Homecoming: Mason’s Alumni Reading Thursday, September 10 at 7 pm via Crowdcast About the Event Come back to George Mason (virtually) this fall as alumni of the Creative Writing MFA Program gather to read selections from their latest prose and poetry. Jessica Anthony’s all-in-one ghost story, love story, and political satire, Enter the Aardvark, explores […]
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Spy Pilot: The Cold War Controversy – Live Event Only Friday, October 2nd 12 p.m. via Crowdcast About the Event In Gary Powers, Jr.’s book Spy Pilot: Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 Incident, and a Controversial Cold War Legacy, a son uses declassified documents to dispel misinformation about his father, the pilot famously shot down
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The Culture of Calamity Friday, September 4 at 12 pm via Crowdcast About the Event How do communities react when faced with epidemics, earthquakes, and other disasters? Using significant historical calamities ranging from the collapse of the early seventeenth-century Jamestown colony, ending with the deadly Johnstown flood of 1889, historian Cynthia A. Kierner explores European
Unmasking the “Angel of Death” Friday, September 18th 12 p.m. via Crowdcast About the Event Part biography and part true-life medical mystery, Mengele: Unmasking the “Angel of Death” is a swift-moving, engrossing, and balanced look at a man who came to represent the horrors of the Nazi death camps. David Marwell cuts through the layers
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Race, Work, and Healthcare in the New Economy: A Conversation with Adia Harvey Wingfield Wednesday, September 16 at 4:30 pm via Crowdcast About the Event Adia Harvey Wingfield’s book Flatlining: Race, Work, and Health Care in the New Economy offers a rigorous intersectional analysis of the American healthcare industry in the New Economy. Wingfield argues
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Patriot of the World: Travel and Discovery with Robin Hemley Thursday, September 17th 7 p.m. via Crowdcast About the Event Witty and pulsing with energy, Robin Hemley’s book, Borderline Citizen: Dispatches from the Outskirts of Nationhood, focuses on his journey across the world, and the way such a trip impacts the mind of its traveler.
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