Department of English

Award-winning journalist Abe Streep (‘04) will be in conversation with esteemed sports writer, Alexander Wolff to discuss his first book, Brothers on Three: A True Story of Family, Resistance, and Hope on a Reservation in Montana (Celadon Books, 2021). The book follows the boys basketball team from Arlee High School as they defend their state championship. Streep reports on the place of basketball in the lives of members of the Flathead Reservation’s Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes.

Lecture “ ‘Theater in South Asia: Shakespeare on the Hindi Stage” by Kanchan Verma, Assistant Professor of Hindi, Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi.

In 2012 at the age of 15, against all odds, Claressa Shields from Flint, Michigan, won the first Olympic gold medal in women’s boxing. Come watch “T-Rex,” the award-winning film about Shields and talk with the filmmaker, Sue Jaye Johnson about the making of the film, about Flint, and about the young woman who has proved herself, in and out of the ring, to be the world’s fiercest teenager.

Student from this fall’s Sophomore Seminar in the Liberal Arts will present their posters depicting what they have learned about “What is the Good Life, and How Do I Live It?” Refreshments will be served.

Sophomore Seminar in the Liberal Arts Poster Presentation Students in the course titled “What is the Good Life, and How do I Live it?” reflect on their work this semester. Open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

Bill Dodd presents an examination of original Shakespearean texts—so-called “bad quartos” printed during Shakespeare’s lifetime—for fascinating traces of original theatrical practices.

New England Review poetry editor Rick Barot will read from and discuss his new collection of poetry, Chord (2015). Barot’s first collection of poetry, The Darker Fall (2002), received the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry. His second collection, Want (2008), was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards and won the 2009 Grub Street Book Prize. His poems and essays have appeared in the New Republic, Poetry, the Kenyon Review, the Virginia Quarterly Review, and others. Rick Barot was born in the Philippines and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area.

A talk and discussion with award-winning public radio producer Joe Richman, founder of Radio Diaries (including NPR’s pioneering Teenage Diaries and Mandela: An Audio History).

Shaun King is a writer and civil rights activist noted for his use of social media to promote religious, charitable, and social causes, including the Black Lives Matter movement. The title of his talk is “Why we have to say black lives matter”.

Sponsored by Meet the Press and The Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity

Meet the Press: Join Ryan D’Agostino ‘97, editor-in-chief of Popular Mechanics magazine and former articles editor at Esquire, as he talks about his journey through the New York media landscape.