths & Dimensions. Big Church (2009) / Sunn O))). Southern Lord (2009)The Deontic Miracle: Selections from 100 Models of Hegikan Roku (1976) / Catherine Christer Hennix. Catherine Christer Hennix, oboe, electrónica, generadores de sonidos; Peter Hennix, oboe, sarangi; Hans Isgren, sarangi. Blank Forms Editions (2019)_____Selección bibliográficaBOON, Marcus, The Politics of Vibration: Music as a Cosmopolitical Practice. Duke University Press, 2022*CHRISTER, Catherine Hennix, Poësy Matters and Other Matters. Blank Forms, 2019*DEMERS, Joanna Teresa, Listening through the Noise: The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music. Oxford University Press, 2010*DONGUY, Jacques, Charlemagne Palestine. Editions Adam Musicae, 2022GILMORE, Bob et al., Phill Niblock: Working Title. Les Presses du Réel, 2012GLOVER, Richard, Music of Sustained Tones. Tesis doctoral, Universidad de Huddersfield, 2010LUCIER, Alvin, Eight Lectures on Experimental Music. Wesleyan University Press, 2018ROBIN, Purves, “Subject of the Drone”. Metal Music Studies, vol. 6, n.º 2 (2020), pp. 145-159STRAEBEl, Volker, “Technological Implications of Phill Niblock's Drone Music, Derived from Analytical Observations of Selected Works for Cello and String Quartet on Tape”. Organised Sound, vol. 13, n.º 3 (2008), pp. 225-235*TORVINEN, Juha y Susanna Välimaäki, “Nordic Drone: Pedal Points and Static Textures as Musical Imagery of the Northerly Environment”. En: The Nature Music of Nordic Music. Editado por Tim Howell. Routledge, 2019WANKE, Riccardo D., Sound in the Ecstatic-Materialist Perspective on Experimental Music. Routledge, 2022*WANNAMAKER, Robert A., “The Spectral Music of James Tenney”. Contemporary Music Review, n.º 27 (2008), pp. 130-191 *Documento disponible para su consulta en la Sala de Nuevas Músicas de la Biblioteca y Centro de Apoyo a la Investigación de la Fundación Juan March

On poet Lynn Hejinian's passing, I read excerpt from their 1983 essay "The Rejection of Closure" and excerpt from their book My Life (published by Wesleyan University Press). A consideration of form, time, consciousness, its mapping and some words too on capitalism, product and art. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

  181. Hartford and the Great Migration, 1914-1950   In the February 4, 2024 issue of the New York Times, journalist Adam Mahoney describes the Great Migration as a time when millions of Black people left the South to escape segregation, servitude and lynching and went North in search of jobs and stable housing. In this episode, host Mary Donohue will discuss Hartford and the Great Migration with Dr. Stacey Close. Connecticut Explored's book African American Connecticut Exploredpublished by Wesleyan University Press has just celebrated its 10th anniversary. Dr. Close served as one of the principal authors for this groundbreaking volume of essays that illuminate the long arc of Black history in Connecticut.   A native of Georgia, Dr. Close has worked in higher education for more than 25 years. A professor of African American history at Eastern Connecticut State University, Close received his Ph.D and M.A. from Ohio State University and his B.A. from Albany State College, a Historically Black College in Georgia. He is currently working on a book project entitled “Black Hartford Freedom Struggle, 1915-1970.”   Thanks to my guest Dr. Stacey Close. Read his article published in Connecticut Explored here: https://www.ctexplored.org/southern-blacks-transform-connecticut/   Subscribe to get your copy of Connecticut Explored magazine delivered to your mailbox-subscribe at https://simplecirc.com/subscribe/connecticut-explored   Was your family part of the Great Migration? Be sure to listen to GTN episode 127 to find out how to put your family's history together for future generations with Black family historians Jill Marie Snyder and Hartford's Orice Jenkins. https://gratingthenutmeg.libsyn.com/127-telling-your-family-story-with-jill-marie-snyder-and-orice-jenkins   Can you use your power of giving to make a $250 dollar donation? We would love to send you our brand-new Grating the Nutmeg t-shirt as a thank you!  Donor and t-shirt recipient Jack Soos writes “I love how this podcast uncovers amazing stories and historical insights right in our backyard! Thank you so much and keep up the good work!”   You can help us continue to produce the podcast by donating directly to Grating the Nutmeg on the Connecticut Explored website at ctexplored.org.   Click the donate button at the top and then look for the Grating the Nutmeg donation link at the bottom.   This episode of Grating the Nutmeg was produced by Mary Donohue and engineered by Patrick O'Sullivan at https://www.highwattagemedia.com/   Join us in two weeks for our next episode of Grating the Nutmeg, the podcast of Connecticut history. Image: Shiloh Baptist Church women's group, 336 Albany Avenue, Hartford, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History. 

The death of actor Peter Sellers in 1980 also seemed like the death of the Pink Panther film series. Instead, director Blake Edwards decided it was a new beginning. A beginning of numerous lawsuits, several flops, and one unseen television pilot. Author John LeMay and actor Charlie Schlatter help tell the story of what happened when Blake Edwards kept trying to keep the Panther on the hunt. SourcesBooksLeMay, John. Trailing the Pink Panther Films: An Unauthorized Guide to the Pink Panther Series. Bicep Books, January, 2022.Oldham, Gabriella. Blake Edwards: Interviews. University Press of Mississippi, December, 2017.Wasson, Sam. A Splurch in the Kisser: The Movies of Blake Edwards. Wesleyan University Press, July, 2011.Articles"Seller's Widow Wins $1 Million Damages Over Panther Film" AP News. AP Services, May 24, 1985. https://apnews.com/article/39ab5abec851ab132d99965780aa6a7e"Film maker Blake Edwards filed a $180 million lawsuit..." UPI Archives. September 28, 1983. https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/09/28/Film-maker-Blake-Edwards-filed-a-180-million-lawsuit/1090433569600/"BLAKE EDWARDS SUED BY MGM/UA" New York Times. Aljean Harmetz. April 17, 1984. https://www.nytimes.com/1984/04/17/movies/blake-edwards-sued-by-mgm-ua.htmlLinksClosing Night: Victor Victoria episodeTranscription Available at The Industry Podcast website. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join us for the first half of a special two-part podcast featuring Kazim Ali, who recently visited us in Philadelphia to read from his new book Sukun: New and Selected Poems (https://bookshop.org/p/books/sukun-new-and-selected-poems-kazim-ali/19644670?ean=9780819500700) (Wesleyan University Press, 2023). KAZIM ALI was born in the United Kingdom and has lived transnationally in the United States, Canada, India, France, and the Middle East. His books encompass multiple genres, including the volumes of poetry Inquisition, Sky Ward, winner of the Ohioana Book Award in Poetry; The Far Mosque, winner of Alice James Books' New England/New York Award; The Fortieth Day; All One's Blue; and the cross-genre texts Bright Felon and Wind Instrument. His novels include the recently published The Secret Room: A String Quartet and among his books of essays are the hybrid memoir Silver Road: Essays, Maps & Calligraphies and Fasting for Ramadan: Notes from a Spiritual Practice. He is also an accomplished translator (of Marguerite Duras, Sohrab Sepehri, Ananda Devi, Mahmoud Chokrollahi and others) and an editor of several anthologies and books of criticism. After a career in public policy and organizing, Ali taught at various colleges and universities, including Oberlin College, Davidson College, St. Mary's College of California, and Naropa University. He is currently a Professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. His newest books are a volume of three long poems entitled The Voice of Sheila Chandra and a memoir of his Canadian childhood, Northern Light.

Roxi Power talks with Brenda Hillman, winner this month of the Northern California Book Reviewers' Fred Cody Award  for Lifetime Achievement, about her 11th book of poetry with Wesleyan University Press, In a Few Minutes Before Later.   We discuss her new trans-genre tetralogy about time: how to find calm during the Anthropocene by being in time in multiple ways: sinking into the micro-minutes; performing micro-activism; and celebrating the microbiome. We explore her influences–from Blake to Bergson, Clare to Baudelaire, as well as the less celebrated moss, owls, and wood rats that appear frequently in her eco-poetry.  Alive with humor, witness, creative design and punctuation–what Forrest Gander calls “typographical expressionism”--Hillman's poetry teaches us how to abide in crisis from Covid to California fires, living in paradox as a way to transcend despair. Brenda Hillman shares the Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement Award with with Isabel Allende, Daniel Ellsberg, Michael Pollan, Ishmael Reed, Gary Snyder, Robert Duncan, Alice Walker and others. Winner of the William Carlos Williams Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the International Griffin Poetry Prize (for Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire, 2013), the Northern California Book Award (for Extra Hidden Life, among the Days, 2018) and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Academy of American Poets, Brenda Hillman was born in Tucson, Arizona and has been an active part of the Bay Area literary community since 1975.   She has edited an edition of Emily Dickinson's poems for Shambhala Press, and co-edited and co-translated several books.  She is director of the Poetry Program at the Community of Writers in Olympic Valley and is on the regular poetry staff ad Napa Valley Writers Conference. Hillman just retired from teaching in the MFA Program at St. Mary's College in Moraga, CA.  She has worked as an activist for social and environmental justice. She is a mother, grandmother, and is married to poet, Robert Hass.  Photograph by Robert Hass.

Janet O'Shea! Author! Professor! Martial artist! And more! Janet (Jay) is the author of Risk, Failure, Play: What Dance Reveals about Martial Arts Training (2019, Oxford University Press) and At Home in the World: Bharata Natyam on the Global Stage (2007, Wesleyan University Press). She is currently working on a book on risk, vulnerability, and activism entitled Bodies on the Line: Physical Risk and Social Justice. A practitioner of Brazilian jiu jitsu, Filipino martial arts, jeet kune do, and empowerment self-defense, she is professor of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at UCLA. When she's not swinging a stick or reading theory, she writes short fiction and general non-fiction. She lives in Los Angeles with her partner, child, and a motley pair of rescue dogs named Pico Rey and Freddie Femtu. We have a wonderfully informative conversation! I love it and you can love it, too! Thanks, all! PS This is only the first HALF of our chat. For the second half, head on over here to Patreon and enjoy EVERYTHING!

In this third and final part of the story, we see the men of the whaleship Essex embark on a journey of thousands of miles in open whaleboats in the hope of reaching the safety of the South American coast. Less than half of them will survive the ordeal, but for some their role in the story will continue even beyond death.  Sources: Brantlinger, Patrick. “Missionaries and Cannibals in Nineteenth-century Fiji.” History and Anthropology, vol. 17, no. 1, 2006, pp. 21-38.  Heffernan, Thomas Farel. Stove By a Whale: Owen Chase and the Essex. Wesleyan University Press, 1990.Hernández Gutierrez, José María. "Traveling Anthropophagy: The Depiction of Cannibalism in Modern Travel Writing, 16th to 19th Centuries." The Journal of World History, vol. 30, no. 3, Sept 2019. Philbrick, Nathaniel. In the Heart of the Sea. Penguin Books, 2000.The Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex: The True Story that Inspired Herman Melville's Moby Dick. Warbler Classics, 2022.Check out our Patreon here!Support the show

Part Two of our series on the whaleship Essex brings us from Nantucket all the way around Cape Horn to the Pacific whaling grounds, and the climactic showdown with 'the largest and most terrible of all created animals.'  Sources:Dolin, Eric Jay. Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America. W.W Norton & Company, 2008.Ellis, Richard. The Great Sperm Whale: A Natural History of the Ocean's Most Magnificent and Mysterious Creature. University Press of Kansas, 2011.Heffernan, Thomas Farel. Stove By a Whale: Owen Chase and the Essex. Wesleyan University Press, 1990. Pappas, Stephanie. "Why Has a Group of Orcas Suddenly Started Attacking Boats?" Scientific American, 24 May 2023. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-has-a-group-of-orcas-suddenly-started-attacking-boats/Philbrick, Nathaniel. In the Heart of the Sea. Penguin Books, 2000.Philbrick, Nathaniel. "'Every Wave Is a Fortune': Nantucket Island and the Making of an American Icon." The New England Quarterly, vol. 66, no. 3, Sep 1993, pp. 434 - 447.The Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex: The True Story that Inspired Herman Melville's Moby Dick. Warbler Classics, 2022. Shoemaker, Nancy. "Oil, Spermaceti, Ambergris, and Teeth." RCC Perspectives, no. 5 (New Histories of Pacific Whaling), 2019, pp. 17 - 22. Support the show

This week, Cindy Juyoung Ok talks with torrin a. greathouse, a transgender cripple-punk poet and essayist who is the author of DEED, which is forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press, and Wound from the Mouth of a Wound (Milkweed Editions, 2020). Ok and greathouse discuss the ways in which poetic forms can function as open-source software, and they dive into the beloved burning haibun form greathouse created. She wrote about the form for Poetry's new series, “Not Too Hard to Master,” which you can find alongside her Springsteen-inspired burning haibun, “Dancing in the Dark,” in the July/August issue of Poetry. They also interrogate the anti-trans rhetoric and language of radical white feminist poets, and greathouse reads “There's No Trace of the Word ‘Transgender' in Adrienne Rich's Biography,” which previously appeared in Poetry.

