When You Move, I Move: Video Screening
As part of the Peace, Justice and Human Rights Initiative , Florida Atlantic University is hosting a video screening of “When You Move, I Move,” an arts-informed research project. The video explores Serena Hoermann’s spoken word workshop facilitated last month in Miami. During this workshop, writers and community members came together to respond to displacement pressures in ethnic enclaves in Miami, Florida. The project asks, in ethnic enclaves, how do
“Monumental History” Book Club on “The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory”
The Department of History at Florida Atlantic University, in partnership with the Boca Raton Public Library, is hosting a community book club focused on historicizing Confederate Monuments. Even in the 21st century, Confederate memorials have the power to stir the passions of both opponents who believe they symbolize a racist past, and defenders who believe they represent southern heritage. It is more important than ever to accurately understand the history
“Monumental History” book club on Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America
The Department of History at Florida Atlantic University, in partnership with the Boca Raton Public Library, is hosting a community book club focused on historicizing Confederate Monuments. Even in the twenty-first century, Confederate memorials have the power to stir the passions of both opponents who believe they symbolize a racist past, and defenders who believe they represent southern heritage. It is more important than ever to accurately understand the history
Meet Author Toni Jensen: A reading and conversation
The Department of English at Florida Atlantic University is hosting award-winning writer Toni Jensen. The Métis author of both fiction and memoir will read from Carry, a memoir-in-essays about gun violence, land, and indigenous women’s lives, followed by a Q & A with the audience. A National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship recipient in 2020, Jensen has published essays in Orion, Catapult and Ecotone. She is also the
Only in Florida! Your Story, Yourself
Florida history isn’t something that just happens to other people. Join Dr. Caren Neile to learn how to tell your own story and that of your family, Based in part on Dr. Neile’s book Only in Florida (History Press), you will learn how to tell your own story and that of your family, in this workshop. Caren S. Neile, Ph.D., MFA, has taught storytelling studies at Florida Atlantic University since
Yiddish Tangos
Due to growing concerns about COVID19, “Yiddish Tangos,” the main event of the YI Love Yiddishfest 2021, will also be available to view LIVE online, as well as in person. Virtual audiences worldwide can join this event with a tax deductible contribution in ANY amount. This LIVE concert of “Yiddish Tangos” with Maestro Aaron Kula and his Klezmer Company Jazz Orchestra will be presented by yilovejewish.org in association with the
Meet Author Rion Amilcar Scott: A reading and conversation
Join the Florida Atlantic University Department of English as they welcome writer Rion Amilcar Scott for a reading from his latest book, The World Doesn’t Require You, and an engaging conversation about his writing process and his life as a writer. Scott is an award-winning writer whose work has been published in places such as The New Yorker, The Kenyon Review, Crab Orchard Review, Best Small Fictions 2020 and The
Community Civics & Democracy Lecture Series – Lecture #7 – Ideological Polarization
Nova Southeastern’s NSU Lifelong Learning Institute Civics & Democracy Series is free and open to the community. Lecture 7 is the final lecture of this 8-parts series and will focus on Ideological Polarization. The lecture will explore two periods of high political and ideological polarization in American history: the Antebellum period prior to the Civil War and the politics of the 21st century. The emphasis will be on what happens
Community Civics & Democracy Lecture Series – Lecture #6 – The Power of Protest
Nova Southeastern’s NSU Lifelong Learning Institute Civics & Democracy Series is free and open to the community. Lecture six of this eight-part series will explore “The Power of Protest.” Using the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s as its model, this lecture will focus on the power of protest to bring about change — and its limits in doing the same — with a special emphasis on voting
Community Civics & Democracy Lecture Series – Lecture #5 – Contested Elections
Nova Southeastern’s NSU Lifelong Learning Institute Civics & Democracy Series is free and open to the community. Lecture 5 of this 8-part series will explore Contested Elections. Using the example of Bush v. Gore and the 2000 Presidential election as its model, this lecture will focus on what happens when elections are close – so close that it is unclear who is the winner. To receive the Zoom links, please
