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Updated April 7 with an additional listing, Death’s Futurity, April 20; and more information on Continentes, Intercambios e Hibridaciones (in English, Continents, Exchanges and Hybridizations), April 21.

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Salvador Plascencia, author of The People of Paper (2006), is the next guest in the , in person 205 .

Named a best book of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times and Financial Times, The People of Paper has been translated into a dozen languages and widely anthologized and adopted in Chicanista, postmodern and design courses throughout the country.

Plascencia is an assistant professor of creative writing at Harvey Mudd College.

He is among a number of authors participating in book talks and readings at �ٺ���Ƶ in April, in person and-or virtually.

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  Unmaking the Bomb: Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility
• By Shannon Cram, assistant professor, Science and Technology Studies, University of Washington Bothell
• WHAT: Book talk sponsored by the Cultural Studies Graduate Group and the Critical Militarization, Policing and Security Studies Research Cluster, with funding from the �ٺ���Ƶ Humanities Institute
• WHEN: 4-6 p.m. Thursday, April 6, in person and remote
• WHERE: 3201 and

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  Constructing a Nervous System
• By Margo Jefferson
• WHAT: The author will give a reading from her latest memoir, Constructing a Nervous System, and have a conversation with Zinzi Clemmons, assistant professor of English. Followed by a question-and-answer session.
• WHEN: 4:30-5:30 p.m. Monday, April 10, remote
• WHERE:
• OTHER INFORMATION: Organized by the Department of English and Creative Writing Program, and co-sponsored by the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum and the Department of African and African-American Studies
• For more information: Contact Zinzi Clemmons by email.

Jefferson, a professor of writing at the Columbia University School of the Arts, received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography in 2016 for her memoir Negroland and is also the author of On Michael Jackson (2006). She received the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1995 for her work for The New York Times.

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• By Victor Hernández Cruz, Puerto Rico-born, Nuyorican-raised and Morocco-based poet
• WHAT: Book release party and reading, presented as an Imagining America Happening
• WHEN: 5-7 p.m. Tuesday, April 11, in person
• WHERE: International House,
• OTHER INFORMATION: Co-sponsored by the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Office of Public Scholarship and Engagement, and Global Affairs
• For more information: srmaroney@ucdavis.edu

This event celebrates Cruz’s new book, a botanical historical search for the trees that once lined his Puerto Rican horizon and the music that shaped his life. The poems travel across languages, sounds and perceptions; they escape ethnic confinement into the possibilities of international cultural fusion across the Caribbean and Mediterranean seas. Cruz will be introduced by long-time family friends, author and educator Herb Kohl and his daughter Erica Kohl-Arenas of �ٺ���Ƶ-based .

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  Solidarity Across the Americas: The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and Anti-imperialism
• By Margaret M. Power, professor, Illinois Institute of Technology
• WHAT: Book talk sponsored by the Department of History, Hemispheric Institute on the Americas and the Latin American History Workshop
• WHEN: Noon-1:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 12, in person
• WHERE: 2203 (Andrews Conference Room)
• For more information: Contact Lisa Materson by ema

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  Queering Mesoamerican Diasporas: Remembering Xicana Indígena Ancestries
• By Susy J. Zepeda, associate professor of Chicana and Chicano studies

Zepeda will discuss her first book in two campus book talks one month apart:

• WHAT: The author in conversation with Gina Aparicio, visual artist and art professor, Sierra College. Sponsored by the �ٺ���Ƶ Humanities Institute.
• WHEN: 5:30-7 p.m. Wednesday, April 12, in person (wine and cheese reception, 5:30 p.m.; book talk, 6 p.m.)
• WHERE: International House,

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• WHAT: Book talk sponsored by the Hemispheric Institute on the Americas
• WHEN: Noon-1:30 p.m., Friday, May 12, in person
• WHERE: 2203 (Andrews Conference Room)
• OTHER INFORMATION: Lunch provided for participants.

From the publisher’s description: “Zepeda highlights the often overlooked yet intertwined legacies of Chicana feminisms and queer decolonial theory through the work of select queer Indígena cultural producers and thinkers. By tracing the ancestries and silences of gender-nonconforming people of color, she addresses colonial forms of epistemic violence and methods of transformation, in particular spirit research.

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  Death’s Futurity: The Visual Life of Black Power
• By Sampada Aranke, Ph.D. ’13, assistant professor, Department of Art History, Theory and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; and director, Mellon Archives Innovation Programs at the Rebuild Foundation, Chicago. She co-curated the exhibition on display through June 25 at the .
• WHAT: Book launch and signing, in a program that also will include a conversation between the author and Essence Harden, a visual arts curator and program manager at the California African American Museum and an independent arts writer.
• WHEN: 4:30-6 p.m. Thursday, April 20
• WHERE:

From the publisher: “In Death’s Futurity, Sampada Aranke examines the importance of representations of death to Black liberation. Aranke analyzes posters, photographs, journalism and films that focus on the murders of Black Panther Party members Lil’ Bobby Hutton, Fred Hampton, and George Jackson to construct a visual history of the 1960s and 1970s Black Power era. ... By foregrounding the photographed, collaged, filmed and drawn Black body, Aranke demonstrates that corporeality and corpses are crucial to the efforts to shape visions of a Black future free from white supremacy.”

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The Hemispheric Institute on the Americas’ Book Talk Series announced a program with Alejandro Tortolero Villaseñor, professor of history and philosophy, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa, ��é�澱����; and a visiting fellow at the HIA. His research focuses on agrarian history and the economic history of natural resources in ��é�澱����, especially water.

He will be discussing a forthcoming volume for which he served as co-editor, Continentes, Intercambios e Hibridaciones: Transferencias Té���Ծ������� y Culturales en la Historia Rural Entre Europa y ����é�������� (Siglos XVI al XX), published by La Editorial Unimagdalena and El Colegio de Michoacán.

The program is scheduled from 12:10 to 1:30 p.m. Friday, April 21, in 2203 (Andrews Conference Room). Lunch will be provided for participants.

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