Critical Brass: Street Carnival and Musical Activism in Olympic Rio de Janeiro (Wesleyan University Press, 2022) tells the story of neofanfarrismo, an explosive carnival brass band community turned activist musical movement in Rio de Janeiro, as Brazil shifted from a country on the rise in the 2000s to one beset by various crises in the 2010s. Though predominantly middle-class, neofanfarristas have creatively adapted the critical theories of carnival to militate for a more democratic city. Illuminating the tangible obstacles to musical movement building, Andrew Snyder argues that festive activism with privileged origins can promote real alternatives to the neoliberal city, but meets many limits and contradictions in a society marked by diverse inequalities. Dr. Andrew Snyder is a Research Fellow in the Institute of Ethnomusicology at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa [New University] of Lisbon] in Portugal. Building on the recently published book that is the subject of this interview, Critical Brass: Street Carnival and Musical Activism in Olympic Rio de Janeiro, he is beginning a new book project focused on the postcolonial relationships enacted in Brazilian carnival practices in Lisbon. He has also increasingly worked as an editor, having co-edited the books, HONK! A Street Band Renaissance of Music and Activism and At the Crossroads: Music and Social Justice, and he will soon be a lead co-editor of the Journal of Festive Studies. He is also a trumpet player, who has played with many of the groups he studies. Isabel Machado is a cultural historian whose work often crosses national and disciplinary boundaries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After liberating themselves from the slave ship, Cinqué and the Amistad Africans are held in the United States, where the courts determine their status as enslaved or free. The national debate on slavery was channeled into the Supreme Court, where a former President defended the Africans.United States v. The Amistad :: 40 U.S. 518 (1841) :: Justia US Supreme Court Center Harris, Katherine J. (2014). "Colonization and Abolition in Connecticut". In Normen, Elizabeth J.; Harris, Katherine J.; Close, Stacey K.; Mitchell, Wm. Frank; White, Olivia (eds.). African American Connecticut Explored. Wesleyan University Press. p. 64. ISBN 978-0-8195-7398-8The Amistad Case | National ArchivesIsabella II, Queen of Spain | BritannicaArgument of John Quincy Adams, Before the Supreme Court of the United States : in the Case of the United States, Appellants, vs. Cinque, and Others, Africans, Captured in the schooner Amistad, by Lieut. Gedney; 1841U.S. v. Amistad -- argument of Attorney-General Gilpin | REME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES 40 U.S. 518; 10 L. Ed. 826 JANUARY, 1841 TermThe Amistad Trials: An Account | UMKC School of Law | Professor Douglas O. LinderPatreon: patreon.com/themorbidmuseum Instagram: @themorbidmuseum Email: themorbidmuseum@gmail.comArtwork: Brittany Schall Music: "Danse Macabre" by Camille Saint-Saens, performed by Kevin MacLeod

  Connecticut and Puerto Rico have strong ties. The guest for this episode is Pablo Delano, a visual artist, photographer, and educator recognized for his use of Connecticut and Puerto Rican history in his work, including his 2020 book of photography Hartford Seen published by Wesleyan University Press, a Connecticut Book Award 2021 “Spirit of Connecticut” finalist. Born and raised in Puerto Rico, he is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Fine Arts at Trinity College in Hartford. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions in museums and galleries in the U.S., Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Over the course of 20 years Delano amassed a substantial archive of artifacts related to a century of Puerto Rican history. Using this material, including three-dimensional objects, newspaper clippings, and photographs, he created The Museum of the Old Colony, a dynamic, site-specific art installation that examines the complex and fraught history of U.S. colonialism, paternalism, and exploitation in Puerto Rico. The title is a play on words, referencing both the island's political status and Old Colony, a popular local soft drink. The work is also deeply personal, a means for Delano to better understand and come to terms with the troubling history of Puerto Rico. Pablo was chosen by Connecticut Explored as a Connecticut History Game Changer Honoree in celebration of the magazine's 20th anniversary in 2022-23. Professor Delano has been featured on Grating the Nutmeg in episode 123 discussing his book of photographs Hartford Seen and in episode 152 Hartford and Puerto Rico: A Conversation between Delano and Puerto Rican historian Elena Rosario. He has an article in the Spring 2023 issue of Connecticut Explored - read here: www.ctexplored.org/game-changer-topsy-in-the-tropics/ While we might not be able to travel to see the exhibition in person, the University of Virginia Press has published a beautiful full-color catalog that includes a collection of very insightful essays edited by Laura Katzman as well as photos of the exhibition. It's available for purchase on Amazon-The Museum of the Old Colony, An Art Installation by Pablo Delano, 2023.   For more about Delano's work, go to his website at  http://museumoftheoldcolony.org/about/curatorial/ To see his photo essay on Hartford's Puerto Rican streetscapes- https://www.ctexplored.org/visually-breathtaking-hartford-explored/ Listen to his Grating the Nutmeg episodes here: https://gratingthenutmeg.libsyn.com/152-hartford-and-puerto-rico-a-conversation-with-elena-rosario-and-pablo-delano-cte-game-changer-series https://gratingthenutmeg.libsyn.com/123-connecticut-seen-the-photography-of-pablo-delano-and-jack-delano   Connecticut Explored, the nonprofit organization that publishes Connecticut Explored magazine, announced its “20 for 20: Innovation in Connecticut History,” series highlighting 20 “Game Changers” whose work is advancing the study, interpretation, and dissemination of Connecticut history. The initiative, funded by Connecticut Humanities and sponsored by Trinity College, is the centerpiece of Connecticut Explored's year-long celebration of its 20th anniversary. Subscribe at ctexplored.org Fresh episodes of Grating the Nutmeg are brought to you every two weeks with support from our listeners. You can help us continue to produce the podcast by donating directly to Grating the Nutmeg on the Connecticut Explored website at ctexplored.org   Click the donate button at the top and then look for the Grating the Nutmeg donation link at the bottom. Donations in any amount are greatly appreciated-we thank you!   This episode of Grating the Nutmeg was produced by Mary Donohue and engineered by Patrick O'Sullivan at www.highwattagemedia.com/ Donohue may be reached at marydonohue@comcast.net  

In this episode, Lyn Hejinian reads four untitled poems from The Book of A Thousand Eyes.Lyn Hejinian is a poet, translator, editor, and scholar whose literary career has been long associated with Language writing. Hejinian is the author of over twenty-five volumes of poetry and critical prose, the most recent of which are Tribunal (Omnidawn Books, 2019), Positions of the Sun (Belladonna, 2019), and a revised edition of Oxota: A Short Russian Novel (Wesleyan University Press, 2019.) Fall Creek, her latest long poem, is forthcoming from Litmus Press. A book of critical essays titled Allegorical Moments: Call to the Everyday will come out in Fall 2023 (Wesleyan University Press), and The Proposition, a critical edition of Hejinian's uncollected early work, is forthcoming from the University of Edinburgh Press (spring 2024). She is the editor of Tuumba Press, the co-director (with Travis Ortiz) of Atelos, a literary project commissioning and publishing cross-genre work by poets, and co-editor (with Jane Gregory and Claire Marie Stancek) of Nion Editions, a chapbook press. She lives in Berkeley, California.(Photo by Doug Hall)Links:Read four poems from The Book of a Thousand EyesBrief Interview and more at Omnidawn Press Bio and poems at Poets.orgBio and poems at the Poetry FoundationReadings, Talks, Q&As, and Lectures at PennSoundHejinian's books reviewed by Publishers Weekly

In this episode, Lyn Hejinian reads four untitled poems from The Book of A Thousand Eyes.Lyn Hejinian is a poet, translator, editor, and scholar whose literary career has been long associated with Language writing. Hejinian is the author of over twenty-five volumes of poetry and critical prose, the most recent of which are Tribunal (Omnidawn Books, 2019), Positions of the Sun (Belladonna, 2019), and a revised edition of Oxota: A Short Russian Novel (Wesleyan University Press, 2019.) Fall Creek, her latest long poem, is forthcoming from Litmus Press. A book of critical essays titled Allegorical Moments: Call to the Everyday will come out in Fall 2023 (Wesleyan University Press), and The Proposition, a critical edition of Hejinian's uncollected early work, is forthcoming from the University of Edinburgh Press (spring 2024). She is the editor of Tuumba Press, the co-director (with Travis Ortiz) of Atelos, a literary project commissioning and publishing cross-genre work by poets, and co-editor (with Jane Gregory and Claire Marie Stancek) of Nion Editions, a chapbook press. She lives in Berkeley, California.(Photo by Doug Hall)Links:Read four poems from The Book of a Thousand EyesBrief Interview and more at Omnidawn Press Bio and poems at Poets.orgBio and poems at the Poetry FoundationReadings, Talks, Q&As, and Lectures at PennSoundHejinian's books reviewed by Publishers WeeklyMentioned in this episode:KnoxCountyLibrary.orgThank you for listening and sharing this podcast. Explore life-changing resources and events, sign up for newsletters, follow us on social media, and more through our website, www.knoxcountylibrary.org.Rate & review on Podchaser

In this episode, Lauren Walker from the Rhody Radio crew and Coventry Public Library takes us on a walking tour of historic Maple Root Cemetery in Coventry, Rhode Island. This tour is based on information from the Pawtuxet Valley Preservation and Historical Society Cemetery Group. For more information about the PVPHS Cemetery Group, visit https://www.facebook.com/pawtuxetvalleyhistoricalcemeteries. Works cited: Eddleman, Bill, and John E. Sterling. Coventry, Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries. Gateway Press, 1998. Harpin, Mathias Peter. The High Road to Zion. Harpin's American Heritage Foundation, 1976. Huntley, Natalie. “Tombstone Symbols.” Tombstone Symbols, https://tn-roots.com/tndyer/cemetery/symbols.html. Keister, Douglas. Stories in Stone: A Field Guide to Cemetery Symbolism and Iconography. Gibbs Smith, 2004. Ludwig, Allan I. Graven Images: New England Stonecarving and Its Symbols, 1650-1815. Wesleyan University Press, 2000. Powell, Kimberly. “Photo Gallery of Cemetery Symbols and Icons.” ThoughtCo, ThoughtCo, 3 July 2019, https://www.thoughtco.com/photo-gallery-of-cemtery-symbolism-4123061. Symbolism in the Carvings on Old Gravestones. Association for Gravestone Studies, 1989. Music by BalanceBay from Pixabay. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rhodyradio/message

For this year's Halloween special, we wanted to take a journey through the filmography of one of our favorite film directors, Jordan Peele. From the breakout success of his 2017 thriller Get Out, to 2019's creepy and horrifying tour-de-force Us, to this year's action-packed monster movie Nope, Jordan Peele is becoming arguably one of the most important American directors working today. His films not only bend and play with the ostensible genre conventions he works within, they also deliver substantial, semiotically rich critiques of racial politics, class struggle, and media in American society and culture. Not to mention, his films are just immensely entertaining - equal parts deeply cerebral, outrageously funny, and heart-stoppingly terrifying.To help us discuss this topic, we're very excited to be joined by Dr. andré m. carrington, Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. Dr. carrington is a scholar of race, gender, and genre in Black and American cultural production. His first book, Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction (Minnesota, 2016) interrogates the cultural politics of race in the fantastic genres through studies of science fiction fanzines, comics, film and television, and other speculative fiction texts.We use concepts from Dr. carrington's (and other scholars') work to discuss all three of Peele's films, charting the salience of “paraspaces” and “Otherhoods” in each as spaces where speculative imaginaries of trauma and alterity can become bone-chillingly real (such as “the sunken place” in Get Out, or the subterranean tunnel dwellings of the tethered in Us). In addition, we cover the various ways Peele incorporates “fanservice” into his films, tipping a cap to fans of horror and sci-fi and providing moments of cathartic release amidst the deluge of dread, and playing with the various conventions of speculative fiction genres to create unique and cerebral insights against a tableau of terror.Follow Dr. andré m. carrington on Twitter, find links to more of his work on his UC-Riverside faculty profile, and check out his book, Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction.Be sure to follow UC-Riverside's Mellon Sawyer Seminar (which Dr. carrington is participating in this year), entitled “Unarchiving Blackness: Why the Primacy of African and African Diaspora Studies Necessitates a Creative Reconsideration of Archives.”Works and Concepts Cited in this Episode:Dash, J., & Baker, H. A. (1992). Not without my daughters. Transition, (57), 150-166.Delany, S. R. (2012). Shorter views: Queer thoughts & the politics of the paraliterary. Wesleyan University Press.Tananarive Due's course on The Sunken Place: Racism, Survival and Black HorrorGordon, A. F. (2008). Ghostly matters: Haunting and the sociological imagination. U of Minnesota Press.Lavender, I. (2011). Race in American science fiction. Indiana University Press.

