Being Jewish and Being American
Arnold Friedmann - Emeritus Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst - explains how his immigration to America greatly contribute to his identity, and how being American and being Jewish are quite complementary.
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Kugel and Frijoles: Latino Jews in the United States
How do Latino Jews identify? Can they choose their identity or is it assigned to them? What is it like to be both Latino and Jewish in the United States? On September 17, 2019, author Laura Limonic joined with Eric Lach of The New Yorker in conversation about her fascinating book.
Laura Limonic analyzes the changing construction of race and ethnicity in the United States through the lens of contemporary Jewish immigrants from Latin America. Not easily classifiable in U.S. society, Latino Jews challenge racial and ethnic categories on many levels. Limonic introduces the stories of Latino Jewish immigrants offering new insight with which to understand the diversity of Latinos, the incorporation of contemporary Jewish immigrants, and the effect of ethnicity and race on immigrant assimilation in the United States.
Poetry By Patricia Goedicke
Poetry reading in the Missoula Art Museum, held shortly after the new wing and re-model was completed.
Born Patricia McKenna in Boston, Massachusetts, she grew up in Hanover, New Hampshire, where her father was a resident psychiatrist at Dartmouth College. During her high school years she was an accomplished downhill skier. She earned her B.A. at Middlebury College in 1953, where she studied with Robert Frost. She also studied under W. H. Auden at Young Men's Hebrew Association of New York City in 1955.
She married in 1956 Victor Goedicke, a professor at Ohio University, where in 1965 she completed her M.A. in creative writing and poetry. She divorced in 1968, the same year that while an artist in residence at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, she met Leonard Wallace Robinson. He was a writer for The New Yorker and a fiction editor and book editor at Esquire Magazine. They married in 1971. The couple later moved to San Miguel de Allende in the Mexican state of Guanajuato, where she taught creative writing at the Universidad de Guanajuato. Goedicke and Robinson returned to the United States in 1981, and she became professor at the University of Montana, where she taught until her retirement in 2003.
Her awards and honors include the Rockefeller Foundation Residency at its Villa Serbelloni; a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship; a Pushcart Prize; the William Carlos Williams Prize; the 1987 Carolyn Kizer Prize; the Hohenberg Award, and the 1992 Edward Stanley Award from Prairie Schooner. Her last book was recognized as one of the top 10 poetry books of 2000 by the American Library Association. The Tongues We Speak was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1990.
Goedicke died of pneumonia and a complication of lung cancer, at St. Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences Center in Missoula, Montana.
As the Earth Begins to End: New Poems, poetry (Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2000)
Invisible Horses, poetry (Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1996)
Paul Bunyon's Bearskin, poetry (Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1992)
The Tongues We Speak: New and Selected Poems, poetry (Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1989)
Listen, Love, poetry (Daleville: Barnwood, 1986)
The Wind of Our Going, poetry (Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 1985)
Crossing the Same River, poetry (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980)
The Dog That Was Barking Yesterday, poetry (Amherst: Lynx, 1980)
The Trail That Turns on Itself, poetry (Ithaca: Ithaca House Press, 1978)
For the Four Corners, poetry (Ithaca: Ithaca House Press, 1976)
Between Oceans, poetry (San Diego: Harcourt, 1968)
A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Ultimate Punishment (2003)
Turow was born in Chicago, to a family of Russian Jewish descent. He attended New Trier High School, and graduated from Amherst College in 1970, as a brother of the Alpha Delta Phi Literary Society. He received an Edith Mirrielees Fellowship to Stanford University’s Creative Writing Center, where he attended from 1970 to 1972. In 1971, he married Annette Weisberg, a painter. They divorced 35 years later. He married Adriane Glazier in a private ceremony on May 29, 2016. The officiant at the wedding was humorist Dave Barry.
Scott Turow later became a Jones Lecturer at Stanford, serving until 1975, when he entered Harvard Law School. In 1977, Turow wrote One L, a book about his first year at law school. After earning his Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree cum laude in 1978, Turow became an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Chicago, serving in that position until 1986. There he prosecuted several high-profile corruption cases, including the tax fraud case of state Attorney General William Scott. Turow also was lead counsel in Operation Greylord, the federal prosecution of Illinois judicial corruption cases.
After leaving the U.S. Attorney's Office, Turow became a novelist and wrote the legal thrillers Presumed Innocent, The Burden of Proof, Pleading Guilty, and Personal Injuries, which Time magazine named as the Best Fiction Novel of 1999. All four became bestsellers, and Turow won multiple literary awards, most notably the Silver Dagger Award of the British Crime Writers' Association.
