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Matt discusses Chinua Achebe's landmark novel Things Fall Apart with Yawa Agbemabiese (Bard Highschool Early College, DC) and Carla Stephens (Bard Queer Leadership Project, Borough of Brooklyn Chair for History and Culture at Bard Microcollege Brooklyn Public Library). 

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Bard Sequence professors Rosie Jayde Uyola (BHSEC Bronx), Paul Gilmore (Plainfield High School, NJ), and Andrew Worthington (Orange High School, NJ) discuss Marx and Engels' Communist Manifesto. 

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Today, three students from the Bard Sequence program discuss Marx and Engels' seminal text: The Communist Manifesto. 

Anderson Morocho is from Orange High School in Orange, NJ. Dominick Cruz attends Bronx Envision Academy in Bronx, NY. David Ixcuna hails from Plainfield High School in Plainfield, NJ. 

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Bard Sequence students Tito Oshuntolu and Kimora James respond to Gilgamesh and to the Bard Sequence Podcast. 

Tito Oshuntolu attends Orange High School in New Jersey and Kimora attends Thurgood Marshall Academy Public Charter High School in Washington DC. 

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Matt and Shana Russell delve into the unlikely pairing of Gilgamesh and Roald Dahl's Matilda. 

Shana Russell is a professor at Bard High School Early College, Newark where she teaches Seminar, literature, and electives in anything from Afrofuturism to the Literature of Newark. 

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In which our intrepid panelists make connections between horror films and Mary Shelly's seminal horror text. 

Featuring Rosa Schneider, Katherine Bergevin, and Matt Park. 

Content Warning: Between 1:12 and 1:14  a stage adaptation of Frankenstein which features sexual assault is discussed. There are no graphic descriptions, but anyone who does not want to engage with this content will want to skip. 

Spoiler Warning: Spoilers for the film M3gan as well as some much older movies. 

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The Bard Sequence explores Frankenstein with the help of Ben Bagocious (Bard Sequence), Kevin Doyle (Bard Sequence), Katherine Bergevin (Columbia University, Keats-Shelley Association of America), and Rosa Schneider (Bard Sequence, Urban Academy, Bronx). 

Key topics include sexuality, science and technology, shame, otherness, and exclusion. 

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The Bard Sequence explores humanity's oldest epic, Gilgamesh, with help from Shana Russell (Bard High School Early College Newark), Nico Veroli (Bard Sequence) and Matt Park (Bard Sequence). 

Key conversations touch on gender and sexuality, urbanism, and the historical context for the epic.