In this episode, conference director Matthew Biberman talks with the celebrated feminist poet Brenda Hillman, who read at the LCLC in February 2022 as the creative keynote for its 49th annual conference. Brenda Hillman teaches at Saint Mary College of California. She is the Poetry Director of Community of Writers as well as Chancellor emerita of The Academy of American Poets and has authored 11 books of poetry (all from Wesleyan University Press). She has edited or translated (either alone or as part of a team) over 20 books. Her next collection of poetry is titled IN A FEW MINUTES BEFORE LATER. This episode will be of special interest to fans of contemporary poetry and poetics (with extended discussion of C. D. Wright, Joni Mitchell, Tom Sleigh and William Shakespeare's Tempest).

The belief of extraterrestrial life is one of the most exotic, exciting and long endearing throughout human history. Mars in particular has always proven to be of particular interest. One of our nearest planetary neighbours, the red planet has inspired thousands of works ranging from the earliest science fiction, all the way to contemporary fringe theology. In the late 19th Century, interest in the planet saw a boom, as astronomers battled with one another over their beliefs of the existence of a great Martian civilization, creating a scientific debate that crossed over into far more fringe elements. Spiritualism, with it's equal boom, became far more interested in the interstellar than one might expect and one case in particular, of a young, Swiss medium named Catherine Elise muller, would charge out in front, presenting the world with not only surreal images of the hypercolour martian landscape, but with descriptions of an alien society and a working language to boot. SOURCES Flournoy, Theodore (1900) From India to the Planet Mars. Harper & Bros, London, UK Keep, Christopher (2020) Life on Mars?: Hélène Smith, Clairvoyance, and Occult Media. Journal of Victorian Culture , Volume 25 (4) – Nov 16, 2020. Leeds Trinity University, Oxford University Press, UK. Clerke, Agnes Mary (2011) A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge University Press, UK. Greg, Percy (1880) Across the  Zodiac: The Story of a Wrecked Record. Ballantyne Press, London, UK.   Crossley, Robert (2011) Imagining Mars: A Literary History. Wesleyan University Press, CT, USA. Tipler, F.J. (1981) A Brief History of the Extraterrestrial Intelligence Concept. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 22, P. 133, 1981. ---------- For almost anything, head over to the podcasts hub at darkhistories.com Support the show by using our link when you sign up to Audible: http://audibletrial.com/darkhistories or visit our Patreon for bonus episodes and Early Access: https://www.patreon.com/darkhistories The Dark Histories books are available to buy here: http://author.to/darkhistories Dark Histories merch is available here: https://bit.ly/3GChjk9 Connect with us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/darkhistoriespodcast Or find us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkhistories & Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dark_histories/ Or you can contact us directly via email at contact@darkhistories.com or via voicemail on: (415) 286-5072 or join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/cmGcBFf The Dark Histories Butterfly was drawn by Courtney, who you can find on Instagram @bewildereye Music was recorded by me © Ben Cutmore 2017 Other Outro music was Paul Whiteman & his orchestra with Mildred Bailey - All of me (1931). It's out of copyright now, but if you're interested, that was that.  

Chinese science fiction has been booming lately through the translation of books like Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem, but where did the current surge come from? In Celestial Empire: The Emergence of Chinese Science Fiction (Wesleyan University Press, 2017), Nathaniel Isaacson introduces the genre's origins in China and tracks its development from roughly 1904 to 1934. During that period, China's final dynasty, the Qing, came to an end amid European nations' increasing control of China, the Republic of China was established, and Japan conquered Manchuria while the Chinese Communist Party was established and grew into a major political-cultural force. Isaacson connects these political shifts to the establishment of science fiction in China through key works by authors like Lu Xun, Wu Jianren, and Lao She. In so doing, he shows how Chinese science fiction is connected to Edward Said's concept of Orientalism, depicting authors' struggles to subvert Orientalist attitudes toward China. Isaacson traces how Orientalism and its attendant colonialist projects were intertwined with Western scientific knowledge in such a way as to make science fiction a fruitful medium for cultural debates over China's role in the world. Nathaniel Isaacson is an Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Literature in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at North Carolina State University. His research interests include the history of Chinese science and science fiction, Chinese cinema, cultural studies, and literary translation. Nathaniel has published articles and translations in the Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures, Osiris, Science Fiction Studies, Renditions, Pathlight, and Chinese Literature Today. His book, Celestial Empire: the Emergence of Chinese Science Fiction (2017), examines the emergence of sf in late Qing China. His current book project, Moving the People: the Aesthetics of Mass Transit in Modern China, examines narratives of development as a theme in modern Chinese literary and visual culture primarily through the figure of the train. Amanda Kennell is an Assistant Teaching Professor of International Studies at North Carolina State University. She writes about Japanese media and is currently completing Alice in Japanese Wonderlands: Translation, Adaptation, Mediation, a book about contemporary media and Japanese adaptations of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland novels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Chinese science fiction has been booming lately through the translation of books like Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem, but where did the current surge come from? In Celestial Empire: The Emergence of Chinese Science Fiction (Wesleyan University Press, 2017), Nathaniel Isaacson introduces the genre's origins in China and tracks its development from roughly 1904 to 1934. During that period, China's final dynasty, the Qing, came to an end amid European nations' increasing control of China, the Republic of China was established, and Japan conquered Manchuria while the Chinese Communist Party was established and grew into a major political-cultural force. Isaacson connects these political shifts to the establishment of science fiction in China through key works by authors like Lu Xun, Wu Jianren, and Lao She. In so doing, he shows how Chinese science fiction is connected to Edward Said's concept of Orientalism, depicting authors' struggles to subvert Orientalist attitudes toward China. Isaacson traces how Orientalism and its attendant colonialist projects were intertwined with Western scientific knowledge in such a way as to make science fiction a fruitful medium for cultural debates over China's role in the world. Nathaniel Isaacson is an Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Literature in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at North Carolina State University. His research interests include the history of Chinese science and science fiction, Chinese cinema, cultural studies, and literary translation. Nathaniel has published articles and translations in the Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures, Osiris, Science Fiction Studies, Renditions, Pathlight, and Chinese Literature Today. His book, Celestial Empire: the Emergence of Chinese Science Fiction (2017), examines the emergence of sf in late Qing China. His current book project, Moving the People: the Aesthetics of Mass Transit in Modern China, examines narratives of development as a theme in modern Chinese literary and visual culture primarily through the figure of the train. Amanda Kennell is an Assistant Teaching Professor of International Studies at North Carolina State University. She writes about Japanese media and is currently completing Alice in Japanese Wonderlands: Translation, Adaptation, Mediation, a book about contemporary media and Japanese adaptations of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland novels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Chinese science fiction has been booming lately through the translation of books like Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem, but where did the current surge come from? In Celestial Empire: The Emergence of Chinese Science Fiction (Wesleyan University Press, 2017), Nathaniel Isaacson introduces the genre's origins in China and tracks its development from roughly 1904 to 1934. During that period, China's final dynasty, the Qing, came to an end amid European nations' increasing control of China, the Republic of China was established, and Japan conquered Manchuria while the Chinese Communist Party was established and grew into a major political-cultural force. Isaacson connects these political shifts to the establishment of science fiction in China through key works by authors like Lu Xun, Wu Jianren, and Lao She. In so doing, he shows how Chinese science fiction is connected to Edward Said's concept of Orientalism, depicting authors' struggles to subvert Orientalist attitudes toward China. Isaacson traces how Orientalism and its attendant colonialist projects were intertwined with Western scientific knowledge in such a way as to make science fiction a fruitful medium for cultural debates over China's role in the world. Nathaniel Isaacson is an Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Literature in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at North Carolina State University. His research interests include the history of Chinese science and science fiction, Chinese cinema, cultural studies, and literary translation. Nathaniel has published articles and translations in the Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures, Osiris, Science Fiction Studies, Renditions, Pathlight, and Chinese Literature Today. His book, Celestial Empire: the Emergence of Chinese Science Fiction (2017), examines the emergence of sf in late Qing China. His current book project, Moving the People: the Aesthetics of Mass Transit in Modern China, examines narratives of development as a theme in modern Chinese literary and visual culture primarily through the figure of the train. Amanda Kennell is an Assistant Teaching Professor of International Studies at North Carolina State University. She writes about Japanese media and is currently completing Alice in Japanese Wonderlands: Translation, Adaptation, Mediation, a book about contemporary media and Japanese adaptations of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland novels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/east-asian-studies

Chinese science fiction has been booming lately through the translation of books like Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem, but where did the current surge come from? In Celestial Empire: The Emergence of Chinese Science Fiction (Wesleyan University Press, 2017), Nathaniel Isaacson introduces the genre's origins in China and tracks its development from roughly 1904 to 1934. During that period, China's final dynasty, the Qing, came to an end amid European nations' increasing control of China, the Republic of China was established, and Japan conquered Manchuria while the Chinese Communist Party was established and grew into a major political-cultural force. Isaacson connects these political shifts to the establishment of science fiction in China through key works by authors like Lu Xun, Wu Jianren, and Lao She. In so doing, he shows how Chinese science fiction is connected to Edward Said's concept of Orientalism, depicting authors' struggles to subvert Orientalist attitudes toward China. Isaacson traces how Orientalism and its attendant colonialist projects were intertwined with Western scientific knowledge in such a way as to make science fiction a fruitful medium for cultural debates over China's role in the world. Nathaniel Isaacson is an Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Literature in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at North Carolina State University. His research interests include the history of Chinese science and science fiction, Chinese cinema, cultural studies, and literary translation. Nathaniel has published articles and translations in the Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures, Osiris, Science Fiction Studies, Renditions, Pathlight, and Chinese Literature Today. His book, Celestial Empire: the Emergence of Chinese Science Fiction (2017), examines the emergence of sf in late Qing China. His current book project, Moving the People: the Aesthetics of Mass Transit in Modern China, examines narratives of development as a theme in modern Chinese literary and visual culture primarily through the figure of the train. Amanda Kennell is an Assistant Teaching Professor of International Studies at North Carolina State University. She writes about Japanese media and is currently completing Alice in Japanese Wonderlands: Translation, Adaptation, Mediation, a book about contemporary media and Japanese adaptations of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland novels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science-fiction

Chinese science fiction has been booming lately through the translation of books like Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem, but where did the current surge come from? In Celestial Empire: The Emergence of Chinese Science Fiction (Wesleyan University Press, 2017), Nathaniel Isaacson introduces the genre's origins in China and tracks its development from roughly 1904 to 1934. During that period, China's final dynasty, the Qing, came to an end amid European nations' increasing control of China, the Republic of China was established, and Japan conquered Manchuria while the Chinese Communist Party was established and grew into a major political-cultural force. Isaacson connects these political shifts to the establishment of science fiction in China through key works by authors like Lu Xun, Wu Jianren, and Lao She. In so doing, he shows how Chinese science fiction is connected to Edward Said's concept of Orientalism, depicting authors' struggles to subvert Orientalist attitudes toward China. Isaacson traces how Orientalism and its attendant colonialist projects were intertwined with Western scientific knowledge in such a way as to make science fiction a fruitful medium for cultural debates over China's role in the world. Nathaniel Isaacson is an Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Literature in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at North Carolina State University. His research interests include the history of Chinese science and science fiction, Chinese cinema, cultural studies, and literary translation. Nathaniel has published articles and translations in the Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures, Osiris, Science Fiction Studies, Renditions, Pathlight, and Chinese Literature Today. His book, Celestial Empire: the Emergence of Chinese Science Fiction (2017), examines the emergence of sf in late Qing China. His current book project, Moving the People: the Aesthetics of Mass Transit in Modern China, examines narratives of development as a theme in modern Chinese literary and visual culture primarily through the figure of the train. Amanda Kennell is an Assistant Teaching Professor of International Studies at North Carolina State University. She writes about Japanese media and is currently completing Alice in Japanese Wonderlands: Translation, Adaptation, Mediation, a book about contemporary media and Japanese adaptations of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland novels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