In 1990, Turow was featured on the June 11 cover of Time, which described him as Bard of the Litigious Age.[4] In 1995, Canadian author Derek Lundy published a biography of Turow, entitled Scott Turow: Meeting the Enemy (ECW Press, 1995). In the 1990s a British publisher bracketed Turow’s work with that of Margaret Atwood and John Irving, republished in the series Bloomsbury Modern Library.
Turow was elected the president of the Authors Guild in 2010[5][5] and was previously president from 1997 to 1998.[citation needed] As the Authors Guild president he has been criticized for his copyright maximalist and anti-ebook stance.[6] Turow has often responded that he is not against E-books and does the majority of his own reading electronically. His goal, he said often, is to protect writing as a livelihood.[7]
From 1997 to 1998 Turow was a member of the U.S. Senate Nominations Commission for the Northern District of Illinois, which recommends federal judicial appointments. In 2011, Turow met with Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig to discuss political reform including a possible Second Constitution of the United States; according to one source, Turow saw risks with having such a convention, but believed that it may be the only alternative given how campaign money has undermined the one-man-one-vote principle of democracy.[8]
Turow is a partner of the international law firm Dentons having been a partner of one of its constituents, the Chicago law firm of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal. Turow works pro bono in most of his cases, including a 1995 case where he won the release of Alejandro Hernandez, who had spent 11 years on death row for a murder he did not commit. He was also appointed to the commission considering the reform of the Illinois death penalty by former Governor George Ryan. He was the first Chair of Illinois' Executive Ethics Commission. He served as one of the 14 members of the Commission appointed in March, 2000, by Illinois Governor George Ryan to consider reform of the capital punishment system.[2] Turow also served as a member of the Illinois State Police Merit Board 2000-2002.
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Melungeon
Melungeon is a term traditionally applied to one of numerous tri-racial isolate groups of the Southeastern United States. Historically, Melungeons were associated with the Cumberland Gap area of central Appalachia, which includes portions of East Tennessee, Southwest Virginia, and eastern Kentucky. Tri-racial describes populations thought to be of mixed European, African and Native American ancestry. Although there is no consensus on how many such groups exist, estimates range as high as 200. Melungeons were often referred to by other settlers as of Portuguese or Native American origin.
According to the Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, in his 1950 dissertation, cultural geographer Edward Price proposed that Melungeons were families descended from free people of color and mixed-race unions between people of African ancestry and Native Americans in colonial Virginia.
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Min Jin Lee - DeMott Lecture 2019 - Amherst College
Min Jin Lee, author and writer-in-residence at Amherst College, presented the DeMott Lecture to the incoming class of 2023. In preparation for this event, students were given a copy of her novel Pachinko. The DeMott Lecture, established in 2005 by Alan P. Levenstein ’56 in honor of Benjamin DeMott, seeks to expose incoming students to an engagement with the world marked by originality of thought coupled with direct social action, and to inspire intellectual participation in issues of social and economic inequality, racial and gender bias, and political activism.
SHARP 2019 Amherst
The official trailer of the 27th annual conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing--SHARP (sharpweb.org)--to be held from 15 to 19 July 2019 in Amherst, Massachusetts. The conference theme is Indigeneity, Nationhood, and Migrations of the Book. The conference takes place primarily at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, the flagship campus of the state university system, but also includes events at other venues in Amherst.
Optional post-conference excursions on 19 July will highlight literary sites of Massachusetts and Connecticut.
Further information at (site goes live 15 August 2018).
Special Thanks
• Narrator: Corey Flintoff, former newscaster and international correspondent for National Public Radio
• Music: “ Lanchas para baylar,” from the 18th-century Trujillo del Peru Codex, performed by The Folger Consort
“These pieces demonstrate that very early in the colonial period European traditions and American and African influences were joining and forming a truly American musical style”
--Robert Eisenstein
Mount Holyoke College; Director, Five College Early Music Program; Programming Director, Folger Consort
Thanks to Bob and the Folger Consort for graciously allowing us to use their beautiful recording of this piece, whose hybridity and dynamism epitomize the themes of this conference.
And thus thanks, as well, to Marianne Wald of the Folger Library for bringing this recording to our attention.
