{"id":247,"date":"2014-03-24T07:33:07","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T14:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amstcommunitystudies.org\/?p=247"},"modified":"2014-03-24T07:34:28","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T14:34:28","slug":"lawrence-weschler-at-umbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amstcommunitystudies.org\/?p=247","title":{"rendered":"Lawrence Weschler at UMBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/amstcommunitystudies.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/450.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-250\" alt=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/amstcommunitystudies.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/450-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/strong><strong>Humanities Forum<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, March 25 | 4:30 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u201cThe Fraught Crossroads: Where Class, Race, Sex and Violence Converge across American History\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Lawrence Weschler, author<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>7th Floor,\u00a0<a title=\"Albin O. Kuhn\u00a0Library\" href=\"http:\/\/artscalendar.umbc.edu\/about\/albin-o-kuhn-library-and-gallery\/\">Albin O. Kuhn Library<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Sponsored by the Dresher Center for the Humanities. Co-sponsored by the Department of American Studies and the Orser Center for the Study of Place, Community, and Culture.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Using assemblage artist Edward Kienholz\u2019s harrowing 1970 lynching tableau\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.louisiana.dk\/uk\/Menu\/Exhibitions\/Past+exhibitions\/Kienholz+%2F+Five+Car+Stud\">Five Car Stud<\/a><\/em>\u00a0as a point of departure,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lawrenceweschler.com\/\">Lawrence Weschler<\/a>\u00a0explores the ways in which race has served as the radioactive core of American history, continually warping the potential for ordinary class-based politics and accounting for all manner of perverse American exceptionalisms (the subject of Weschler\u2019s current work-in-progress).<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence Weschler was for over twenty years (1981-2002) a staff writer at\u00a0<em>The New Yorker<\/em>, where his work shuttled between political tragedies and cultural comedies. He is a two-time winner of the George Polk Award (for Cultural Reporting in 1988 and Magazine Reporting in 1992) and was also a recipient of Lannan Literary Award (1998).<\/p>\n<p>His books of political reportage include\u00a0<em>The Passion of Poland<\/em>\u00a0(1984);\u00a0<em>A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers<\/em>\u00a0(1990); and\u00a0<em>Calamities of Exile: Three Nonfiction Novellas<\/em>\u00a0(1998).\u00a0His \u201c<em>Passions and Wonders<\/em>\u201d series currently comprises\u00a0<em>Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin\u00a0<\/em>(1982);\u00a0<em>David Hockney\u2019s Cameraworks\u00a0<\/em>(1984);\u00a0<em>Mr. Wilson\u2019s Cabinet of Wonder\u00a0<\/em>(1995);\u00a0<em>A Wanderer in the Perfect City: Selected Passion Pieces\u00a0<\/em>(1998)\u00a0<em>Boggs: A Comedy of Values\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0(1999);\u00a0<em>Robert Irwin: Getty Garden<\/em>\u00a0(2002);\u00a0<em>Vermeer in Bosnia<\/em>\u00a0(2004); and\u00a0<em>Everything that Rises: A Book of Convergences<\/em>\u00a0(February 2006).\u00a0<em>Mr. Wilson<\/em>\u00a0was shortlisted for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and\u00a0<em>Everything that Rises<\/em>\u00a0received the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.<\/p>\n<p>Admission to this event is free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Humanities Forum Tuesday, March 25 | 4:30 p.m. \u201cThe Fraught Crossroads: Where Class, Race, Sex and Violence Converge across American History\u201d Lawrence Weschler, author 7th Floor,\u00a0Albin O. Kuhn Library Sponsored by the Dresher Center for the Humanities. 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