Chinese science fiction has been booming lately through the translation of books like Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem, but where did the current surge come from? In Celestial Empire: The Emergence of Chinese Science Fiction (Wesleyan University Press, 2017), Nathaniel Isaacson introduces the genre's origins in China and tracks its development from roughly 1904 to 1934. During that period, China's final dynasty, the Qing, came to an end amid European nations' increasing control of China, the Republic of China was established, and Japan conquered Manchuria while the Chinese Communist Party was established and grew into a major political-cultural force. Isaacson connects these political shifts to the establishment of science fiction in China through key works by authors like Lu Xun, Wu Jianren, and Lao She. In so doing, he shows how Chinese science fiction is connected to Edward Said's concept of Orientalism, depicting authors' struggles to subvert Orientalist attitudes toward China. Isaacson traces how Orientalism and its attendant colonialist projects were intertwined with Western scientific knowledge in such a way as to make science fiction a fruitful medium for cultural debates over China's role in the world. Nathaniel Isaacson is an Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Literature in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at North Carolina State University. His research interests include the history of Chinese science and science fiction, Chinese cinema, cultural studies, and literary translation. Nathaniel has published articles and translations in the Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures, Osiris, Science Fiction Studies, Renditions, Pathlight, and Chinese Literature Today. His book, Celestial Empire: the Emergence of Chinese Science Fiction (2017), examines the emergence of sf in late Qing China. His current book project, Moving the People: the Aesthetics of Mass Transit in Modern China, examines narratives of development as a theme in modern Chinese literary and visual culture primarily through the figure of the train. Amanda Kennell is an Assistant Teaching Professor of International Studies at North Carolina State University. She writes about Japanese media and is currently completing Alice in Japanese Wonderlands: Translation, Adaptation, Mediation, a book about contemporary media and Japanese adaptations of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland novels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

Chinese science fiction has been booming lately through the translation of books like Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem, but where did the current surge come from? In Celestial Empire: The Emergence of Chinese Science Fiction (Wesleyan University Press, 2017), Nathaniel Isaacson introduces the genre's origins in China and tracks its development from roughly 1904 to 1934. During that period, China's final dynasty, the Qing, came to an end amid European nations' increasing control of China, the Republic of China was established, and Japan conquered Manchuria while the Chinese Communist Party was established and grew into a major political-cultural force. Isaacson connects these political shifts to the establishment of science fiction in China through key works by authors like Lu Xun, Wu Jianren, and Lao She. In so doing, he shows how Chinese science fiction is connected to Edward Said's concept of Orientalism, depicting authors' struggles to subvert Orientalist attitudes toward China. Isaacson traces how Orientalism and its attendant colonialist projects were intertwined with Western scientific knowledge in such a way as to make science fiction a fruitful medium for cultural debates over China's role in the world. Nathaniel Isaacson is an Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Literature in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at North Carolina State University. His research interests include the history of Chinese science and science fiction, Chinese cinema, cultural studies, and literary translation. Nathaniel has published articles and translations in the Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures, Osiris, Science Fiction Studies, Renditions, Pathlight, and Chinese Literature Today. His book, Celestial Empire: the Emergence of Chinese Science Fiction (2017), examines the emergence of sf in late Qing China. His current book project, Moving the People: the Aesthetics of Mass Transit in Modern China, examines narratives of development as a theme in modern Chinese literary and visual culture primarily through the figure of the train. Amanda Kennell is an Assistant Teaching Professor of International Studies at North Carolina State University. She writes about Japanese media and is currently completing Alice in Japanese Wonderlands: Translation, Adaptation, Mediation, a book about contemporary media and Japanese adaptations of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland novels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/chinese-studies

This episode was written using the following references:American Film Institute. (2010, February 5). Frank Capra Accepts the 10th AFI Life Achievement Award in 1982 [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t746ZVw09P4Balio, T. (1993). Grand design : Hollywood as a modern business enterprise, 1930-1939. New York: Scribner.Capra, F. (1971). The name above the title : an autobiography. New York: Macmillan.Tzioumakis Y. (2006) American independent cinema, an introduction. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.Mizejewski, L. (2010). It happened one night. Chichester, U.K. ;: Wiley-Blackwell.Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream (1998) dirs. Simcha Jacobovici and Stuart Samuels.Muscio, G. (1998). Roosevelt, Arnold, and Capra, (or) the Federalist-Populist Paradox. In Sklar, R. & Zagarrio, V. (eds.) Frank Capra: Authorship and the Studio System (pp. 164-189). Philadelphia: Temple University Press.Carney, R. (1996). American vision : the films of Frank Capra. Hanover, N.H. ;: Wesleyan University Press.Poague, L. (1994). Another Frank Capra. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

March is Women's History Month and in this episode, publisher Elizabeth Normen talks with author Eve Kahn about her 2019 book, Forever Seeing New Beauties: The Forgotten Impressionist Mary Rogers Wiliams,1857 - 1907 (Wesleyan University Press, 2019). It's a rare insider view of the challenges women artists faced in the late 19th century. Kahn drew from a collection of Williams's gossipy letters home in which she describes her desperation to escape her teaching job at Smith College to paint and travel abroad. Hear how Williams talked her way into artist James McNeil Whistler's London home, and about drawing from a cadaver at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris.  Find out about Eve Kahn's upcoming author talks at https://www.evekahn.com and read her story in the Winter 2021-2022 issue of CTExplored at https://www.ctexplored.org/mary-rogers-williams-we-shall-want-to-do-a-lot-of-rambling/.  

Paula Matthusen is a composer who writes both electroacoustic and acoustic music and realizes sound installations. She has written for diverse instrumentations, such as “run-on sentence of the pavement” for piano, ping-pong balls, and electronics, which Alex Ross of The New Yorker noted as being “entrancing”. Her work often considers discrepancies in musical space—real, imagined, and remembered. Awards include the Walter Hinrichsen Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Fulbright Grant, two ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers' Awards, and the 2014 - 2015 Elliott Carter Rome Prize. Matthusen is currently Professor of Music at Wesleyan University. The book mentioned is Edges & Fray by Danielle Vogel, published by Wesleyan University Press. LOOM • ROOM • HARP has it's own web site here: https://loom-room-harp.space/ one thing five times from Paula Matthusen on Vimeo. between systems and grounds, with Olivia Valentine. Photo by Olivia Valentine. More info at https://betweensystemsandgrounds.com/

Show Notes With last week's general discussion of the plot of Char's Counterattack out of the way, it's time to start diving deep on specific aspects of the film. This week: environmental justice advocate Colin joins us to discuss the environment, and environmentalism, in Char's Counterattack. Plus in the research Thom explores what it might mean that the Federation is headquartered in Lhasa while Nina looks at how a 1988 audience might have responded to talk of 'nuclear winter'. From the Talkback In preparation for our conversation, Colin had us read "Principles of Environmental Justice" by the Delegates to the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit held on October 24-27, 1991, and "The Progressive Plantation" by Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin. You can find Colin on Twitter at @padgettish and listen to them co-host for Wow! Cool Robot!!'s coverage of Zeta Gundam, or their own much less serious podcast about Medabots at Medawatch. They also recommended the Environmental Justice Network as a resource. Lhasa, Tibet Timeline of major events in Tibetan history from the BBC. Tibetan history via Britannica. Wikipedia pages for the history of Tibet, Lhasa, the 5th Dalai Lama, Tibet under Qing rule, and Mongol invasions of Tibet. General Tibetan history: “Tibetan Nation: A History Of Tibetan Nationalism And Sino-tibetan Relations,” by Warren Smith. Routledge. 1997. Tourist guide to the Potala Palace (which definitely appears in the movie) and the Jokhang Temple (which probably does). By She Jingwei for China Global Television Network, Mar. 26, 2019. Available at https://news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d514d30496a4e33457a6333566d54/index.html. Recent History: Tibet and China: “Tibet, China and the United States: Reflections on the Tibet Question.” By Melvyn C. Goldstein for The Atlantic Council of the United States. 1995. Available at https://web.archive.org/web/20061106021854/http://cc.purdue.edu/~wtv/tibet/article/art4.html. Topgyal, Tsering. “Identity Insecurity and the Tibetan Resistance Against China.” Pacific Affairs 86, no. 3 (2013): 515–38. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43590713. “The Monastery as a Medium of Tibetan Culture,” Donald S. Lopez, Jr. For Cultural Survival Quarterly Magazine. March 1988. Available at https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/monastery-medium-tibetan-culture. “Timeline of Destruction of Tibetan Buddhist Monasteries in China,” by Alexander Berzin. 1994. Available at https://studybuddhism.com/en/advanced-studies/history-culture/buddhism-in-east-asia/timeline-of-destruction-of-tibetan-buddhist-monasteries-in-china “Threat from Tibet? Systemic Repression of Tibetan Buddhism in China,” by Ryan Cimmino for Harvard International Review. Sept. 16, 2018. Available at https://hir.harvard.edu/repression-tibetan-buddhism-china/. “Genocide in Tibet,” by Maura Moynihan for the Washington Post, Jan. 25, 1998. Available at https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1998/01/25/genocide-in-tibet/27c0891c-57f1-4a7c-b873-a1071d93cbfd “'Prosecute them with Awesome Power' - China's Crackdown on Tengdro Monastery and Restrictions on Communications in Tibet.” Human Rights Watch. July 6, 2021. Available at https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/07/06/prosecute-them-awesome-power/chinas-crackdown-tengdro-monastery-and-restrictions International Resolutions and Recognition on Tibet (1959 to 2004), assembled by Lobsang Nyandak Zayul for the Department of Information and International Relations, Central Tibetan Administration. Available at https://tibet.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/International-rsolutions-on-Tibet.pdf The Dalai Lama: “Chronology of Events [in the Dalai Lama's life].” From the Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Available at https://www.dalailama.com/the-dalai-lama/events-and-awards/chronology-of-events “14th Dalai Lama,” by Britannica. Available at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dalai-Lama-14th/Life-in-exile “Dalai Lama caught in the middle as India and China reboot ties,” by Sugam Pokharel for CNN. March 30, 2018. Available at https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/30/asia/india-tibet-china-dalai-lama-intl/index.html “Dalai Lama opens exhibit of Tibetan art at Ueno,” by Ray Mahon for Stars and Stripes. Sept. 28, 1967. Available at https://www.stripes.com/news/dalai-lama-opens-exhibit-of-tibetan-art-at-ueno-1.18977. The 1980s Negotiations: Norbu, Dawa. “China's Dialogue With the Dalai Lama 1978-90: Prenegotiation Stage of Dead End?” Pacific Affairs 64, no. 3 (1991): 351–72. https://doi.org/10.2307/2759468. “Tibet 1985: The Last Fact-Finding Delegation - A Personal Account” by Tenzin Phuntsok Atisha.” 2020. Available at https://www.atc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Tibet-1985-EBOOK.pdf. A report about the 1980s negotiations, based on declassified documents created by US officials at the time. “U.S. Officials Hoped Chinese Liberalization Program for Tibet in Early 1980s Would Bring Significant Improvements,” by Robert A. Wampler for National Security Archive. Feb. 28, 2013. Available at https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB414/. Press release: “Sino-Tibetan Contacts to Resume,” by Chhime R. Chhoekyapa from the Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, including an annexed timeline of negotiations between the Dalai Lama and Beijing. May 2, 2008. Available at https://www.c3sindia.org/geopolitics-strategy/sino-tibetan-contacts-to-resume/ Additional relevant Wikipedia entries on the "Great Game," the 1959 Tibetan uprising, Tibetan unrest 1987-1989, the Tibet Autonomous Region, Chushi Gangdruk, the Tibetan independence movement, the Convention of Lhasa, and the Seventeen Point Agreement. Japan, Chernobyl, & Nuclear Anxiety Wikipedia pages for the Chernobyl disaster, its effects, and its cultural impact, Page on the Chernobyl accident from the World Nuclear Association. About the "Red Forest." Page on the "Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident." Wikipedia pages for the band The Blue Hearts (ザ・ブルーハーツ), and for "On Your Mark," the Change and Aska song with the Ghibli/Miyazaki AMV (anime music video). Radiophobia. Specific pages on the nuclear-power debate, the anti-nuclear movement (in general and in Japan), and anti-nuclear organizations. Japanese-language page on the anti-nuclear movement. Website for the Citizens Nuclear Information Center (原子力資料情報室) (shortened to CNIC), a Japanese anti-nuclear organization (in Japanese), History and timeline for CNIC (in English). CNIC English-language newsletters, Oct. 1987, Dec.1987, and Jan-Feb 1988. Contemporary articles the Chernobyl disaster: Silk, L. (1986, May 02). Economic scene|: Chernobyl's world impact. New York Times (1923-) Retrieved from https://www.proquest.com/historical-newspapers/economic-scene/docview/110930284/se-2?accountid=35927 Hudson, Richard L., Terence Roth. "Chernobyl: Coping with Consequences --- Lingering Fallout: A Year Later, Mishap at Chernobyl Damps Atom-Power Industry --- Siemens Plant-Building Unit Battles Germany's Greens, Seeks to Reassure Public --- in Britain, Cuddly Reactors." Wall Street Journal Apr 23 1987, Eastern edition ed.: 1. ProQuest. 10 Nov. 2021. STUART D. "BIG AREA STRICKEN: SPREAD OF RADIOACTIVITY WAS FAR GREATER THAN INDICATED BEFORE FALLOUT FROM CHERNOBYL DISASTER AFFECTED LARGER AREA THAN FIRST REPORTED." New York Times (1923-) Aug 22 1986: 2. ProQuest. 10 Nov. 2021. Taylor, Robert E. "Scope of Chernobyl Accident is Unclear to West as Fallout Continues to Spread." Wall Street Journal May 05 1986, Eastern edition ed.: 1. ProQuest. 10 Nov. 2021. "Panel Says Japan should Boost Nuclear Power use." Wall Street Journal Jul 21 1986, Eastern edition ed.: 1. ProQuest. 10 Nov. 2021. WEINSTEIN, BERNARD L. and HAROLD T. GROSS. "Japan is Spending Heavily to Avoid Oil." New York Times (1923-), Mar 27, 1988, pp. 1. ProQuest, https://www.proquest.com/historical-newspapers/japan-is-spending-heavily-avoid-oil/docview/110543916/se-2?accountid=35927. ERIK E. "After Accident at the Soviet Station, Nuclear Power is Questioned again." New York Times (1923-), May 02, 1986, pp. 1. ProQuest, https://www.proquest.com/historical-newspapers/after-accident-at-soviet-station-nuclear-power-is/docview/110943137/se-2?accountid=35927. Other articles and papers: Zhukova, Ekatherina. “Foreign Aid and Identity after the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster: How Belarus Shapes Relations with Germany, Europe, Russia, and Japan.” Cooperation and Conflict, vol. 52, no. 4, Sage Publications, Ltd., 2017, pp. 485–501, https://www.jstor.org/stable/48590276. Okabe, Aki. “Japan Reacts to Chernobyl.” Earth Island Journal, vol. 2, no. 2, Earth Island Institute, 1987, pp. 14–15, http://www.jstor.org/stable/43881866. Great book about film director and screenwriter Honda Ishiro (本多 猪四郎): Ryfle, Steve, et al. Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film, from Godzilla to Kurosawa. Wesleyan University Press, 2017. English and Japanese Wikipedia pages for the Kurosawa Akira (黒澤 明) film, 生きものの記録 or "I Live in Fear." About the Stanley Kubrick film "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb." Not mentioned in the research but when I was editing and got to the part about Nazi scientists, I remember the existence of this satirical song, "Wernher Von Braun" by Thomas Andrew Lehrer (1965). Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario. You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center. Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/. We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment. 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In this episode, join Mary Donohue, Asst. Publisher of Connecticut Explored, for a discussion with Pablo Delano, visual artist, photographer and professor of fine arts at Trinity College - and the artist behind the new book Hartford Seen, published in 2020 by Wesleyan University Press. His work is featured in the photo essay “Visually Breathtaking Hartford Explored” in the Summer 2021 issue of Connecticut Explored magazine. Professor Delano's father, Jack Delano, was a renown American New Deal-era photographer for the Farm Security Administration who photographed Connecticut in 1940.   To see more of Pablo Delano's work, look for his new book Hartford Seen wherever you get your books or order here https://www.hfsbooks.com/books/hartford-seen-delano/ For more information on “The Museum of the Old Colony” exhibition, see the exhibit website and exhibition information below: Official website Web page from the last iteration of the project at Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture: https://cadvc.umbc.edu/pablo-delano-the-museum-of-the-old-colony/ Web page from Photoville Festival https://photoville.nyc/the-museum-of-the-old-colony/ Exhibition catalog from CADVC https://cadvc.umbc.edu/files/2020/02/Museum-of-The-Old-Colony-2.pdf Exhibition catalog from Hampshire College https://sites.hampshire.edu/gallery/files/2018/10/MoOC_catalogue_spreads.pdf To see more of Jack Delano's work as a photographer for the Federal Security Administration, go to the Library of Congress website at LOC.gov Jack Delano Photographs, Library of Congress https://www.loc.gov/photos/?fa=subject:color%7Ccontributor:delano,+jack Jack Delano Papers, 1927-1995, Library of Congress https://www.loc.gov/item/mm98084274/ To read more about Jack Delano's photographs taken of Connecticut's Jewish farmers, get the book A Life of the Land: Connecticut's Jewish Farmers available from the Greater Hartford Jewish Historical Society on their website at https://jhsgh.org/ This episode was produced by Mary Donohue, Assistant Publisher of Connecticut Explored, and engineered by Patrick O'Sullivan. Contact Donohue at marydonohue@comcast.net Want to know more about Connecticut's landmarks, museums, art, and history? Subscribe to Connecticut Explored-in your mailbox or inbox. And for a daily dose of history, visit Today in Connecticut History produced by the Connecticut State Historian at TodayinCThistory.com