Artist
The Folger Consort, Early Modern Ensemble in Residence at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington (administered by the Trustees of Amherst College) in Washington, DC, 2013
folger.edu/consort
Album
Bard CD, “Christmas in New Spain” (2014)
Recorded live at the Folger Shakespeare Library, December 2013
Joined Jul 18, 2018
Ron Unz on the Subprime Mortgage Crisis, The Unz Review, and the Harvard Admissions Scandal - #10
Ron Unz is the publisher of the Unz Review, a controversial, but widely read, alternative media site hosting opinion outside of the mainstream, including from both the far right and the far left. Unz studied theoretical physics at Harvard, Cambridge and Stanford. He founded the software company Wall Street Analytics, acquired by Moody’s in 2006, and was behind the 1998 ballot initiative that ended bilingual education in California.
The Unz Review
The Myth of American Meritocracy - How corrupt are Ivy League admissions?
The Myth of American Meritocracy and Other Essays
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man·i·fold /ˈmanəˌfōld/ many and various.
In mathematics, a manifold is a topological space that locally resembles Euclidean space near each point.
Steve Hsu and Corey Washington have been friends for almost 30 years, and between them hold PhDs in Neuroscience, Philosophy, and Theoretical Physics. Join them for wide ranging and unfiltered conversations with leading writers, scientists, technologists, academics, entrepreneurs, investors, and more.
Steve Hsu is VP for Research and Professor of Theoretical Physics at Michigan State University. He is also a researcher in computational genomics and founder of several Silicon Valley startups, ranging from information security to biotech. Educated at Caltech and Berkeley, he was a Harvard Junior Fellow and held faculty positions at Yale and the University of Oregon before joining MSU.
Corey Washington is Director of Analytics in the Office of Research and Innovation at Michigan State University. He was educated at Amherst College and MIT before receiving a PhD in Philosophy from Stanford and a PhD in a Neuroscience from Columbia. He held faculty positions at the University Washington and the University of Maryland. Prior to MSU, Corey worked as a biotech consultant and is founder of a medical diagnostics startup.
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed on this program are those of the guest(s) and do not necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of the hosts, the Office of the Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation, or Michigan State University.
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Separating Fact from Fiction in the Middle East
On the occasion of the release of Middle East scholar Martin Kramer's new book, The War on Error: Israel, Islam, and the Middle East, the Institute hosted a lively discussion on the nature of proof and bias with the author and historians Benny Morris and Hussein Ibish. The October 21, 2016 event was moderated by Executive Director Robert Satloff.
Martin Kramer is the author of the landmark Washington Institute study Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America, published exactly fifteen years ago. Since then, he has presided over the formation of Israel's first and only liberal arts college, Shalem College, where he served as founding president and continues to teach modern Middle Eastern history. The Institute's longtime Wexler-Fromer Fellow, he had a twenty-five-year career at Tel Aviv University, where he directed the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies.
Benny Morris is the Goldman Visiting Israeli Professor in Georgetown University's Department of Government and professor of history at Ben-Gurion University. He is the author of ten books, including The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem and 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War, which received the National Jewish Book Award. He is currently completing a book on Turkey's relations with its Christian minorities in the late Ottoman and early Republican periods. His exchange with Martin Kramer on events in Lydda in July 1948 appears in The War on Error.
Hussein Ibish is a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, a weekly columnist for the National (UAE), and a monthly contributing writer for the International New York Times. He has appeared three times on Foreign Policy's Twitterati 100, which lists the top must-follow Twitter feeds on foreign policy. The author of What's Wrong with the One-State Agenda? and other books, he holds a doctorate in comparative literature from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Professor Ilan Stavans: Crypto-Jews: To Be and Not to Be
“Crypto-Jews: To Be and Not to Be”: If the Jews, a steadfast people united by a single, never-ending book, are praised for surviving across centuries through a variety of assimilation strategies, crypto-Jews are a unique “people-within-a-people.” From before the fateful 1492 to the present, their presence in Hispanic civilization is at once ubiquitous and discreet, their contribution to science, finances, philosophy, and the arts unquestionable. How does their “revealed secret” work?
Ilan Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor of the Humanities, Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College, the publisher of Restless Books, the host of NPR’s podcast In Contrast, and a columnist for the New York Times en Español. An internationally-renowned essayist, translator, and literary critic who is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, Stavans’ books include On Borrowed Words, Dictionary Days, El Iluminado. He adapted Don Quixote into a graphic novel and is also the editor of The Schocken Book of Modern Sephardic Literature, The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry, and The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature.
The Nov. 7 lecture was sponsored by the Harry Spindel Memorial Lecture Fund.
