John D’Emilio, Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood: Coming of Age in the Sixties (Author Talk)
John D’Emilio, Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood: Coming of Age in the Sixties (Author Talk)
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JOHN D’EMILIO is emeritus professor of history and gender and women’s studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and a National Endowment of the Humanities Fellow; he was a finalist for the National Book Award for Lost Prophet, which won the American Library Association's Stonewall Book Award for nonfiction. D’Emilio was inducted into the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame in 2005 and was named Chicagoan of the Year by the Chicago Tribune in 2004. Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood is D’Emilio's coming-of-age story in which he takes readers from his working-class Bronx neighborhood to an elite Jesuit high school in Manhattan to Columbia University and the political and social upheavals of the late 1960s. He shares his personal experiences of growing up in a conservative, tight-knit, multigenerational family and how he went from considering entering the priesthood to losing his faith and coming to terms with his same-sex desires. Throughout, D’Emilio outlines his complicated relationship with his family while showing how his passion for activism influenced his decision to use research, writing, and teaching to build a strong LGBTQ movement. In person and livestream. RSVP required; see website. Left Bank Books.
Left Bank Books, 399 N. Euclid Ave, St. Louis, 63108
Jared Sexton Yates, Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis (Author Talk)
Jared Sexton Yates, Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis (Author Talk)
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Author, podcaster and political analyst Jared Sexton Yates will be in conversation with author Sarah Kendzior. Midnight Kingdom is an ambitious account of how white supremacist lies, religious mythologies and poisonous conspiracy theories built the modern world and threaten to plunge us into an authoritarian nightmare. To fully understand these strange and dangerous times, Sexton takes a hard look at our nation’s history: namely, the abuses committed by those in power and the comforting stories that shaped the way the West has viewed itself up to the present. Left Bank Books.
Left Bank Books, 399 N. Euclid Ave., Saint Louis, 63108
What Good Is Higher Education for Our Cities? – 2023 Faculty Book Celebration
Featuring keynote speaker Davarian Baldwin, the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies, Trinity College, and author, “In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities are Plundering Our Cities”
What Good Is Higher Education for Our Cities? – 2023 Faculty Book Celebration
Featuring keynote speaker Davarian Baldwin, the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies, Trinity College, and author, “In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities are Plundering Our Cities”
The publication of a monograph or significant creative work is a milestone in the career of an academic. The Center for the Humanities commemorates this achievement annually during the Faculty Book Celebration. The event recognizes Washington University faculty from across Arts & Sciences by displaying their recently published works and large-scale creative projects and inviting two campus authors and a guest lecturer to speak at a public gathering.