This week we'll travel back to the early 18th century (and the middle of the Pacific) with In the Heart of the Sea! Join us to learn more about issues of race and ethnicity on whaling ships, Herman Melville, cannibalism, the mysterious skeletons found in a cave on Henderson Island, and more! Sources: Race and the Crew: Nancy Shoemaker, Native American Whalemen and the World: Indigenous Encounters and the Contingency of Race (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2015). Nancy Shoemaker, "Mr. Tashtego: Native American Whalemen in Antebellum New England," Journal of the Early Republic 33:1 (Spring 2013): 109-132. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23392572 Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (New York: Penguin, 2000). Thomas Nickerson, Owen Chase, and Others, The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale: First-Person Accounts (New York: Penguin, 2000). Timothy G. Lynch, "Black Ahab of the Bay: William T. Shorey and the San Francisco Whale Fishery," Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Power in Maritime America ed. Glenn Gordinier, 135-41 (Mystic, CT: Mystic Seaport Museum, 2008). Marilyn Halter, Between Race and Ethnicity: Cape Verdean American Immigrants, 1860-1965 (University of Illinois, 1993). Lawrence C. Howard, "A Note on New England Whaling and Africa Before 1860," Negro History Bulletin 22:1 (October 1958): 13-16. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44215363 Kelly K. Chaves, "Before the First Whalemen: The Emergence and Loss of Indigenous Maritime Autonomy in New England, 1672-1740," The New England Quarterly 87:1 (March 2014): 46-71. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43285053 Film Background: Scout Tafoya, The Unloved, In the Heart of the Sea: https://vimeo.com/412586427 Perri Nemiroff, "Ron Howard Discusses Making In the Heart of the Sea With a Low Budget Mentality," Collider: https://collider.com/ron-howard-interview-in-the-heart-of-the-sea/ Matt Zoller Seitz, Review of In the Heart of the Sea, Rogerebert.com: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/in-the-heart-of-the-sea-2015 Interview with Tom Holland, In the Heart of the Sea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RsWoxF_UD8 Melville and Hawthorne: Steven B. Herrmann, "Melville's Portrait of Same-Sex Marriage in Moby Dick," Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche 4, 3 (2010) Charles N. Watson, Jr. "The Estrangement of Hawthorne and Melville," New England Quarterly 46, 3 (1973) Melville and Hawthorne, Excerpt from The Life and Works of Hermann Melville, available at http://www.melville.org/hawthrne.htm "Read a Love Letter from Hermann Melville to Nathaniel Hawthorne," LitHub, available at https://lithub.com/read-a-love-letter-from-herman-melville-to-nathaniel-hawthorne/ Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Full Text available at https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2701/2701-h/2701-h.htm Cannibalism: Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (New York: Penguin, 2000). Thomas Nickerson, Owen Chase, and Others, The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale: First-Person Accounts (New York: Penguin, 2000). A.W.B. Simpson, "Cannibals at Common Law," The Law School Record 27 (Fall 1981): 3-10. Duncan Frost, "'Provisions being scarce and pale death drawing nigh,/They'd try to cast lots to see who should die': The Justification of Shipwreck Cannibalism in Popular Balladry," Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal 7:2 (2020): 17-34. Paul Cowdell, "Cannibal Ballads: Not Just a Question of Taste..." Folk Music Journal 9:5 (2010): 723-747. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25654209 Henderson Island: Vincent H. Stefan et al, "Henderson Island Crania and their Implications for Southeastern Polynesian Prehistory," The Journal of Polynesian Society 111, 4 (2002) Marshall I. Weisler, "The Settlement of Marginal Polynesia: New Evidence from Henderson Island," Journal of Field Archaeology 21, 1 (1994) Owen Chase, Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex. 1821 Thomas Ferrell Heffernan, Stove By a Whale: Owen Chase and the Essex. Wesleyan University Press, 2013 F.R. Fosberg et al, "Henderson Island (Southeastern Polynesia): Summary of Current Knowledge," Atoll Research Bulletin, no 272. 1983.

You won't find it on the commercial soundtrack, but the music leading up to Holdo's sacrifice represents the culmination of profound thematic transformation rarely heard in all of Star Wars. Highlights: How the Desperation motif spawned from the Tension motif (after various iterations). Desperation motif is heard in its final form as the three subplots come to a head and finishes right as Holdo rams into the Supremacy. Frank Lehman's "Thematic Transformation and the Limits of Leitmotivic Analysis" Basic vs. advanced ways that leitmotifs tend to undergo transformation in Star Wars The shelf-stable analogy of preserving precious leitmotifs for future use... and how that isn't the case here Teleological genesis: when a theme develops from a motivic fragment and culminates in a final instance, never to reoccur. Speculation, philosophical questions, and who cares about thematic transformation anyway? Also in these minutes: silence! Where we are in the soundtrack: "Holdo's Resolve" -- it's not on the commercial soundtrack. https://youtu.be/3rIBFn3oU7c Sources and References: Buhler, James. 2000. "Star Wars, Music and Myth." In Music and Cinema. Wesleyan University Press. https://academic.csuohio.edu/kneuendorf/c49415/Buhler00.pdf Darcy, Warren. 2001. "Rotational Form, Teleological Genesis, and Fantasy-Projection in the Slow Movement of Mahler's Sixth Symphony." University of California Press https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/ncm.2001.25.1.49 Lehman, Frank. 2019. "Thematic Transformation and the Limits of Leitmotivic Analysis." Talk given at Society for Music Theory, 2019 https://youtu.be/4ZBCNK0PYrk -- 2021. Complete Catalogue of the Musical Themes of Star Wars: https://franklehman.com/starwars/ Schneller, Tom. 2014. "Sweet Fulfillment: Allusion and Teleological Genesis in John Williams's Close Encounters of the Third Kind." https://www.academia.edu/6928980/Sweet_Fulfillment_Allusion_and_Teleological_Genesis_in_John_Williams_s_Close_Encounters_of_the_Third_Kind Svejda, Jim. 2018. "John Williams Discusses “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” and “The Post.” KUSC Interviews. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/john-williams-discusses-star-wars-the-last-jedi-and-the-post/id616808075?i=1000403320805 Connect with Star Wars Music Minute: Watch us on YouTube: youtube.com/starwarsmusicminute Twitter: @StarWarsMusMin and @chrysanthetan Instagram: @starwarsmusicminute and @chrysanthetan Email podcast@starwarsmusicminute.com Submit anonymous questions/comments for the show with this quick form. Want more? Check out Chrysanthe's Patreon for weekly practice/composing/music analysis livestreams.

Kazim Ali was born in the United Kingdom and has lived transnationally in the United States, Canada, India, France, and the Middle East. His books encompass multiple genres, including several volumes of poetry, novels, and translations. He is currently a Professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. His newest books are a volume of three long poems entitled The Voice of Sheila Chandra (Alice James Books, 2020) and a memoir of his Canadian childhood, Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water. Social Media: Twitter: @kazimalipoet, IG: @kazimalipoet "Abu Nuwas" previous appeared in Inquisition, Wesleyan University Press, 2018. Text of today's poem and more details about our program can be found at: deerfieldlibrary.org/queerpoemaday/ Queer Poem-a-Day is directed by poet and teacher Lisa Hiton and Dylan Zavagno, Adult Services Coordinator at the Deerfield Public Library. Music for our series is from Excursions Op. 20, Movement 1, by Samuel Barber, performed by pianist Daniel Baer. Queer Poem-a-Day is supported by a generous donation from the Friends of the Deerfield Public Library. Queer Poem-a-Day is a program from the Adult Services Department at the Library and may include adult language.

