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Recorded on YouTube on 13 October 2021.

Join Noam Chomsky for a talk, then in conversation with E. Tammy Kim on the brutal realities laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic—and the urgent need for an alternative to capitalism.

Nick Estes put recent headlines surrounding the discovery of mass graves of Native children at Canadian residential schools into historical context. The removal of Indigenous children from their communities and families has a long genocidal legacy that persists today, well beyond the boarding school era in Canada and the United States. The attack on Indigenous children is an attack on Indigenous sovereignty and land, and there is an urgency to uphold protections that are under assault by the right-wing, such as the Indian Child Welfare Act. He was joined in conversation with Rebecca Nagle after giving his presentation.

This was a Readings and Conversations event. This event was in partnership with Haymarket Books.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.lannan.org/podcasts/consequences-of-capitalism-211013.mp3

Duration: 1:33:39

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Recorded on YouTube on 05 October 2021.

The 2020 Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize was awarded to Angela Y. Davis for her lifetime achievements as a public intellectual advocating for racial, gender, and economic justice; to Mike Davis for his life’s work as a public intellectual who encourages critical analysis of society in the service of constructing an alternative, post-capitalist future in both theory and practice; and Ruth Wilson Gilmore for a lifetime of achievement as a public intellectual working toward the decarceration of California, the United States, and the world. Join all three, along with acclaimed author Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, for an urgent conversation on abolition, cultural freedom, and liberation.

This was a Readings and Conversations event. This event was in partnership with Haymarket Books.

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Duration: 1:24:17

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Recorded on YouTube on 20 October 2020.

Masha Gessen is the author of eleven books and a staff writer for the New Yorker. In addition to Surviving Autocracy (2020), their recent books include The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (2017), which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction; The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy (2015), about the Boston Marathon bombers; and The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin (2012). They spoke with Anand Giridharadas, who is an editor-at-large for Time magazine, an on-air political analyst for MSNBC, and a visiting scholar at New York University.

This was a Readings and Conversations event. This event was in partnership with Haymarket Books.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.lannan.org/podcasts/gessen-201020-rc.mp3

Duration: 1:20:11

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Recorded on YouTube on 13 August 2020. Yanis Varoufakis is a member of Greece’s parliament and leader of the Greek political party MeRA25, which belongs to the pan-European movement DiEM25. He spoke with Daniel Denvir. This was a Readings and Conversations event. https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.lannan.org/podcasts/varoufakis-200813-rc.mp3 In this episode, Yanis Varoufakis joined us from his home in Greece […]

Recorded by Mr. Heffernan remotely at his teaching office. James Heffernan, Professor Emeritus of English at Dartmouth College, has lectured extensively on James Joyce, particularly Ulysses, which he has covered in 24 lectures for the Teaching Company. His many articles include a close study of Molly’s monologue, and his books include studies of English Romantic […]

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on December 4, 2019.

Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney and assistant professor at Rutgers University. She has served as legal counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives, as a legal advocate for Palestinian refugee rights at the United Nations, and as the national grassroots organizer and legal advocate at the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. She is the author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine. Erakat’s research interests include human rights and humanitarian, refugee, and national security law.

This was a Readings and Conversations event.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/media.lannan.org/podcasts/erakat-191205.mp3

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Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on November 13, 2019.

Eve L. Ewing is a sociologist of education whose research is focused on racism, social inequality, and urban policy, and the impact of these forces on American public schools and the lives of young people. She is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. Her book Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side explores the relationship between the closing of public schools and the structural history of race and racism in Chicago’s Bronzeville community. Her work has been published in many venues, including the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Atlantic, and the Washington Post.

This was a Readings and Conversations event.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/media.lannan.org/podcasts/ewing-191113.mp3

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Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on October 30, 2019.

Deborah Levy, a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, writes fiction, plays, and poetry. Her work has been staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company, broadcast on the BBC, and translated widely across the world. The author of highly praised novels, including Hot Milk and Swimming Home (both Man Booker Prize finalists), The Unloved, and Billy and Girl; the acclaimed story collection Black Vodka; and part one of her working autobiography, Things I Don’t Want to Know, she lives in London. Her latest novel, The Man Who Saw Everything, has been long-listed for the 2019 Booker Prize.

This was a Readings and Conversations event.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/media.lannan.org/podcasts/levy-191030.mp3

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Recorded at the Lannan Meeting House in Santa Fe, New Mexico on October 13, 2019.

Natalie Scenters-Zapico is from the sister cities of El Paso, Texas, USA, and Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua, México. Her first book, The Verging Cities (Center for Literary Publishing 2015), won the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, Great Lakes Colleges Association’s New Writers Award, NACCS Foco Book Prize, and the Utah Book Award. Lima :: Limón, her second poetry collection, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2019.

Scenters-Zapico’s poems have appeared in a wide range of anthologies and literary magazines including Best American Poetry 2015, POETRY, Tin House, Kenyon Review, and more. She is a recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship for Poetry, a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, and a CantoMundo fellowship. Scenters-Zapico is poet in residence at the University of Puget Sound.

This was a Poetry Sunday event.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/media.lannan.org/podcasts/scenters-zapico-191013-read.mp3

In this episode, Natalie Scenters-Zapico was introduced by Michael Wiegers, read from her work, then answered questions from the audience.

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Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on September 25, 2019.

Vijay Prashad is a Marxist historian and journalist. He is the director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, a movement-driven research institution based in Argentina, Brazil, India, and South Africa. He is also chief editor of LeftWord Books, a 20-year-old Marxist publishing house based in New Delhi. Additionally, Prashad is the chief correspondent for Globetrotter and writes a regular column for Frontline (India) and BirGün (Turkey). He has written 25 books, including The Darker Nations: A Peoples History of the Third World and The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South, and has appeared in two films: Shadow World and Two Meetings. For 25 years, he was a professor at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

This was a Readings and Conversations event.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/media.lannan.org/podcasts/prashad-190925.mp3

In this episode, Vijay Prashad talked about his work, then joined in conversation with Melanie K. Yazzie.

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