Humanities New York Readings and Discussion Series: Place and Story: Nine Ways to Cross a River
Join in a series of readings and discussion as together we’ll explore the ways in which humans and the natural world co-exist within the context of American environmental myths past and present. Through a combination of fiction and memoir, we’ll consider the ways our relationship to landscape transcends borders, politics, race, and socio-economics--and the ways in which it brings inequities into sharp relief.
Facilitator: Kelly McMasters, Assistant Professor of English + Director of Publishing Studies, Hofstra University
Nine Ways to Cross a River: Midstream Reflections on Swimming and Getting There from Here
by Akiko Busch
A luminous, meditative account of nine swims across eight of America’s great rivers that celebrates a river’s power to calm, restore, and connect.
*Special Guest Visit by the author
This is an excerpt from Akiko Busch's book Nine Ways to Cross a River:
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/08/magazine/08swimming-t.html
Presented by Hofstra Cultural Center and the Department of English
Sponsored by a Humanities New York Vision/Action Grant.
This event is FREE and open to the public.
Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Time: 6:30-8 p.m.
Location: Virtual Event
Advance registration required. Please register by using the RSVP for this Event link.
or email the Hofstra Cultural Center at hofculctr@hofstra.edu or visit hofstra.edu/culture
Registrants will be sent a link to join prior to the event.
Fall 2020 Series:
Tuesday, October 6, 6:30-8 p.m. Speaking of Nature by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Tuesday, October 13, 6:30-8 p.m. A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid
Tuesday, October 27, 6:30-8 p.m. The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham
Tuesday, November 10, 6:30-8 p.m. Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains by Kerri Arsenault
Tuesday, December 1, 6:30-8 p.m. Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
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- Cultural Center
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- HCLAS
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Hofstra Cultural CenterPhone: 516-463-5669
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