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Okoboji Writers Retreat

Meet with us at the bookshop on Tuesday, September 19th at 6:00 pm for a conversation on river conservation and how these powerful waterways provide much more than just drinking water and recreation. Sally Sierer Bethea will be in conversation with Rebecca Wade of Upstate Forever to discuss Bethea's book, Keeping the Chattahoochee: Reviving and Defending a Great Southern River.  Don't miss out on this evening discussing over 20 years worth of river conservation stories both entertaining and even alarming. 

More info here: https://www.hubcity.org/events/444/keeping-the-chattahoochee-sally-sierer-bethea-in-conversation-with-rebecca-wade

Please join guests for a conversation with Erica Abrams Locklear, author of Appalachia on the Table: Representing Mountain Food and People (University of Georgia Press), and Josina Guess, assistant editor for Sojourners Magazine, to discuss Locklear's book and how long-held preconceptions about Appalachian foodways color our perception of the region and its people.

This event is free and open to the public, but reservations are requested.

RSVP to Leandra Nessel at [email protected]. Books will be available for purchase from the University of Georgia Press and the author will sign copies after the event.

More info here 

This is a hybrid event with limited in-store seating and the option to attend online.

The event is free, but registration is required for both in-person and virtual attendance.

Please click here to register for the VIRTUAL event. The link required to attend will be emailed to registrants prior to the event.

Please click here to register for the IN-PERSON event. Note the important event details on the RSVP form.

This event includes a book signing. If you would like a signed book but can't attend in person, you may order a signed copy online below. If you would like to have your book personalized, please order online or call the store at least two hours before the start of the event. When ordering online, use the comments field to provide a name for personalization, e.g. “To Paul.” NOTE: We do our best to get books personalized when requested but personalization is not guaranteed.

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Join Dr. Barbara Combs for a discussion on how her Bodies Out of Place (BOP) Theory helps dismantle racism.

Racism is complex. In some ways, it is also contradictory. There are structural and historical components of racialized oppression that remain largely unseen to the eye. This is not because they do not exist, but because the racialized social order is so inextricably woven into the fabric of society that it renders it nearly imperceptible. There is also a felt experience of racism that cannot be seen. Considering these constraints, disentangling how anti-black racism works and exposing continuing racial trauma in society is herculean, but we must try. As Gloria Anzaldua writes, "Necesitamos teorias (We need theories) that will rewrite history using race, class, gender and ethnicity as categories of analysis, theories
that cross borders, that blur boundaries-new kinds of theories with new theorizing methods ... And we need to find practical application for those theories (Anzaldua, 1990, p. xxv)." I developed Bodies Out of Place (BOP) Theory in response to that call.

Anzaldua, G. (1990). Hacienda caras, una entrada. In G. Anzaldua (Ed.), Making face, making soul/Hacienda
caras: Creative and critical perspectives by feminists or color (pp. xv-xxviii). San Francisco, CA: Aunt Lute Books

SPONSORED BY THE SOCIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM COMMITTEE

Various events, talks, and a potential signing for Carol Roh Spaulding at the annual Luther College Writers' Festival.