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Climate Lyricism: Author Min Hyoung Song in Conversation with Rochelle L. Johnson

Zoom

In Climate Lyricism, Min Hyoung Song articulates a climate change-centered reading practice that foregrounds how climate is present in most literature. Song shows how literature, poetry, and essays by Tommy Pico, Solmaz Sharif, Frank O’Hara, Ilya Kaminsky, Claudia Rankine, Kazuo Ishiguro, Teju Cole, Richard Powers, and others, and others help us to better grapple with […]

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A Conversation with Philip Deloria, Native American Scholar

Concord Museum Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA, United States

The Concord Museum welcomes Philip J. Deloria, Professor of History at Harvard University, for an illuminating and fascinating discussion on Native American history and current trends in the field today. Deloria is the author of Playing Indian (1998), Indians in Unexpected Places (2004), and Becoming Mary Sully (2019). Attend in-person (free for members, $10 non-members) […]

Reckoning with Monuments in the North: A Conversation with W. Ralph Eubanks

Concord Museum Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA, United States

Though there are no statues honoring the Confederacy to be found in Boston and Cambridge, award-winning author W. Ralph Eubanks discusses the historic memorials that obscure the achievements of Black Americans. Join us for a wide-ranging conversation with the Mississippi native on his experience spending a year surrounded by the monuments of the American North […]

Saving Yellowstone: A Conversation with Megan Kate Nelson

Concord Museum Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA, United States

Pulitzer Prize finalist and Civil War historian Megan Kate Nelson tells the vivid story of how, 150 years ago, Yellowstone became the world’s first national park amid the nationwide turmoil and racial violence of the Reconstruction era. A narrative of adventure and exploration, the creation of Yellowstone is also a story of Indigenous resistance and […]

A Family Revealed: From Slavery to Hope

Discovery Museum Discovery Museum, 177 Main St, Acton, MA, United States

Discovery Museum Speaker Series Speaker: Wallis Wickham Raemer, educator, and Reggie Harris, folk singer and social activist Location: This event will be live and in-person at Nashoba Brooks School 200 Strawberry Hill Road, Concord, MA Cost: Free with pre-registration; $5 suggested donation appreciated In an evening of engaging music and conversation with the audience, two […]

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An Evening with Robert Pinsky, Former US Poet Laureate

Concord Museum Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA, United States

Robert, Pinsky, Poet Laureate of the United States from 1997 to 2000 joins us for a reading and conversation on writing, teaching, and poetry’s place in the world. It was said of Robert Pinsky in the New York Times Sunday Book Review, “No other living American poet—no other living American, probably—has done so much to […]