This week, Donna and Kris dip their toes into the treacherous waters of New French Extremity with “Martyrs” (2008), a horror film following the survivor of child abduction and torture as she seeks revenge upon the people who abused her. Also, the unexpected beauty found in darkness and suffering, moving on with trauma and depression, and the existential importance of love and empathy!CONTENT WARNINGS: Abduction, Forced Captivity, Child Abuse, Torture, Blood, Gun Violence, Physical Assault, Mental Illness, Self Harm, Forced Feeding, Forced Drugging, Suicide, Despair/NihilismGot questions, comments, stories, or movie suggestions? Hit us with them at info@shtlstpod.com! Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter and Instagram @shtlstpod for all your gross movie updates!SHOW NOTES:Watch “Martyrs”: iTunes, Youtube, Google Play.“Martyrs (2008),” IMDB.“Martyrs (2008 film),” Wikipedia.“Controversy over Pascal Laugier’s Martyrs,” Fabien Lemercier, 2 June 2008.“Northlander interviews MARTYRS' Pascal Laugier - and he spills about his HELLRAISER remake!!,” Ain’t It Cool News, 28 December 2008.“Exclusive Interview: Martyrs Director Pascal Laugier,” Ryan Rotten, Shock Till You Drop, 23 June 2008.“Confronting Mortality: “The New French Extremity”, the Hostel Films and Outdated Terminology (Part 1 of 3),” Matt Smith, The Split Screen, 6 June 2011.“Style and Sensation in the Contemporary French Cinema of the Body,” Tim Palmer, Journal of Film and Video 58.3, University of Illinois, 2006.“Why Pascal Laugier’s Martyrs is the greatest horror film of the 21st century,” Rebecca Hawkes, The Telegraph, 1 April 2016.“Horror and Transcendence: An Interview with Pascal Laugier,” Robin Ono, Rue Morgue, 18 July 2018.Palmer, Tim (2011). Brutal Intimacy: Analyzing Contemporary French Cinema, Wesleyan University Press, Middleton CT.

No one knows more about transportation in Connecticut than historian, civil engineer, and highway and transportation planner Richard DeLuca. In this recent virtual lecture for Cheshire Public Library, promoting his new, second volume on Connecticut transportation history Paved Roads and Public Money  (Wesleyan University Press), DeLuca underscores the inseparable relationships among population, technology, and the environment. 

EN ESPAÑOL Hoy tenemos en placer de conversar con reconocido artista visual, fotógrafo profesor en Trinity College, Pablo Delano. Recientemente, Pablo Delano viajó a través de los Estados Unidos presentando su exitoso proyecto, The Museum of the Old Colony, llamado en parte por el refresco, muy popular en Puerto Rico, Old Colony. Esto es una instalación móvil de fotografías históricas de Puerto Rico donde examina cómo los puertorriqueños fueron retratados y exhibidos por sus amos coloniales. Hoy vamos a conversar con Pablo sobre su nuevo libro titulado Hartford Seen. Este es un libro de fotografías exclusivamente de la capital de Connecticut. Publicado por Wesleyan University Press en Abril 2020. La exhibición incluye 126 fotografías, organizadas en grupos de tipos y usos de edificios similares. Con detalles precisos y un color sorprendente, sus imágenes capturan los edificios públicos y privados de Hartford, escenas de calles, casas y escaparates, momentos en el tiempo que reflejan los sueños y las realidades de las personas que viven y trabajan aquí.

Speakers: Judith Shapiro, Director of the Masters in Natural Resources and Sustainable Development for the School of International Service, American University Yifei Li, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at NYU Shanghai,Global Network Assistant Professor, New York University; Residential Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich Yifei Li is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at NYU Shanghai and Global Network Assistant Professor at NYU. In the 2020-2021 academic year, he is also Residential Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich. His research concerns both the macro-level implications of Chinese environmental governance for state-society relations, marginalized populations, and global ecological sustainability, as well as the micro-level bureaucratic processes of China’s state interventions into the environmental realm. He has received research support from the United States National Science Foundation, the University of Chicago Center in Beijing, and the China Times Cultural Foundation, among other extramural sources. He is coauthor (with Judith Shapiro) of China Goes Green: Coercive Environmentalism for a Troubled Planet. His recent work appears in Current Sociology, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Environmental Sociology, Journal of Environmental Management, and other scholarly outlets. He received his Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Bachelor’s from Fudan University. Judith Shapiro is Director of the Masters in Natural Resources and Sustainable Development for the School of International Service at American University and Chair of the Global Environmental Politics program. She was one of the first Americans to live in China after U.S.-China relations were normalized in 1979, and taught English at the Hunan Teachers’ College in Changsha, China. She has also taught at Villanova, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Aveiro (Portugal) and the Southwest Agricultural University in Chongqing, China. She was a visiting professor at Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University. Professor Shapiro’s research and teaching focus on global environmental politics and policy, the environmental politics of Asia, and Chinese politics under Mao. She is the author, co-author or editor of nine books, including (with Yifei Li) China Goes Green: Coercive Environmentalism for a Troubled Planet (Polity 2020), China’s Environmental Challenges (Polity 2016), Mao’s War against Nature (Cambridge University Press 2001), Son of the Revolution (with Liang Heng, Knopf 1983), After the Nightmare (with Liang Heng, Knopf 1987), Cold Winds, Warm Winds: Intellectual Life in China Today (with Liang Heng, Wesleyan University Press 1987), Debates on the Future of Communism (co-edited with Vladimir Tismaneanu, Palgrave 1991), and, together with her mother Joan Hatch Lennox, Lifechanges: How Women Can Make Courageous Choices (Random House, 1991). Dr. Shapiro earned her Ph.D. from American University’s School of International Service. She holds an M.A. in Asian Studies from the University of California, Berkeley and another M.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Illinois, Urbana. Her B.A. from Princeton University is in Anthropology and East Asian Studies.

Charles Stratton, who would become world famous as “Tom Thumb” in the mid-19th century, was born in Bridgeport, CT on January 4, 1838 to parents of average height, and he grew normally during the first six months of his life -- to about 25 inches or so. And then, surprisingly, he just stopped growing.  When P.T. Barnum, the master showman, would meet Charles and his parents, Charlie was 4, and he’d be signed on the spot to play the part of “General Tom Thumb” at Barnum’s American Museum. He’d be given a fancy new wardrobe, a new nationality (British), and a new age -- 11 years old. Charles would perform for the rest of his life as “Tom Thumb”. He’d enchant European royalty and American presidents, and sell out crowds around the world. And in 1863, during the darkest days of the Civil War, he’d be married in New York’s Grace Church to Lavinia Warren, another Barnum employee and another performer of short stature. Their wedding would be a sensation, and would actually knock news from the battlefields off the front page of the New York Times for three days. We're joined in today’s show by four guests: Dr. Michael Mark Chemers is a Professor of Dramatic Literature and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Theatre Arts at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He’s the author of Staging Stigma: A Critical Examination of the American Freak Show published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2008, in which he looks into the career and reception of Charles Stratton.  Eric Lehman is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Bridgeport and the author of 18 books, including Becoming Tom Thumb, published in 2013 by Wesleyan University Press. Kathy Maher is the Executive Director of the Barnum Museum and is celebrating her 22nd year with the Museum. Located an hour out of New York City, P.T. Barnum's last museum continues to stand on Main Street in the heart of downtown Bridgeport, CT, his adopted home.  Although the Barnum Museum is currently closed due to covid-19 regulations, the Museum remains active with social media, virtual programming and a major historic restoration and re-envisioning https://barnum-museum.org/ Robert Wilson has been the editor of The American Scholar magazine since 2004. Before that, he edited Preservation magazine and was the book editor and columnist for USA Today. His previous books include The Explorer King (2006), about the 19th-century scientist, explorer, and writer Clarence King, and Mathew Brady: Portraits of a Nation (2013), about the Civil War photographer. His most recent book, Barnum: An American Life (from 2019), has just been published in paperback.  Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

'Pretty Little' by Rae Armantrout. 'Pretty Little' will appear in Rae Armantrout's forthcoming collection, 'Conjure' to be published by Wesleyan University Press in September 2020. More from Rae Armantrout can be found at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/rae-armantrout and https://poets.org/poet/rae-armantrout

Books by M. NourbeSe PhilipBlank: Essays and Interviews (Book*hug, 2017)She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks (Wesleyan University Press, 2015)Zong! (Wesleyan University Press, 2011)A Genealogy of Resistance and Other Essays (Mercury Press, 1998)Frontiers: Selected Essays and Writings on Racism and Culture 1984-1992 (Mercury Press, 1992)Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence (Mercury Press, 1991)Other Texts and Writers Featured in the EpisodeKamau BrathwaiteNathaniel (Nate) Mackey and his lecture, “Breath and Precarity”Phillis WheatleyGeorge Lamming’s In The Castle of My Skin (University of Michigan Press, 1992)George Lamming’s The Pleasures of Exile (University of Michigan Press, 1991)Claire HarrisDionne BrandHarold Sonny Ladoo’s No Pain Like this Body (House of Anansi, 2013)Austin Clarke (fiction writer)George Elliot Clarke’s argument about Nova Scotia preachers’ sermonsNgũgĩ wa Thiong'oAdrienne Rich’s Of Woman BornDerek Walcott’s Ti-Jean and His BrothersOther Relevant LinksSawubonaShonaHeinemann African SeriesTabebuia or Poui Trees of Trinidad and TobagoLionheart (movie)Kikuyu people of KenyaMalinke people (colonized by the French)Afro-futurism

对摇滚的诞生影响最大，但大部分人应该都不知道的一件事，就是表演艺术著作权管理组织 BMI 的诞生。 ASCAP 作为版权组织是怎么挣钱和分钱的； 电台为什么需要 BMI 来对抗 ASCAP； 美国广播史上的大禁播：优质 vs 廉价； BMI 的出现如何鼓励新音乐。 《talich 闲侃》，有闲得聊，关注美国流行文化史，网址：https://talich.fm 相关链接 主要参考文献 Ennis, P. H. (1992). The seventh stream: the emergence of rocknroll in American popular music. Wesleyan University Press. Sanjek, R. (1988). American popular music and its business: the first four hundred years. Vol. 3. New York: Oxford University Press. Sterling, C. H. & Kittross, J. M. (2002). Stay tuned: a history of American broadcasting (3rd ed). Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 登场人物 talich: 美国流行文化史爱好者，《娱乐的逻辑》作者

Award-winning novelist Ernest Hebert talks with Sean about his writing process and what compelled him to write his first published novel.

二战后 DJ 和独立电台的兴起。 战后独立电台热； 独立电台的商业模式； RCA 诉 Whiteman 案； DJ 创造的虚拟社区； DJ 如何制造金曲 《talich 闲侃》，有闲得聊，关注美国流行文化史，网址：https://talich.fm 相关链接 主要参考文献 Ennis, P. H. (1992). The seventh stream: the emergence of rocknroll in American popular music. Wesleyan University Press. Osgerby, B. (2001). Playboys in Paradise: Masculinity, Youth and Leisure-Style in Modern America. Berg Publishers. Brewster, B. & Broughton, F. (1999). Last night a DJ saved my life: the history of the disc jockey (1st American ed). New York: Grove Press. Cantor, L. (1992). Wheelin' on Beale: how WDIA-Memphis became the nation's first all-Black radio station and created the sound that changed America. New York: Pharos Books. Susan Douglas, Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004) 相关录音： WDIA 在 1953 年出的宣传节目 B. B. King 关于 WDIA 的采访 Martin Block: Make Believe Ballroom, WABC New York, June 16, 1956 Franklin D Roosevelt 的第一次炉边谈话，March 12, 1933 Dewey Philips: Red Hot & Blue, WHBQ Memphis, 1952 Jocko Henderson, WOV 1280AM New York, 1957 Wolfman Jack 在《American Graffiti》里拍演他自己 Hunter Hancock Theme, Johnny Otis 词曲，演奏 Johnny Otis and his California Rhythm and Blues Caravan，Hunter Hancock 播音 登场人物 talich: 美国流行文化史爱好者，《娱乐的逻辑》作者

Today on a special Halloween episode of Tomb with a View we dive into a story straight out of Cumberland, Liz's hometown and look at the weird and wonderful history of the New England Vampire panic. Are there really vampires? Where do the legends come from? What do these stories tell us about the Victorian obsession with death? And most importantly where are the vampires buried?www.tombwithaview.weebly.com Instagram: tomb.with.a.viewFacebook: Tomb with a View PodcastTwitter: tombwith_aviewEmail: tombwithaviewpodcast@gmail.comSelect Bibliography:Bell, Michael E., Food for the Dead: On the Trail of New England's Vampires. (Wesleyan University Press, 2001).D'Agostino, Thomas, Haunted Rhode Island. (Schiffer, 2006).Rondina, Christopher, The Vampire Hunter's Guide to New England: True Tales of the Yankee Undead. (Covered Bridge Press, 2000).Rogak, Lisa, Stones and Bones of New England: A Guide to Unusual, Historic, and Otherwise Notable Cemeteries. (The Globe Pequot Press, 2004).Tucker, Abigail, "The Great New England Vampire Panic." Smithsonian Magazine, October, 2012.Bills, Joe, "New England's Vampire History: Legends and Hysteria." New England Living Today, October 28, 2019.Herwick III, Edgar B., "Salem Witches, Sure. What About the New England Vampire Panic?" WGBH, October 31, 2018.