Cynthia Bourgeault - Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview
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The Rev. Cynthia Bourgeault, Ph.D., is an Episcopal priest, teacher, writer, and internationally acclaimed retreat leader. A student of Fr. Thomas Keating, Bruno Barnhart, Beatrice Bruteau, sand the Gurdjieff Work, she has made her mark exploring Wisdom Christianity and the often overlooked lineage of Christian nonduality. Founding Director of the Contemplative Society in Victoria BC and the Aspen Wisdom School, she now serves as one of the core faculty, together with Richard Rohr, OFM, and James Finley, of the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, NM. When not teaching internationally, she resides in her seaside hermitage on Eagle Island, Maine.
UMass Amherst Symposium on Polarization: Hate in the U.S. Today by Lecia Brooks
Lecia Brooks, outreach director at the Southern Poverty Law Center, presented her talk Hate in the U.S. Today on February 5 at the Symposium on Polarization presented by the UMass Amherst Equity and Inclusion Office.
UMass Amherst, the flagship campus of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the largest public research university in New England, distinguished by the excellence and breadth of its academic, research and community programs. Founded in 1863 and home to nearly 30,000 total undergraduate and graduate students, UMass ranks no. 26 in a field of more than 700 public, four-year colleges across the nation, according to the U.S. News & World Report's latest annual college guide.
UMass Amherst stretches across more than 1,400 acres of land in the historic Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts, providing a rich cultural environment in a rural setting close to major urban centers - campus sits 90 miles from Boston and 175 miles from New York City. The idyllic college town of Amherst is home to hiking, biking, museums, music, theater, history, food, farms and much more. UMass Amherst also joins a local consortium of five nationally recognized colleges, including Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke and Smith colleges.
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The First Lady Speaks at the Museum and Library Services National Medal Awards Ceremony
First Lady Michelle Obama delivers remarks at the White House recognizing this year's winners of the National Medal for Museum and Library Services, May 8, 2014.
Masha Gessen: Where the Jews Aren’t
Masha Gessen, a Russian-American journalist and LGBT activist, has focused her courageous prose on Vladimir Putin, the band Pussy Riot, and the terrorist Tsarnev Brothers. Gessen speaks about Where the Jews Aren't: The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region — her heartbreaking account of the attempt to create a homeland for Jews in the Soviet Far East in the early 20th century, and its implications for Russian Jewish culture today.
Presented on September 22, 2016, by GC Public Programs, the Center for Jewish Studies, and CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies.
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Tyler Cowen on Big Business, Socialism, Free Speech, and Stagnant Productivity Growth - #21
Polymath and economist Tyler Cowen (Holbert L. Harris Professor at GMU) joins Steve and Corey for a wide-ranging discussion. Are books just for advertising? Have blogs peaked? Are podcasts the future or just a bubble? Is technological change slowing? Is there less political correctness in China than the US? Tyler's new book, an apologia for big business, inspires a discussion of CEO pay and changing public attitudes toward socialism. They investigate connections between populism, stagnant wage growth, income inequality and immigration. Finally, they discuss the future global order and trajectories of the US, EU, China, and Russia.
Transcript
Personal Website
Marginal Revolution
Conversations with Tyler (Podcast)
Tyler Cowen | Bloomberg Opinion Columnist
Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero
man·i·fold /ˈmanəˌfōld/ many and various.
In mathematics, a manifold is a topological space that locally resembles Euclidean space near each point.
Steve Hsu and Corey Washington have been friends for almost 30 years, and between them hold PhDs in Neuroscience, Philosophy, and Theoretical Physics. Join them for wide ranging and unfiltered conversations with leading writers, scientists, technologists, academics, entrepreneurs, investors, and more.
Steve Hsu is VP for Research and Professor of Theoretical Physics at Michigan State University. He is also a researcher in computational genomics and founder of several Silicon Valley startups, ranging from information security to biotech. Educated at Caltech and Berkeley, he was a Harvard Junior Fellow and held faculty positions at Yale and the University of Oregon before joining MSU.
Corey Washington is Director of Analytics in the Office of Research and Innovation at Michigan State University. He was educated at Amherst College and MIT before receiving a PhD in Philosophy from Stanford and a PhD in a Neuroscience from Columbia. He held faculty positions at the University Washington and the University of Maryland. Prior to MSU, Corey worked as a biotech consultant and is founder of a medical diagnostics startup.
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed on this program are those of the guest(s) and do not necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of the hosts, the Office of the Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation, or Michigan State University.
