“The Doctor and the Saint: The Ambedkar-Gandhi Debate: Race, Caste, and Colonialism”
In this lecture. Arundhati Roy looks at how caste has continued through modern Indian history, and why the words of Ambedkar are necessary today more than ever, showing that caste is the most urgent question if India is to become a world-leading nation.
Literati will be on hand to sell books for the event.
Arundhati Roy is the author of the novel The God of Small Things, for which she received the 1997 Booker Prize. She has written several non-fiction books, including The Cost of Living, Power Politics, War Talk, An Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire, and Public Power in the Age of Empire, and Walking with the Comrades. Roy is the recipient of the 2002 Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Prize.
Ruin: Essays in Exilic Living.
Adrianne Kalfopoulou is the author of Ruin: Essays in Exilic Living, a collection of essays linking meditations on teaching, friendship, motherhood, love, the financial meltdown in Greece, the shared language of politics and advertising, Occupy Wall Street, and the Parthenon Marbles into a relentless interrogation of identity and loss. She lives and teaches in Athens, Greece where she is on the faculty of Hellenic American University. She has taught in the Scottish Universities’ International Summer Schools Program at the University of Edinburgh, and is part of the adjunct faculty in the Creative Writing Program at New York University, and various creative writing workshops in Greece. Her scholarly work has focused on Nineteenth and Twentieth-century American literature, particularly the contributions of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, Toni Morrison and Marilynne Robinson. She is currently at work on a monograph that explores Ralph Waldo Emerson’s influence on Sylvia Plath’s poems.
Brett Bevell, author of Energy Healing for Everyone: A Path to Wholeness and Awakening, will demonstrate simple user-friendly Essene-inspired energy healing techniques from his new book. These simple techniques promote calm inner peace, and can assist in deepening the path toward spiritual awakening. Book signing afterwards.
RC Writers Tea, open to majors and current writing students who are non majors, and current students interested in the writing major. In RC’s Greene Lounge. (Next teas: November 5, December 9)
Andrea Barrett was born in Boston in 1954, grew up on Cape Cod, and later attended Union College, where she graduated with a degree in biology. She began writing fiction seriously in her thirties and published her first novel, Lucid Stars, in 1988. In 1996, she received the National Book Award for her fifth book, Ship Fever, a collection of stories. Barrett received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2001. Her short story collectionServants of the Map was a finalist for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Barrett teaches writing at Williams College and lives in North Adams, Massachusetts, with her husband, photographer Barry Goldstein.
Literati Bookstore will be on-site with select titles available for purchase.
Ann Arbor native Philip Stead releases Sebastian and the Balloon, his newest children’s picture book. Phil wrote and illustrated the book. Phil is the author of the Caldecott winner, A Sick Day for Amos McGee.
Lucy Ives was born in New York City and earned her BA from Harvard College and her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her first collection, the book-length poem Anamnesis (2009), won the Slope Editions Book Prize. She is also the author of the “brief novel” Nineties (2013) and a poetry and essay collection, Orange Roses (2013). Ives won an Iowa Arts Fellowship, as well as a MacCracken Fellowship. She is a deputy editor at Triple Canopy and lives in New York City, where she is completing a PhD in comparative literature at New York University. Aaron McCollough was raised in Tennessee. He was the Librarian for English Literature and Comparative Literature at U-M and now serves as the Assistant Director for Editorial Activities at the University of Michigan Press. His books include Underlight (Ugly Duckling Press, 2012), and No Grave Can Hold My Body Down (Ahsahta Press, 2011). He has a PhD in English Literature from the U-M and an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
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Andrea Hannah lives in the Midwest, where there are plenty of dark nights and creepy cornfields to use as fodder for her next thriller. She graduated from Michigan State University with a B.A. in special education. When she¹s not teaching or writing, she spends her time chasing her sweet children and ornery pug, running, and dreaming up her next adventure. Her most recent book: Of Scars and Stardust.