Abigail Chabitnoy is a poet of Unangan and Sugpiaq descent and a member of the Tangirnaq Native Village in Kodiak, Alaska. She received her MFA at Colorado State University, where she was an associate editor for the Colorado Review. Her first full length book of poetry, How to Dress a Fish was published in February of 2019 by Wesleyan University Press.Abigail Chabitnoy reads from How to Dress a Fish, which addresses the lives disrupted by US Indian boarding school policy.

开始一个新的系列：为什么会有摇滚。讨论 1950 年代摇滚乐（Rock & Roll）的诞生过程。 在系列的第一集，我们聊聊摇滚出现以前美国流行音乐的生态与产业链，并试图回答一个问题：摇滚的出现为什么是二十世纪美国最重要的音乐事件？ 1954 年时独立音乐的产业链 vs 1936 年时流行音乐的产业链； Billboard 的榜单是干什么用的； 摇滚之前的年代里，流行音乐是怎么营销的； 流行歌 vs 流行舞：摇摆舞时代； 唱片时代的声音革命 《talich 闲侃》，有闲得聊，关注美国流行文化史，网址：https://talich.fm 相关链接 主要参考文献 Whitburn, J. (1986). Joel Whitburn's Pop memories, 1890-1954: the history of American popular music : compiled from America's popular music charts 1890-1954. Menomonee Falls, Wis.: Record Research. （这本书现在似乎已经被拆成了 Pop Memories 1900-1940 与 Pop Hits Singles & Albums 1940-1954 两本） Billboard Magazine 1920 to 2016 Ennis, P. H. (1992). The seventh stream: the emergence of rocknroll in American popular music. Wesleyan University Press. Sanjek, R. (1988). American popular music and its business: the first four hundred years. Vol. 3. New York: Oxford University Press. Wald, E. (2009). How the Beatles destroyed rock 'n' roll: an alternative history of American popular music. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Zak, A. (2010). I don't sound like nobody: remaking music in 1950s America. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 相关歌曲: That's All Right，Arthur Crudup 词曲、原唱，Elvisley 演唱，1954 年 Sun Records 发行 Pennies From Heaven， Johnny Burke 词，Arthur Johnston 曲，Bing Crosby 演唱，1936 年 Decca Records 发行 After The Ball, Charles Harris 词曲, George Gaskin 演唱，1893 年 Edison Records 发行 Benny Goodman At the Palomar Ballroom, Los Angeles, 1935 年 8 月 22 日电台录音，节目中选曲为：Darktown Strutters' Ball，Shelton Brooks 作曲，1917 年出版。 Summertime，选自民谣歌剧（folk opera）《Porgy and Bess》，DuBose Heyward，Ira Gershwin 词，George Gershwin 曲，Billie Holiday 演唱，1936 年 Vocalion Records 发行 Sing, Sing, Sing，Louis Prima 作曲，Benny Goodman 和他的乐队演奏，1936 年 RCA Victor 发行 人物简介 talich: 美国流行文化史爱好者，《娱乐的逻辑》作者

In this Gate-leg Table interview with state historian Walt Woodward, transportation historian Richard DeLuca takes us on an expert's tour of Connecticut's long history of charging people to get from here to there. From turnpikes to bicycle roads, the state highway system to the parkways and toll roads Connecticut got rid of in the 1980s, DeLuca provides the background you need to make good decisions about The Toll Question in Connecticut. DeLuca is the author of POST ROADS AND IRON HORSES and PAVED ROADS AND PUBLIC MONEY, forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press. 

Prior to 1857, no one had ever heard of Hinton Helper. To be clear, Helper was not a libertarian, he was a vehement racist who made it quite clear that he did not believe that people of color belonged in North America at all. Helper had one great contribution to history and that was his book The Impending Crisis of the South. However, if you read his work closely, his racist remarks were class-oriented to appeal to poor whites. He urged them to revolutionize society. Helper detested the rich white planter elite which was the result of excessive slavery.Who was Hinton Helper? Was his book, The Impending Crisis of the South, more influential than Uncle Tom’s Cabin? Was Helper an abolitionist? Did Helper see slavery as having any value? What was Helper’s version of manifest destiny?Further Reading:Helper, The Impending Crisis of the SouthGeorge Frederickson, “Chapter 2: Antislavery Racist—Hinton Rowan Helper,” in The Arrogance of Race: Historical Perspective on Slavery, Racism, and Social Inequality, Wesleyan University Press. 1988.Brooks, Corey M. Liberty Power: Antislavery Third Parties and the Transformation of American Politics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2016.Related Content:Cannibals All!, with Phil Magness, Liberty Chronicles PodcastThere’s No Excuse for Slavery (Updated), Liberty Chronicles Podcast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

When you feel a slight cold coming on, do you have the desire to dig up a dead family member and burn his heart for your cure? If so, then this episode is for you. Strange Country explores the anti-vampire rituals in 18th- and 19th-century New England that were used to ward off consumption. While it may suck, this episode sure doesn't. Theme music: Resting Place by A Cast of Thousands Sources used: Bard, Megan . “In 1854, Vampire Panic Struck Connecticut Town.” The Register Citizen, 8 Nov. 2008, www.registercitizen.com/news/article/In-1854-vampire-panic-struck-Connecticut-town-12156066.php. Bell, Michael E. Food for the dead: on the trail of New Englands vampires. Wesleyan University Press, 2011. Bendici, Ray. “The Jewett City Vampires, Griswold.” Damned Connecticut, www.damnedct.com/the-jewett-city-vampires-griswold. Johnson, Kirk. “28 Graves Giving Up Secrets of the 1700's.” The New York Times, 10 Sept. 1992, www.nytimes.com/1992/09/10/nyregion/28-graves-giving-up-secrets-of-the-1700-s.html. Little, Becky. “The Bloody Truth About Vampires.” National Geographic, National Geographic Society, 27 Oct. 2016, news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/10/vampires-europe-new-england-halloween-history/. Mandal, MD Dr Ananya. “History of Tuberculosis.” News-Medical.net, 30 Oct. 2017, www.news-medical.net/health/History-of-Tuberculosis.aspx. Odone, Jamison. “Poor Nancy Young, the Suspected Teen Vampire of Rhode Island.” Atlas Obscura, Atlas Obscura, 10 Jan. 2017, www.atlasobscura.com/articles/poor-nancy-young-the-suspected-teen-vampire-of-rhode-island. Pringle, Heather. “Archaeologists Suspect Vampire Burial; An Undead Primer.” National Geographic, National Geographic Society, 15 July 2013, news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/07/130715-vampire-archaeology-burial-exorcism-anthropology-grave/. Thomson, Samuel. New guide to health: or, Botanic family physician. Containing a complete system of practice, upon a plan entirely new: with a description of the vegetables made use of, and directions for preparing and administering them to cure disease. To which is added a description of several cases of disease attended by the author, with the mode of treatment and cure. Vt., 1851, archive.org/details/cihm_01684. Tucker, Abigail. “The Great New England Vampire Panic.” Smithsonian.com, Smithsonian Institution, 1 Oct. 2012, www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-great-new-england-vampire-panic-36482878/.

DRAWDOWN is the most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming. Based on ten years of research, the book outlines one hundred solutions for drawing carbon out of the atmosphere back to safe levels within thirty years. Over the next months, Portland based poet Alicia Cohen will read DRAWDOWN. For each of the solutions she will write a poem, to be read out load on Radio Luftballett. Alicia Cohen is a poet based in Portland, Oregon. She is the author of three books of poetry: Coherer (Verge Books), Debts and Obligations (O Books), and Bear (Handwritten Press). Her work is included in anthologies including Make It True: Poetry from Cascadia, Salt: Poetry on the Oregon Coast and forthcoming Earth Bound: Compass Points Toward an Ecopoetics and Counter-Desecration Phrasebook: A Glossary for Writing Within the Anthropocene both from Wesleyan University Press. She had a doctorate from the poetics program at SUNY Buffalo and has written on the politics of visibility in contemporary poetry; presently she is working on questions of ecology, feminism and housework. Radio Luftballett is produced by Margrethe Kolstad Brekke/KORO Vågestykke 2017. Soundscapes and Jingles - based on Jon Gjerde`s recorded hangglider loops- by Hilde Annine Hasselberg and Thorolf Thuestad.

DRAWDOWN is the most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming. Based on ten years of research, the book outlines one hundred solutions for drawing carbon out of the atmosphere back to safe levels within thirty years. Over the next months, Portland based poet Alicia Cohen will read DRAWDOWN. For each of the solutions she will write a poem, to be read out load on Radio Luftballett. Alicia Cohen is a poet based in Portland, Oregon. She is the author of three books of poetry: Coherer (Verge Books), Debts and Obligations (O Books), and Bear (Handwritten Press). Her work is included in anthologies including Make It True: Poetry from Cascadia, Salt: Poetry on the Oregon Coast and forthcoming Earth Bound: Compass Points Toward an Ecopoetics and Counter-Desecration Phrasebook: A Glossary for Writing Within the Anthropocene both from Wesleyan University Press. She had a doctorate from the poetics program at SUNY Buffalo and has written on the politics of visibility in contemporary poetry; presently she is working on questions of ecology, feminism and housework. Produced by Margrethe Kolstad Brekke/KORO Vågestykke 2017. Soundscapes and Jingles - based on Jon Gjerde`s recorded hangglider loops- by Hilde Annine Hasselberg and Thorolf Thuestad.

Wednesday Reading Series Michael Davidson is Professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Century (Cambridge U Press, 1989), Ghostlier Demarcations: Modern Poetry and the Material Word (U of California Press, 1997), Guys Like Us: Citing Masculinity in Cold War Poetics (U of Chicago, 2003) and Concerto for the Left Hand: Disability and the Defamiliar Body (U of Michigan, 2008). His most recent book, Outskirts of Form: Practicing Cultural Poetics was published in 2011 by Wesleyan University Press. He is the editor of The New Collected Poems of George Oppen (New Directions, 2002). He is the author of five books of poetry, the most recent of which is The Arcades (O Books, 1998). He is the co-author, with Lyn Hejinian, Barrett Watten, and Ron Silliman, of Leningrad (Mercury House Press, 1991). Marjorie Welish is the author of The Annotated “Here” and Selected Poems, Word Group, Isle of the Signatories, and In the Futurity Lounge / Asylum for Indeterminacy (Spring 2012), all from Coffee House Press. The papers delivered at a conference on her writing and art held at the University of Pennsylvania were published in the book Of the Diagram: The Work of Marjorie Welish (Slought Books). In 2009, Granary Books published Oaths? Questions?, a collaborative artists' book by Marjorie Welish and James Siena which was the subject of a special exhibition at Denison University Museum, Granville, Ohio, and part of a two-year tour of artists' books throughout the United States. Her honors include the George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Fellowship from Brown University, the Judith E. Wilson Visiting Poetry Fellowship at Cambridge University, and two fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has held a Senior Fulbright Fellowship, which has taken her to the University of Frankfurt and to the Edinburgh College of Art. She is now Madelon Leventhal Rand Distinguished Lecturer in Literature at Brooklyn College.