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Andrew Hartman: The Culture Wars Then and Now
Steve and Corey talk to Andrew about his new introduction to his book “The War for the Soul of America.” While the left largely won the culture wars, the three wonder whether the pendulum has swung so far left that many liberals are alienated by today’s cultural norms.
Other topics: Was the left’s victory in the debate over the college curriculum pyrrhic? Is identity politics a necessary step in liberation or a problematic slide toward greater division or both? Are current students too sensitive, and easily triggered, to take the fight to the Billionaire class?
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[BONUS] – Left and Right at MSU – #27.5
Andrew Hartman (Faculty Profile)
A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars
man·i·fold /ˈmanəˌfōld/ many and various.
In mathematics, a manifold is a topological space that locally resembles Euclidean space near each point.
Steve Hsu and Corey Washington have been friends for almost 30 years, and between them hold PhDs in Neuroscience, Philosophy, and Theoretical Physics. Join them for wide ranging and unfiltered conversations with leading writers, scientists, technologists, academics, entrepreneurs, investors, and more.
Steve Hsu is VP for Research and Professor of Theoretical Physics at Michigan State University. He is also a researcher in computational genomics and founder of several Silicon Valley startups, ranging from information security to biotech. Educated at Caltech and Berkeley, he was a Harvard Junior Fellow and held faculty positions at Yale and the University of Oregon before joining MSU.
Corey Washington is Director of Analytics in the Office of Research and Innovation at Michigan State University. He was educated at Amherst College and MIT before receiving a PhD in Philosophy from Stanford and a PhD in a Neuroscience from Columbia. He held faculty positions at the University Washington and the University of Maryland. Prior to MSU, Corey worked as a biotech consultant and is founder of a medical diagnostics startup.
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed on this program are those of the guest(s) and do not necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of the hosts, the Office of the Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation, or Michigan State University.
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Religious Freedom: Why Now? (Discussion between Robert P. George and Shaykh Hamza Yusuf)
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March 1, 2012 | This event celebrated the rollout of a new book, Religious Freedom: Why Now? Defending an Embattled Human Right, authored by RFP Associate Director Timothy Shah, under the auspices of the Witherspoon Institute's Task Force on International Religious Freedom, chaired by RFP Director Thomas Farr. The event was co-sponsored by the Religious Freedom Project and the Witherspoon Institute. The keynote address was delivered by Robert P. George of Princeton University. Panels featured a wide range of participants, including noted Muslim scholar Sheikh Hamza Yusuf.
Why now? Religious freedom is under sustained pressure today around the world. In some places, it is fair to say that religious freedom is under siege. The publication of Religious Freedom: Why Now? is a response to that sobering fact. Although scant attention is paid by governments, the academy, or the media, the implications of this crisis—and we contend that it is a crisis—are quite serious. A worldwide erosion of religious freedom is causing large-scale human suffering, grave injustice, and significant threats to international peace and security.
For the last three years, the Witherspoon Institute's Task Force on International Religious Freedom -- under Tom Farr's chairmanship -- has examined the various dimensions of the challenge faced by religious freedom, and has deliberated on the most effective policy responses by the United States and other governments around the world. In May 2011, the Witherspoon Institute convened an unprecedented interdisciplinary meeting in Princeton, New Jersey of more than thirty experts on the subject, from the fields of psychology, sociology, law, philosophy, theology, political science, and international relations. They included academics, policy analysts, and journalists, as well as advocates and adherents from a variety of religious traditions. The result was a focused discussion over two days of the basis of religious freedom, its present condition, and the prospects for its future.
Religious Freedom: Why Now? is the Task Force's considered statement on these matters. Drafted by RFP Associate Director Timothy Samuel Shah, with contributions from the Witherspoon Institute's Matthew J. Franck and the members of the Task Force, it is informed by insights from all these academic disciplines and religious traditions.
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The Value of Liberal Education: Fareed Zakaria in Conversation with Leon Botstein
In his recent book In Defense of a Liberal Education, Fareed Zakaria of CNN considers a question with a long and complex history: what is the value of a liberal arts education today? Leon Botstein, as president of Bard College for the last forty years, has intimately considered the question and put his answers into practice. Zakaria and Botstein, two astute commentators on education and its role in society, engage in a discussion moderated by Sam Tanenhaus, former editor of the New York Times Book Review.
Presented on December 4, 2015, by GC Public Programs and the Center for the Humanities.