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This is a collection of recorded discussions categorized as “the humanities” from a wide variety of Library events and partnerships. Whenever we gather people to talk about expressions of the human spirit through language, literature, the arts, history, social sciences, philosophy, or the law, we are participating in the humanities. Whenever we use analytical or critical or speculative methods to interpret creative works of art, media, or culture, we are adding to our knowledge of the world. Whenever we use knowledge to ask questions about the undercurrents of society, we are learning that the humanities are about... a little bit of everything.
Highlights
Ona Russell discusses her essay, “In the Tent,” and how writing in her real backyard tent inspired her creativity in the context of “the history of tents” during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Go here to find additional author readings and interviews: The San Diego Decameron Project
Marivi Soliven talks about her story, “Pandemic Bread,” and the culture of baking and cooking “as a response to current events.”
Go here to find additional author readings and interviews: The San Diego Decameron Project
Zoya Sardashti speaks about her work, “To Be Seen & Unseen,” in the Central Library’s Art Gallery exhibition, “Fear No Art: Civic Engagement, Histories, Currencies,” curated by Dr. Lara Bullock.
You can find more “Behind the Scenes” discussions here: On View: Art and Cultural Exhibitions
Nicolas Reveles (Dr. Nic) discusses “Rossini’s Early Life and Times,” as part of the Library’s Opera Insight Series with San Diego’s opera Scholars, especially focusing on entertaining productions of the San Diego Opera.
For more in the Opera Insights Series, see the main page here: Opera Insights Series
George Takei discusses his book, a graphic memoir, They Called Us Enemy, co-written with Justin Eisinger and Steven Scott and illustrated by Harmony Becker, recounting his personal experience as a child in an American concentration camp during WWII.
To learn more about this event with George Takei: 2020 One Book, One San Diego
Brian MacDonald, GeekEd, UCLA, introduces a panel of experts about “creating more space in the narrative world for stories both by and about people with diverse experiences.” GeekEd: Re-Storied: Re-Imagining Creative Privilege. This recording is from the 2020 Comic-Con@Home collection on the Library’s Comic Conference for Educators and Librarians page.
To see more of the Comic-Con@Home panels, visit the Library’s page here: Comic Conference for Educators and Librarians
Dr. Kalenda Eaton, Dr. David Surratt, Hailey Lopez, Robert Hypes, and Alfred Day participate in an important cultural discussion, “GeekEd: Watchmen and the Cruelty of Masks,” from the Library’s 2020 Comic-Con@Home recordings.
To see more of the Comic-Con@Home panels, visit the Library’s page here: Comic Conference for Educators and Librarians
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Funding has been provided by California Humanities and the State of California through the California State Library.