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SUMMARY:United We Read: Creative Writing Faculty and Graduate Student Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:The UWM Creatuve Writing Program Graduate Student-Faculty Series: United We Read will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Friday\, November 14 at Boswell Book Company (2559 N. Downer Avenue) with Sam Wingfield-Karpowitz\, Sophie Nunberg\, Kurt Olsson\, and Prof. Katharine Beutner. This event is free and open to the public.  \nPlease register to attend at: uwmunitedwereadboswellmke.eventbrite.com
URL:https://uwm.edu/letters-science/event/united-we-read-creative-writing-faculty-and-graduate-student-reading-series/
LOCATION:Boswell Book Company\, 2559 North Downer Avenue\, Milwaukee\, WI\, 53211\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts and Culture,Public,UWM Campus Events
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SUMMARY:Book event @Boswell Books: with Jason Puskar author of "The Switch : An Off and On History of Digital Humans"
DESCRIPTION:Boswell welcomes UWM Professor of English Jason Puskar for an event featuring his latest work\, The Switch\, in which he considers how the development of binary switching\, the telegraph to the touchscreen\, has transformed everyday life and changed the shape of human agency. \nUse https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jason-puskar-author-of-the-switch-an-in-person-boswell-event-tickets-781640587037?aff=oddtdtcreator to register for the event and/or order your copy of The Switch. \nPuskar’s latest book traces a technology that has transformed life for billions of people: the binary switch. Puskar contends that there is no human activity as common as pushing a button or flipping a switch – a deceptively simple act. Far more than a technical history\, The Switch offers a cultural analysis of how reducing so much human action to binary alternatives (off or on\, one or zero\, this or that) has profoundly reshaped modern society. \nMark Goble\, author of Beautiful Circuits\, says: “Deeply ambitious and sophisticated… Puskar invites us to think more seriously about what happens almost every time we touch one of our devices and turn it on or swipe or click. From the technologies at our fingertips to the vastly larger networks of politics and language that they operate and represent\, The Switch provides a fascinating cultural history of how we have made the modern world\, and been remade in turn\, by the simplest of human actions and the connections they enable.” \nJason Puskar is author of Accident Society: Fiction\, Collectivity\, and the Production of Chance. Puskar earned a PhD in English and American Language and Literature from Harvard University as well as a MPhil in English Literature from the University of Oxford. He is a Professor at UWM.
URL:https://uwm.edu/letters-science/event/book-event-boswell-books-with-jason-puskar-author-of-the-switch-an-off-and-on-history-of-digital-humans/
LOCATION:Boswell Book Company\, 2559 North Downer Avenue\, Milwaukee\, WI\, 53211\, United States
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SUMMARY:Mafia Literature - a discussion of "Tina\, Mafia Soldier"
DESCRIPTION:Boswell Books hosts an evening with UWM Professor of Italian Robin Pickering-Iazzi for a conversation about her latest work\, the first English translation of Maria Rosa Cutrufelli’s classic of Italian feminist mafia literature about a dangerous\, enigmatic young gangster pushing the boundaries of gender and propriety. \nGreat for fans of classic mafia literature like “The Godfather” and “Donnie Brasco”\, Pickering-Iazzi’s beautifully rendered translation offers readers a groundbreaking exploration of gender identity and clear-eyed presentation of an unseen side of the mafia. At just eight years old\, Tina watched her father murdered in cold blood. Now a teenager\, she terrorizes her hometown of Gela\, having made it her mission to join the mafia\, an organization traditionally forbidden to women as made members. Nicknamed ’a masculidda\, or “the tomboy\,” Tina has taken charge of her own gang\, and is notorious for her cruelty and reckless disregard for societal expectations. \nPickering-Iazzi’s translation offers a fascinating look into a specific moment in queer history: a crypto-trans narrative set in a time when Italian society was incredibly conservative. A beautiful translation of a landmark literary achievement by one of Italy’s feminist icons. \nRobin Pickering-Iazzi is author of “The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature: Life Sentences and Their Geographies” and translator of work such as the novel “Suspicion” by Laura Grimaldi and “Mafia and Outlaw Stories in Italian Life and Literature”.  \nPreregistration requested and you can order a copy of “Tina\, Mafia Soldier” too. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/robin-pickering-iazzi-translator-of-tina-mafia-soldier-a-boswell-event-tickets-491821680887
URL:https://uwm.edu/letters-science/event/mafia-literature-a-discussion-of-tina-mafia-soldier/
LOCATION:Boswell Book Company\, 2559 North Downer Avenue\, Milwaukee\, WI\, 53211\, United States
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SUMMARY:Creative Writing Program Graduate Student-Faculty Reading Series: United We Read
DESCRIPTION:Readings of creative work by three graduate students and one faculty member: Cassandra Bruner\, Sass Denny\, Camilla Lee\, and Professor Rebecca Dunham. \nIn person or live stream on YouTube at https://youtu.be/SnlrBMGcuzI
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