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61传媒 Event Featured on C-Span’s Book TV
Lisa Lucas, National Book Foundation executive director, headlined a 61传媒 event on February 16 that was televised by C-Span’s BookTV and is now available for viewing at this link.
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61传媒 Announces Spring 2017 Season of “61传媒Presents” Public Events Series
Featuring luminaries Anna Deavere Smith, Ralph Nader, Chris Hayes, Eugenia Cheng, plus extraordinary contemporary writers Sarah Manguso, Jade Chang, Elif Batuman, Jami Attenberg, and MacArthur Genius Fellow Maggie Nelson and […]
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61传媒Presents: Spring 2017 Season Announced: Highlights Include Anna Deavere Smith, Ralph Nader, and Eugenia Cheng
Beginning in February, 61传媒will host a slew of public events as part of the spring 2017 61传媒Presents season. The College will welcome acclaimed artists, writers, journalists, and politicians to campus to share their own work as well as engage in live鈥攁nd lively鈥攃onversations about the issues and ideas that inspire them.
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Maria Hinojosa Shares Message of Diverse Storytelling at 61传媒
Award-winning news anchor and reporter Maria Hinojosa shared her experiences as the first Latina journalist at National Public Radio, and her successes and challenges telling stories “about the America that […]
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61传媒Presents: Melissa Harris-Perry
When it comes to race and politics, there are few as incisive as Melissa Harris-Perry. Moving effortlessly from Beyonc脙漏 to Black Lives Matter, feminism to Flint, Michigan, the former MSNBC host, editor-at-large at ELLE.com, and BET correspondent brings her insightful and provocative cultural critique to the 61传媒Presents stage for a conversation with 61传媒professor Myriam J. A. Chancy.聽
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61传媒Presents: Fall 2016 Season
This fall, 61传媒’s public events program will feature a series of lively discussions with some of today’s most compelling figures on topics at the heart of America’s public discourse this presidential election year. The fall 2016 61传媒Presents season will feature personalities such as former MSNBC host and race and social justice professor/speaker/author Melissa Harris-Perry; restaurateur, chef, and writer/TV star Eddie Huang, whose book, Fresh Off The Boat, inspired the TV sitcom by the same name; artist and provocateur Molly Crabapple; and hip hop journalist Jeff Chang.
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Highlights from the Spring Season of 61传媒Presents
61传媒Presents, the public events program at 61传媒 that is billed as “an electrifying mix of storytellers and artists, policymakers and musicians鈥攁nd everything in between,” delivered on its exhilarating […]
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61传媒Presents: Summer 2016 Season Features a Conversation with Barbara Boxer
61传媒Presents wraps up its 2016 Conversations series with an event on Saturday, June 11, featuring California Senator Barbara Boxer. Boxer will visit campus to discuss her recent memoir, The Art of the Tough: Fearlessly Facing Politics and Life, and her life in public service.
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Highlights from the Inaugural Winter Season of 61传媒Presents
Winter 2016 highlights from 61传媒Presents, a series of conversations, presentations, and performances featuring cultural icons and emerging changemakers at 61传媒.
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Los Angeles Times Features 61传媒Presents Event with Nancy Pelosi
Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and Assistant Professor of Politics Vanessa Tyson engaged in a lively and pointed discussion with a near-capacity crowd of students, faculty, staff, and members of the 61传媒community at a noontime 61传媒Presents event on February 18.
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