Every year there are thousands of books published and any one of them could appeal to you. To help you find great new books, Locus publishes a list of forthcoming titles every three months.   And to help you navigate through that, each quarter we invite Locus  Editor-in-Chief Liza Groen Trombi to join us and discuss the books that we think might be most interesting that are due out between now and the end of 2015. This month, unfortunately, Liza was not able to join us. However, we have persevered and have some recommendations for you. Of course, we strongly recommend you pick up a copy of the June issue of Locus and see the full list, which goes through to March 2016.  As promised, here's our list: ABERCROMBIE, JOE Half a War, Ballantine Del Rey, Jul 2015 (eb, hc)  BEAR, GREG Killing Titan, Orbit US, Oct 2015 (hc) BENFORD, GREGORY The Best of Gregory Benford, Sub- terranean Press, Jul 2015 (c, eb, hc) BIANCOTTI, DEBORAH Waking in Winter, PS Publishing, Jul 2015 (na, hc) BLAYLOCK, JAMES P. Beneath London, Titan US, May 2015 (eb, tp) BRAY, LIBBA Lair of Dreams, Little, Brown, Aug 2015 (1st US, ya, eb, hc) CHO, ZEN Sorcerer to the Crown, Macmillan, Sep 2015 (eb, hc) CIXIN, LIU The Dark Forest, Tor, Jul 2015 (eb, hc)  DE BODARD, ALIETTE House of Shattered Wings, Penguin/Roc, Sep 2015 (1st US, hc) DICKINSON, SETH The Traitor Boru Cormorant, Macmillan/Tor UK, Aug 2015 (eb, hc) GORODISCHER, ANGELICA Prodigies, Small Beer Press, Aug 2015 (eb, tp)  HAND, ELIZABETH Wylding Hall, Open Road, Jul 2015  HOLLAND, CECELIA Dragon Heart, Tor, Sep 2015 (eb, hc)  HOPKINSON, NALO Falling in Love with Hominids, Tachyon Publications, Aug 2015 (c, tp) HURLEY, KAMERON Empire Ascendant, Angry Robot US, Oct 2015 (eb, tp) HUTCHISON, DAVE, Europe in Autumn, Solaris, UK/US Nov 2015  (tp) KIERNAN, CAITLÍN R. Beneath an Oil-Dark Sea, Subterranean Press, Nov 2015 (c, eb, hc) KRESS, NANCY The Best of Nancy Kress, Subterranean Press, Sep 2015 (c, eb, hc) LECKIE, ANN Ancillary Mercy, Orbit US, Oct 2015 (tp)  LIU, KEN The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, Simon & Schuster/Saga Press, Nov 2015 (c, eb, hc) McDONALD, IAN Luna: New Moon, Tor, Sep 2015 (eb, hc) McDONALD, IAN The Best of Ian MacDonald, PS Publishing, Jun 2015 (c, hc)  McDONALD, IAN The Locomotives' Graveyard, PS Publishing, Aug 2015 (na, hc)  McDONALD, IAN Mars Stories, PS Publishing, Aug 2015 (c, hc) MIÉVILLE, CHINA Three Moments of an Explosion, Ballantine Del Rey, Aug 2015 (1st US, c, eb, hc) MITCHELL, DAVID Slade House, Random House, Oct 2015 (eb, hc)  MORROW, JAMES Reality by Other Means: The Best Short Fiction of James Morrow, Wesleyan University Press, Nov 2015 (c, hc) NAGATA, LINDA, The Red:Going Dark, Saga Press, Nov 2015 (hc) NIX, GARTH  To Hold the Bridge, Harper, Jun 2015 (c, ya, hc) PRATCHETT, TERRY The Shepherd's Crown, HarperCollins, Sep 2015 (ya, hc)  REYNOLDS, ALASTAIR The Best of Alastair Reynolds, Subterranean Press, Nov 2015 (c, eb, hc) RICKERT, MARY The Corpse Painter's Masterpiece: New and Selected Stories, Small Beer Press, Aug 2015 (c, eb, tp) ROBERTS, ADAM The Thing Itself, Orion/Gollancz, Dec 2015 (tp) SCALZI, JOHN The End of All Things, Tor, Aug 2015 (eb, hc) SWANWICK, MICHAEL Chasing the Phoenix, Tor, Aug 2015 (eb, hc)  WESTERFELD, SCOTT Zeroes (with Margo Lanagan & Debo rah Biancotti), Simon Pulse, Sep 2015 (ya, hc) WOLFE, GENE A Borrowed Man, Tor, Oct 2015 (eb, hc) As always, we hope you enjoy the episode!  Correction: During the podcast Jonathan incorrectly said Linda Nagata's Going Dark was the reissue of the first book in her "The Red" sequence. It's actually the third, with The Red: First Light coming in June, The Red: The Trials in August, and series closer The Red: Going Dark in November. All are worth your attention.

Where (Tor Books)  In a coastal town on the Outer Carolina Banks, David Ribault and Merrill Poulnot are trying to revive their stale relationship. Meanwhile, a slick developer claiming to be related to a historic town hero, Rawson Steele, has come to town and is buying up property. Steele makes a romantic advance on Merrill and an unusual 5am appointment outside of town with David. But Steele is a no-show, and at the time of the appointment everyone in the town disappears, removed entirely from our space and time to a featureless isolated village - including Merrill and her young son. Born into a Navy family, Kit Reed moved so often as a kid that she never settled down in one place, and she doesn't know whether that's a good thing or not. It's a very good thing in its relationship to, Where, in which the entire population of a small island vanishes. As a kid she spent two years in the tidelands of South Carolina-- in Beaufort and on Parris Island, both landmarks on the Inland Waterway. Her fiction covers territory variously labeled speculative fiction/science fiction/literary fiction, with stops at stations in between that include horror, dystopian SF, psychothrillers and black comedy, making her "transgenred." Recent novels are Son of Destruction and, from Tor, Enclave, The Baby Merchant and the ALA award-winning Thinner Than Thou. Her stories appear in venues ranging from Asimov's SF and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction to The Yale Review, The Kenyon Review and The Norton Anthology. Her newest collection is The Story Until Now: A Great Big Book of Stories, from the Wesleyan University Press. She was twice nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award and the Tiptree Award. A Guggenheim fellow, Reed is Resident Writer at Wesleyan University, and serves on the board of The Authors League Fund. Scott O'Connor is the author of the novella Among Wolves, and the novels Untouchable and Half World, which is now out in paperback. Additional work has appeared in Zyzzyva, The Rattling Wall, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, and has been nominated for the 2015 Sunday Times/EFG Short Story Prize. He lives with his family in Los Angeles.

This week we welcome James Morrow, one of SF's premier satirists, whose new novel Galapagos Regained is just out, taking on Darwinism, Victorian religious attitudes, the Book of Mormon, and Morrow's frequent themes of rationalism vs. received belief.  We also touch upon the role of a religious satirist, the Charlie Hebdo assassinations, old SF movies and TV programs, Morrow's recent novellas Shambling Towards Hiroshima and The Madonna and the Starship, and his forthcoming collection Reality by Other Means: The Best Short Fiction of James Morrow from Wesleyan University Press.

Lyn Hejinian is the author of numerous books, including most recently The Book of a Thousand Eyes and The Wide Road, written in collaboration with Carla Harryman. In fall 2012, Wesleyan University Press published A Guide to Poetics Journal: Writing in the Expanded Field 1982-1998, an anthology of works on key issues in poetics first published in Poetics Journal, co-edited by Hejinian and Barrett Watten. And in fall 2013 Wesleyan will republish her best-known book, My Life, in an edition that will include her related work, My Life in the Nineties. In addition to literary writing, editing, and translating, she has in recent years been involved in anti-privatization activism at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 24350]

Lyn Hejinian is the author of numerous books, including most recently The Book of a Thousand Eyes and The Wide Road, written in collaboration with Carla Harryman. In fall 2012, Wesleyan University Press published A Guide to Poetics Journal: Writing in the Expanded Field 1982-1998, an anthology of works on key issues in poetics first published in Poetics Journal, co-edited by Hejinian and Barrett Watten. And in fall 2013 Wesleyan will republish her best-known book, My Life, in an edition that will include her related work, My Life in the Nineties. In addition to literary writing, editing, and translating, she has in recent years been involved in anti-privatization activism at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 24350]

Lyn Hejinian is the author of numerous books, including most recently The Book of a Thousand Eyes and The Wide Road, written in collaboration with Carla Harryman. In fall 2012, Wesleyan University Press published A Guide to Poetics Journal: Writing in the Expanded Field 1982-1998, an anthology of works on key issues in poetics first published in Poetics Journal, co-edited by Hejinian and Barrett Watten. And in fall 2013 Wesleyan will republish her best-known book, My Life, in an edition that will include her related work, My Life in the Nineties. In addition to literary writing, editing, and translating, she has in recent years been involved in anti-privatization activism at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 24350]

Lyn Hejinian is the author of numerous books, including most recently The Book of a Thousand Eyes and The Wide Road, written in collaboration with Carla Harryman. In fall 2012, Wesleyan University Press published A Guide to Poetics Journal: Writing in the Expanded Field 1982-1998, an anthology of works on key issues in poetics first published in Poetics Journal, co-edited by Hejinian and Barrett Watten. And in fall 2013 Wesleyan will republish her best-known book, My Life, in an edition that will include her related work, My Life in the Nineties. In addition to literary writing, editing, and translating, she has in recent years been involved in anti-privatization activism at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 24350]

Lyn Hejinian is the author of numerous books, including most recently The Book of a Thousand Eyes and The Wide Road, written in collaboration with Carla Harryman. In fall 2012, Wesleyan University Press published A Guide to Poetics Journal: Writing in the Expanded Field 1982-1998, an anthology of works on key issues in poetics first published in Poetics Journal, co-edited by Hejinian and Barrett Watten. And in fall 2013 Wesleyan will republish her best-known book, My Life, in an edition that will include her related work, My Life in the Nineties. In addition to literary writing, editing, and translating, she has in recent years been involved in anti-privatization activism at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 24350]

Lyn Hejinian is the author of numerous books, including most recently The Book of a Thousand Eyes and The Wide Road, written in collaboration with Carla Harryman. In fall 2012, Wesleyan University Press published A Guide to Poetics Journal: Writing in the Expanded Field 1982-1998, an anthology of works on key issues in poetics first published in Poetics Journal, co-edited by Hejinian and Barrett Watten. And in fall 2013 Wesleyan will republish her best-known book, My Life, in an edition that will include her related work, My Life in the Nineties. In addition to literary writing, editing, and translating, she has in recent years been involved in anti-privatization activism at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 24350]

Joseph Harrington is the author of Things Come On: (an amneoir) from Wesleyan University Press (2011), earth day suite from Beard of Bees Press (2010) and Poetry and the Public from Wesleyan (2002). Joe's work has appeared in Pinstripe Fedora, Hotel Amerika, Otoliths, Fact-Simile, With+Stand, Cricket Online Review, and P-Queue, amongst others. He teaches at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. He also helps organize the BIG TENT reading series at the fantastic Raven Bookstore in Lawrence. Joe blogs at Blog of Myself. He graciously let me record him on February 10th, 2011, reading from Things Come On, for Episode 012 of the podcast.

Sharon Bryan is a nationally recognized award-winning poet and editor. Her newest collection, Sharp Stars (BOA, 2009), was awarded the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award for 2009. She is also the recipient of the Academy of American Poets Prize, the Discovery Prize awarded by The Nation, and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as other literary prizes. She has published three previous poetry collections, Salt Air and Objects of Affection, both with Wesleyan University Press, and Flying Blind with Sarabande Books. She is the co-editor of Planet on the Table: Poets on the Reading Life (Sarabande), and the editor of Where We Stand: Women Poets on Literary Tradition (Norton). Additionally, she has held positions as poet-in-residence and visiting professor at more than 20 colleges and universities, and is currently the Visiting Professor of Poetry at the University of Connecticut at Storrs, in Storrs, Connecticut.Bryan read from her work on September 24, 2009, in Cornell’s Goldwin Smith Hall. This interview took place earlier the same day.

Versed (Wesleyan University Press)Rae Armantrout has been associated with the Language-centered poets of the eighties, a group often accused of overly cerebral poetry derived from theory. Now, her work is found in the most widely read magazines that publish poetry...

Brenda Hillman has published seven collections of poetry: White Dress (1985), Fortress (1989), Death Tractates (1992), Bright Existence (1993), Loose Sugar (1997), Cascadia (2001), and Pieces of Air in the Epic (2005), all from Wesleyan University Press, and three chapbooks: Coffee, 3 A.M. (Penumbra Press, 1982), Autumn Sojourn (Em Press, 1995), and The Firecage (a+bend press, 2000). She has edited an edition of Emily Dickinson’s poetry for Shambhala Publications, and, with Patricia Dienstfrey, co-edited The Grand Permisson: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood (2003). She teaches poetry at St. Mary’s College in Moraga, California.Hillman read from her work on November 6, 2008, in Cornell’s Goldwin Smith Hall. This interview took place the following day.